Learning Opportunities Repository
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Agency in the School Approvals
The next Project Approval Committee Meeting is set for August 2018.
Yukon College
NEW Title of Project: Codemakers Target Audience: Grades 3-7 Contact: Dan Anton or Sam Finton Email: sam.finton@gmail.com Phone Number: 867-668-5258 Approval in place until May 2020 Yukon Workers Compensation Health & Safety Board
NEW Title of Project: Mental Health Target Audience: Grades 6 and 7 Contact: Natalie Thivierge Email: Natalie.Thivierge@gov.yk.ca Phone Number: 867-332-1056 Approval in place until May 2020 NEW Title of Project: Head First Target Audience: Grades 4-7 Contact: Vanessa Stewart Email: vanessa.stewart@gov.yk.ca Phone Number: 867-332-1058 Approval in place until May 2020 Title of Project: Safety Online Target Audience: Grades 7-10 Contact: Natalie Thivierge Email: Natalie.Thivierge@gov.yk.ca Phone Number: 867-332-1056 Approval in place until November 2018 Yukon Invasive Species Council
NEW Title of Project: Invasive Species of the Yukon Target Audience: Grade 10 Science Contact: Jennier Line Email: jen_line@northwestel.net Approval in place until May 2020 NEW Title of Project: Invasive Species of the Yukon Target Audience: Grade 11 Science Contact: Jennier Line Email: jen_line@northwestel.net Approval in place until May 2020 Title of Project: Weed Warrior: Invasive Plant Program Target Audience: Grade 4 Curriculum Connections Contact: Johanna Goossens Email: johannagoossens2908@gmail.com Approval in place until December 2019 Yukon Environment
Title of Project: Water Week Presentations Target Audience: Grade 2, 3, 4, and 7 Curriculum Connections Contact: Tyler Williams Email: Tyler.Williams@gov.yk.ca Approval in place until February 2020 Old Log Church Museum
Title of Project: Using a Lightbox to Tell a Story Target Audience: K-9 Curriculum Connections Contact: Kaitlin Normandin Email: logchurch@klondiker.com Approval in place until February 2020 Old Log Church Museum
Title of Project: Musical Instruments During the Gold Rush Target Audience: K-8 Curriculum Connections Contact: Kaitlin Normandin Email: logchurch@klondiker.com Approval in place until February 2020 Michelle Eshpeter, Yoga Instructor (Community Resource Person)
Title of Project: Kids Yoga Program Target Audience: K-7 Curriculum Connections Contact: Michelle Eshpeter Phone Number: 867-689-1279 Email: missmewellness@gmail.com Approval in place. Jill K Ford, Nutritionist (Community Resource Person)
Title of Project: Grade 8/9 Nutrition + Wellness Education Target Audience: Grades 8-9 Curriculum Connections Contact: Jill K Ford - Down to Earth Wellness Phone Number: 867-333-9662 Email: jill@getdowntoearthwellness.com or jillkford86@gmail.com Approval in place. People First Society of Yukon
Title of Project: The "R" Word Target Audience: Grades 7-9 (Middle School) http://www.peoplefirstofcanada.ca/school-language-project/ Curriculum Connections http://www.peoplefirstofcanada.ca/school-language-project/ Contact: executive@ycommunityliving.com Web: www.ycommunityliving.com Web: https://www.facebook.com/PeopleFirstSocietyOfYukon/ 2 year extension granted: Approval in place until November 2019 LDAY
Title of Project: Aurora: Maximizing Learning Potential Target Audience: Grades 10 - 12 Curriculum Connections Contact: Emma Stinson, Aurora Workshop Coordinator Email: aurora@ldayukon.com Approval in place until February 2019 Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Title of Project: Social Smarts - Privacy, The Internet, and You Target Audience: Grades 6-9 Curriculum Connections Contact: Diane McLeod-McKay, Ombudsman, Information and Privacy Commissioner, and Public Interest Disclosure Commissioner Email: info@ombudsman.yk.ca Approval in place until February 2019 Blood Ties Four Directions
Title of Project: Decreasing Stigma & Discrimination Contact: partnership@bloodties.ca Approval in place until February 2019 Let's Talk Science Outreach
Title of Project: Forensic Investigation Target Audience: Grade 10 Science Curriculum Connections and Notes Title of Project: Crime Lab Target Audience: Grades 5-6 Curriculum Connections and Notes Title of Project: Bone Zone Target Audience: Grades 5-6 Curriculum Connections and Notes Contact: MacKenzie Downing Email: mkdowning7@gmail.com Approval in place until November 2018 LDAY
Title of Project: Mindset Target Audience: Grades 4-6 Curriculum Connections and Notes Title of Project: Mindset Target Audience: Grades 7-9 Curriculum Connections and Notes Contact: Chris Cybulskie Email: ldayclientservices@northwestel.net Approval in place until November 2018 BYTE: Empowering Youth Society
Title of Project: Healthy Relationships Target Audience: Grades 7-12 Health Title of Project: Healthy Minds Target Audience: Grades 7-12 Health and 10-12 Career Title of Project: Safe Partying Target Audience: Grades 7-12 Health Title of Project: From First Job to Dream Job Target Audience: Grades 10-12 Career Contact: Shelby Maunder Email: ed@yukonyouth.com Phone Number: 867-667-7975 Approval in Place until August 2018 Yukon Energy
Title of Project: Yukon Energy Classroom Presentation Information Approval in place until December 2018 |
Other
See below and right for free resources, posters, competitions, speakers and other external opportunities that can support classroom instruction.
