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Need a fun and engaging end of unit assignment? Use this ready-to-print assignment that provides everything you need for your students to get off and running on creating a board game for the class to plan, as a final assignment (and review) of any Science or Social Studies (History, Geography) unit. This resource can work in any Junior, Intermediate or even Senior class. You may want to co-create the success criteria and “look fors” with your class, to provide further differentiation and to ad

Wondering how to make student inquiry work through in the classroom - or via distance learning - for French Immersion? This bundle of resources gives you a full plan to introduce and implement a huge chunk of the Strand B Grade 6 Social Studies or Grade 8 Geography curriculum expectations in Ontario. It will work using blended learning in the classroom or if teaching solely online, with an LMS such as Google Classroom, BrightSpace or something similar. Students will need good access to techn

Teaching grade 8 FI in Ontario? This Confederation project for French Immersion uses cross-curricular inquiry learning in a rich task to encourage students to explore the connection between a topic of interest to them and Canadian Confederation. It encourages the use of multi-media and higher order thinking skills to create a "Heritage Minute" style video based on the research and learning done by each group of students. Subjects that may be evaluated include Drama, History and French (sugges

Teaching Grade 8 History in Ontario within a French Immersion program? Here are several projects, learning activities and tools that will help you keep your Big Ideas and assessment of learning goals balanced with the day to day activities. Please note: This is NOT a complete program, but does include several large assessment components. For more information, please do visit the descriptions and previews/thumbnails of the individual products within this bundle. If you like this product, ple

This research project for an Early Society includes everything you need for your students to research and prepare a presentation (bristol board, Google Slides or PowerPoint, or in any other format) on an ancient civilization of their choice. Includes a list of Success Criteria and a matching 4-level rubric based on the Ontario Curriculum. Digital versions of several components are included (Google Drive, as well as one PowerPoint file). This product works well with the FREE Ancient Civilizati

Ce produit est pour des classes d’immersion. Ces débats ont été conçus pour le deuxième domaine de Géographie en Ontario, pour la huitième année. Cette activité vous donnera une évaluation qui comprend la géographie et le français. Ce paquet contient une version adaptée de mon produit de débat pour l'immersion en général. Principalement, la page de résolutions proposées pour le contenu de Géographie est complètement unique, mais le reste a beaucoup en commun entre les deux paquets. Il y a au

Need a fun and engaging end-of-unit assignment for Science OR Social Studies in French Immersion? Use this ready-to-print assignment that provides everything you need for your students to get off and running on creating a board game in groups for the class to play, as a final assignment (and review) of any unit in sciences ou les études sociales. This resource can work in a Junior, Intermediate, or even Senior class. You may want to co-create the success criteria and “look fors” with your clas

This is a combination of a Debate package for French immersion on general topics of interest to students and proposed topics connected to Strand B of Ontario's Geography expectations. Each resource is 33 pages in total. What's different between the two? Page full of topics, listed in debate resolution format for each, along with an optional version including relevant links to an online (French language) article or report for each resolution listed, as a starting point/provocationFrench-only su

This package for Enfants de la rébellion, the Quebecois author Susanne Julien's historical fiction novel about the Rebellions in Lower Canada in 1837-1838 integrates your Grade 7 History or 7/8 split grade History class with French immersion expectations. It can also be used in as a novel study in High School FSL courses, especially if you wish to include a Canadian female author. The resource includes suggested vocabulary and activities, comprehension and other types of questions (such as t

Use this Social Studies research project for an Early Society after teaching the class as a whole about one or more ancient civilization. This has everything you need for your students to research and prepare a class presentation (bristol board, Google Slides or PowerPoint, or in any other format) on an ancient civilization of their choice, including a list of possible choices, created with equity and cultural representation in mind. Includes a list of Success Criteria and a matching 4-level ru

Pour cette tâche écrite, les élèves accéderont aux informations et concepts déjà étudiés en classe pour évaluer des choix et exprimer une opinion au sujet des inégalités qui existent dans le monde. J’ai créé cette épreuve pour la deuxième unité du curriculum de géographie 8ième (le Développement et le niveau de vie à l’échelle mondiale). Le produit comprend une liste de sujets suggérés d’aborder avant d’assigner le test écrit, des critères d’évaluation pour le français ainsi que la géograph

This set of final assignment options allows the French immersion teacher to evaluate students’ comprehension through an Arts-related product (Drama or Visual Art) as well as in written form, following the exploration in class of the short novel “Les Bas du pensionnat” (which is the French translation of Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton). Looking for a way to talk about the Inuit people & Canada’s residential school system in a middle school? The book that these pr

Perfect for dual track immersion schools! This Canadian Confederation project for French Immersion (French, History, Media and Drama) and standard English language History & Drama classes uses inquiry learning in a rich task to encourage students to explore the connection between a topic of interest to them and Canadian Confederation. It is cross curricular in that it encourages multi-media higher order thinking skills to create a "Heritage Minute"-style video based on the research and learn

Use this free Graphic Organizer in Early Societies to 1500 CE in Grade 4 Ontario Social Studies. It works for any Ancient Civilization in your Social Studies or World History class to help your students organize information to be able to more easily compare and contrast two or more societies of the past. Complete one together with the class. Students complete one copy for each civilization studied or researched, allowing them to organize what they have learned in the same format so they can more

Do you wish to more easily embed inquiry learning, at a deeper level, across the subjects you teach? This bundle includes 2 sets of posters (colour vs. a mostly black and white ink-saving option) as well as single handouts for student use related to the inquiry process and generating questions (Q-Chart). I designed them for my own grade 7-8 classroom, based on the Ontario curriculum. These products are also listed separately if you prefer to use just one component of the bundle. There are also

Canadian Confederation Video Project This Confederation project for uses inquiry learning in a rich task to encourage students to explore the connection between a topic of interest to them and Canadian Confederation. It is cross curricular in that it encourages multi-media higher order thinking skills to create a Heritage Minute style video based on the research and learning done by each group of students. Subjects that may be evaluated include Drama, History and Language (suggested evaluation

This fun Social Studies Assignment allows students to make a lift-the-flap booklet showing their place in the world as part of your French Immersion Social Studies or Geography class, or when looking at la francophonie in Core French. Created for Ontario, it also includes ALL of the Canadian Provinces and Territories, so it will work for teachers anywhere in Canada. It includes both a blank option to encourage more creativity from your students and an option completed with images to represe

This product for French Immersion History (Canadian History) classes will get your students up and moving while showing that they understand various aspects of factors that contributed to Canadian Confederation in 1867 and the preceding period. It's kind of a “three corners” activity, requiring all students to participate and offering the opportunity for the class to ask questions and to clear up any confusion prior to an end of unit assessment. It includes Teacher Notes for several suggested wa

This French immersion personal timeline assignment allows students to use 21st century competencies to demonstrate their understanding of primary and secondary sources, push and pull factors for migration, as well as historical importance as a concept of historical thinking. Students will use the FREE app "Timeline" from Read, Write, Think to create a visual representing the events they choose to include in their Timeline. They may gather their own photos from home or elsewhere, select appropria

Great to use during Women's History Month (March/October) or Black History Month (February) or as part of a Canadian Icons unit in an integrated French Language class! This resource can also be used with a higher grade or advanced Core French class, with scaffolding and a slower pace (Grades 7 - 10.) This is a set of French Immersion classroom activities to help your students explore and understand the picture book “ Voici Viola Desmond : Biographie en images.” It includes: 20 comprehension