For our Six Cs of Education Unit we have chosen Gru in Despicable Me (.47) as one of our ways to represent creativity. In the 47 second clip below Gru will “use imagination when creating a plan to develop an entrepreneurial project”. In the clip below Gru shares with his Minions how he plans to steal the…
For our Six Cs of Education Unit we have chosen Monsters University (3:45) as one of our ways to represent collaboration. Collaboration or teamwork as it is often referred to can sometimes be a major challenge for educators. As students are more and more engrossed in their own devices they can find working together in person a…
In this Non Verbal Communication example mini-lesson, there’s no dialogue, but, we can understand the message just by observing body language and tone.
We just posted a French version of our Growth Mindset posters. Check it out! As “Growth Mindset” becomes more and more of a buzzword in our classrooms and professional learning communities, it becomes a continuing struggle to find French resources about character, perseverance and recognizing that failure is actually learning. We teach in Ottawa, Ontario…
Citizenship is about participating in your community and making it better. But, how do we teach that? We just published our “Exploring the Six Cs Unit” lesson on Citizenship, and I gotta be honest. I’m super hyped about this one. (Yes, yes, I know. I was excited about the last lesson about Character Education as…
For our Six Cs of Education Unit we have chosen If the World were 100 (2:28 in length) represent citizenship. This video breaks down keys areas of what is happening in the world if the total population of the world were just 100. This quick two and a half minute video opens up so many conversations…