Operation Veteran
Operation Veteran was founded by Dr. Paul Kavanagh, in association with the Canadian War Museum, to honour and raise awareness of veterans and their sacrifices. Through Supply Line, one component of Operation Veteran, teachers across Canada can arrange to borrow a First World War Discovery Box. Bring the Canadian War Museum into you classroom. This learning kit contains authentic and reproduction artifacts related to Canadian military history, along with everything you need to lead engaging hands-on activities and lessons with your students. Make a donation? The Truth About Drugs Education Package
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/request-info/drug-free-world-education-package.html for the free package. Career Education
NEW The Learning Partnership
Take Our Kids to Work will take place on Wednesday, November 14th, 2018. It is an annual event in which Grade 9 students spend the day in the workplace of a parent, relative, friend or volunteer experiencing and learning about the world of work. Take Our Kids to Work Day supports career exploration and career readiness. Experiencing a “day in the life” of a professional within a workplace allows students to explore the world of work and helps them make informed educational decisions. Other options? Anytime with these virtual reality workplace tours or Real Talk videos with real people giving real career advice, the stuff they wish they knew in high school. |
NEW You Be The Chemist Challenge
The 9th Regional Challenge will be in Whitehorse on Tuesday, October 16, 2018 More Info: http://youbethechemist.ca/ybtc-youbethechemist.ca/ybtc-challenges/ Call: 905-332-8777 Yukon Arts Centre (YAC) Wants To Hear From Teachers
Programming coordination is underway. For the upcoming season, the YAC is looking to connect with teachers to find opportunities for support of the implementation of the curriculum and to bring up entertainment for youth in Yukon. Below is a link to a 3 to 5 minute survey to help YAC gain potential programming insights. The YAC is equally interested in Whitehorse schools and schools in the communities. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/785PH83 NEW United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Associated Schools Network (ASPnet)
Guide for School Membership UNESCO seeks to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture. UNESCO ASPnet links together students, teachers and educational institutions around a common goal: “to build peaceful and sustainable societies in the minds of children and young people”. Network on:
Interested? NEW World's Largest Lesson
Teach and learn about Sustainable Development and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development 
Rediscover Your School Grounds
For school grounds month, rediscover your school (or local park) through the eyes of your kids. Find a new space to play. Shake things up and move outside the box! NEW Canadian Student Debating Federation (CSDF)
National Seminar CSDF secured a travel grant from Heritage Canada to offer free travel to the national seminar in Quebec City from Sept. 26 - Oct. 1, 2018 for up to 2 Yukon students and 1 adult chaperone. Cost to participants for the week would only be $650/person. More info: Tanya.Lewis@gov.yk.ca Science on Stage Canada is excited to invite you to share your engaging and creative STEM teaching approaches with other educators from across Canada.
SoSC06 festival is August 9-12, 2018 is Saskatoon, Saskatchewan the city of festivals. We will be examining what works for teaching math and science; including integrating and honoring First Nations ways of knowing. The festival will provide opportunities for sharing, learning about sensor probes, training with the Canada Lightsource, and collaboration with fellow educators. Cindy Barlow is heading the Community Volunteer Income Tax Program with Canada Revenue Agency. They will be coming to Whitehorse soon and would like to connect with some senior students. They will be here to create awareness about the program and about filing your income tax.
Interested? Call 1-604-587-2963. Book: Think Your Way to an Early Debt-Free Life
offers numerous novel and feasible strategies for high school students to do better financially. Author Winston Newbury explains this by chronicling his own move from relative poverty in rural Newfoundland to a successful and comfortable early debt-free life. Receive a copy of Moving Forward: A Collection About Truth and Reconciliation
Moving Forward is a collection of short stories, poems, essays, and art created by First Nations, Inuit, and Métis authors and artists on the topics of truth and reconciliation as they relate to residential schools. Supreme Court Rules in Favour of Yukon First Nations in Peel Watershed Dispute
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/peel-watershed-supreme-court-canada-decision-1.4426845 Yukon's new and draft curriculum affords even more opportunities for deeper learning through the development of competencies, like critical thinking, communication, and social responsibility in subject areas like Language Arts, Social Studies, and Civics, that serve to support the engagement of students in authentic tasks that connect learning to the real world; and, in particular, this historic event. 
Experiences Canada
Experiences Canada funds youth exchanges across Canada. Almost half of our exchanges are bilingual exchanges and the other half are thematic. Some of the learning themes are history and heritage, environment, geography, Indigenous cultures, music and sports. Mapping the Way
Mapping the Way is public education initiative aimed at raising awareness and understanding of the Yukon Final and Self-Government Agreements. The initiative is a partnership between the 11 Self-Governing Yukon First Nations, the Council of Yukon First Nations, and the governments of Yukon and Canada. Mapping the Way has a number of resources (videos, stories, podcasts, timelines on history of land claims negotiation, etc) that can be used in classrooms and would be a helpful additional to any lesson plans on First Nation governance or Yukon history. New Children's Book: 'Yara, My Friend from Syria'
This book is about a Syrian girl's first day of school in Canada. It depicts her mixed emotions, as she is happy to be in school again but sad to be away from home. Look Inside This Book Order This Book Youth for Human Rights: Making Human Rights a Global Reality Education Package
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/edukitform.html for the free package. The Way to Happiness: A Common Sense Guide to Better Living Educator Resource Kit
http://www.thewaytohappiness.org/educators-kit-request.html for the free kit. Discover the Universe.ca Astronomy Training Program to support teachers.
http://yukonastronomicalsociety.com/ |