Understanding a learning activity
Learning goals and Success criteria
Each learning activity includes Learning goals and Success criteria:
- Learning goals – What are you going to learn today?
- Success criteria – How do I show what I have learned?
3-part learning activities
The 3-part learning activities are building blocks to learning. The three parts of learning include:
- Minds On – Let’s get energized for learning!
- Action – Let’s learn something new!
- Consolidation – Let’s show what we learned!
Consider how you will record your work as you journey through these learning activities.
Navigating tabs
When you come across the following type of activity, with one or more tabs, you can press on each tab to explore information about something!
Primary, grades 1 to 3
Tumbleweed is hiding!
Oh dear, where can Tumbleweed be?
Tumbleweed is hiding in these shrubs!
Now, to greet Tumbleweed press the ‘Say hi to Tumbleweed!’ tab.
Hi Tumbleweed!
Tumbleweed loves healthy snacks like carrots. Thank you!
Junior, grades 4 to 6
The topic sentence
Supporting details
Concluding sentence
Intermediate, grades 7 to 8
- Brainstorm ideas
- Narrow ideas
- Develop an inquiry question
- Create a timeline and plan
- Search for reliable information or interview people with knowledge of the topic
- Identify and use graphic and multimedia resources
- Record sources used and information gathered in a form that makes it easy to understand and retrieve
- Organize your ideas using a graphic organizer
- Prioritize and refine your research
- Present your findings