Physical Education

Cochrane and Area Schools: ATB Fit for Life Days

ATB is sponsoring admission to ALL drop-in programs on the first Monday of every month until February 2013 at Spray Lake Sawmills Family Sport Centre (SLSFSC) in Cochrane.

FortisAlberta's Safety Star Elementary School Grant Opportunity

The Safety Star school grant program gives elementary schools in our service territory the chance to win $2,500, which can be used for any school improvement project! Applying is easy - simply tell Fortis how your school keeps your students, teachers, and other staff safe, whether you're leaving or playing! You can write a short story, paint a picture, do a photo collage or a short video - whatever will help your school standout and help us determine who wins. A panel of judges will select 10 Safety Star schools. Whether you're a teacher, a parent, or a student, you can enter on behalf of the school. The deadline to enter is Friday, May 25, 2012.

ArtsEdge

External Collections: Since the Kennedy Center’s opening in 1971, schoolchildren, parents and educators have turned to us as the nation’s premiere cultural resource. Embracing this responsibility, the Kennedy Center instituted ARTSEDGE in 1996 as its educational media arm, reaching out to schools, communities, individuals and families with printed materials, classroom support and Internet technologies. Of the eleven million people who participate in Kennedy Center Education Department programming each year, four million do it through ARTSEDGE resources. The site is visited each day by more than can be held if every theater in the Kennedy Center complex was filled to capacity. Find lessons on dance, literary art, media arts, music, theater, and visual arts.

Content Without Borders

External Collections: Content Without Borders is an open access repository service powered by EQUELLA. This publicly accessible repository promotes and provides access to resources contributed by academic institutions and repositories from around the world.

Nakiska School Programs

Nakiska’s school programs are designed to incorporate and emphasize snow safety and the importance of outdoor recreational activities as part of a healthy balanced lifestyle. They have instructional programs have been designed with the school curriculums in mind and are easily linked to wellness, biology and other science programs. Downoad the School Resource Guide for 2011-2012.

Canada's Sports Hall of Fame-Educational Programs

Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame is now open at Canada Olympic Park, featuring 12 galleries with 50 hands-on interactives, a 120-seat theatre, a collection of more than 95,000 artefacts and an Education and Resource Centre where students and teachers can experience our preserved sporting history, celebrate the contribution of sport to society, and be inspired by our nation’s sporting heroes.

PBS Teachers

External Collections: PBS Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12 educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. They provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets**, and interactive games and simulations. **Some of the video is unavailable in Canada at this time. However, the rest of the resources on the site work well in Canada.

VC-Elementary: Class Stuffed Animal Mascot Exchange

 

FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

External Collections: FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the US federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly. Get new resources delivered to you several times a week: sign up for the FREE RSS or get the entire FREE database in XML. FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies.

Curriki

External Collections: Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of 'curriculum' and 'wiki' which is the technology we're using to make education universally accessible. We're a community of educators, learners and committed education experts who are working together to create quality materials that will benefit teachers and students around the world.

Curriculum 21 Clearinghouse

External Collections: Curriculum 21 is the outgrowth of the work of a dynamic group of educators worldwide attempting to help colleagues transform curriculum and school designs to match the needs of 21st century learners. Curriculum 21 is a division of Curriculum Designers whose goal is to provide a full range of resources and services to all educators and schools involved in the journey of Curriculum Mapping. Clearinghouse is an interactive listing of web 2.0 tools which teachers and students have found most useful, sorted by topic.

SchoolWax TV

external collection: SchoolWAX TV was designed with schools, students, teachers, and parents in mind. You will only find educator approved videos on SchoolWAX TV so everyone can learn in a safe and comfortable environment. SchoolWAX TV is the perfect resource for students who are working on their homework or just need a little extra help on any given subject. Teachers can use the animations and videos to capture their students’ attention and enrich classroom lessons! Watch, share, and upload.

COPS for Kids Safety

The Canadian Police Association believes in supporting today’s youth and helping ensure their safety. As a partner in public service, the CPA has designed the Cops for Kids Safety program to help teachers and parents give our children the tools to Be Smart and Be Safe in our world today. The program is offered free of charge and has been designed to fit within Grade 1 and 2 Phys Ed / Healthy Living curriculum. Participation is optional.

Center for Applied Special Technology

External Collections: CAST is a nonprofit research and development organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through Universal Design for Learning. Founded in 1984 as the Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST has earned international recognition for its innovative contributions to educational products, classroom practices, and policies. Its staff includes specialists in education research and policy, neuropsychology, clinical/school psychology, technology, engineering, curriculum development, K-12 professional development, and more.

Wonderopolis

External Collections: Visit Wonderopolis.™ It’s a place where parents seek and nurture a brighter world for their children through the power of discovery, creativity, learning and imagination. Wonderopolis™ is brought to life by the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL). Wonderopolis engages and inspires families in the pursuit of education and learning together.

BBC Learning

External Collections: The BBC has been committed to learning since its very first schools broadcast in 1924. In September 2010, the BBC announced a new direction for its learning strategy. The underlying ambition is to inspire a life full of learning for everyone. From now on, all BBC Learning content will be expected to deliver explicit learning outcomes which they've split into three groups: * Learning to Know – is about acquiring knowledge and understanding * Learning to Do – covers gaining skills, confidence and competence * Learning to Develop – is about helping people grow as individuals and members of communities

Daily Physical Activity Reference Guide

Artifact: Interactive Reference Guide: This guide has been created as a quick reference guide for teachers, school staff, administrators, and community workers looking for information on Daily Physical Activity (DPA). It is intended to be used as a directory for credible Canadian DPA information, resources, and activities for students. Users are connected to many examples of DPA information with the click of a mouse.

Connexions

External Collections: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute: * authors create and collaborate * instructors rapidly build and share custom collections * learners find and explore content At Connexions we believe that educational resources should be free for anyone. That's why we house one of the largest repositories of open educational resources (OER) in the world, enabling the creation, sharing, modification, and vetting of content accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime via the World Wide Web. And that's why all materials are housed free of charge in a variety of formats. Content is accessible not only online, but in downloadable PDF and EPUB formats, as well as being available through a print-on-demand option. Connexions has pioneered digital education since 1999, and continues to develop a first-class product, making it the first choice among educators and learners alike.

Education Research Complete

External Collections: the most authoritative online resource for education research. This massive file offers the world's largest and most complete collection of full-text education journals. It is a bibliographic and full-text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. If prompted, username: rvsd password: research

Online Reference Center

External Collections: Use these databases to locate a plethora of information in multiple areas of study. Includes Advanced Placement Source, Alberta Source, Amazing Animals of the World, The Atlas of Canada, Bookflix, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Reference Centre, Culturegrams, Early Canadiana Online, EBSCO host, eLibrary Canada, eLibrary elementary, Grolier Online Passport, History Study Center, Novelist, Opposing Viewpoints, Peel's Prairie Provinces, ProQuest Learning Literature, Science in Context, Stats Canada, Teaching Books, and World Book.