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Making your Early Years STEM
In a typical school year, Kindergarten Inquiry works best outdoors, where natural cycles can spark great questions and discoveries. The onset of distance learning requires us to find new ways to capture our students’ curiosity by bringing the inquiry home. This webinar will take you through a process of adapting available resources for both Inquiry …
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Framing Learning: Problem Solving and Innovation in Kindergarten
The Ontario Kindergarten Program is viewed through the lens of Four Frames of Learning. In this session, participants will dig deep into one of these frames: Problem Solving & Innovation. What does the frame look like in our classrooms? How can we facilitate purposeful, inquiry-based learning to strengthen problem solving skills? How can we document, …
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Not “Just” Playing: Inquiry in the Early Years
In this session, we will dig in and celebrate the authentic & meaningful learning that happens every day in Kindergarten through play. A blend of both theory and practical classroom examples will encourage participants to think carefully about how observed behaviours, conversations, and actions that occur in play-based learning relate directly to the Ontario Kindergarten …
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Connecting Learners in the Great Outdoors
In this webinar, participants will be learning how to – Take an inquiry stance during outdoor learning – Observe, teach and assess program expectations in a range of curricular areas in a variety of environments (forest, playground, etc…) – Support children in becoming connected with, and caretakers of, the outdoors – Create conditions for success …
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Beyond the Hour of Code
Completed the Hour of Code? Ready for a next step. In this session participants will explore having kids code to create content in a sandbox environment that stimulates natural curiosity and creativity. Participants will explore tools that gives kids the freedom to create content, and to demonstrate their thinking and understanding! Topics will range from …