Parent Resources Early Years k-4

• http://education.alberta.ca/media/445745/kindcath.pdf

Also see Educating Your Child Prenatal to Post Secondary & Usefulness of Education Sites (Emphasis on Alberta Curriculum)

LA & Social Studies Projects Using Local History Books

Several local history books are on the Internet and provide a good source for LA and Social Studies projects. for an example of a LA project see the K-12 LA Christmas Projects & Index post. Social Studies projects are especially relevant to grades 1, 2, 4 and 7 curriculum. The Faith & Tenacity Project demonstrates what can be done with digital files from a local history book. Using the PDF and Picture files stories about pictures can be created using a simple cut and paste method. Enlarged versions of the pictures are also available to look at details and links can be made to pictures of histrical buildings to show how they have changed.  Educational projects are also been done using the Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Hills of Hope (West of Stony Plain) and St. Albert history books.

Comment on projects that you know of using name/url to link and identify websites that you recommend or  Email: factsc@gmail.com

School Blogs

Graminia
Alberta Social Studies Network (Grade Four)

Towards Common Educational Values in Alberta

In this post we are attempting to compare values from various sources to come up with a common set of values, this could be used as part of the dialogue on education in the province but is not officially part of that dialogue at present. To initiate the dialogue we are developing links to values as posted on school websites. You can add your links using the name/url identification option when posting a comment to the post.  Other comments related to common values are welcome.

Usefulness of Education Sites (Emphasis on Alberta Curriculum)

 The following links are to sites which have additional links

• Kid-friendly sites
  
• LA & Social Studies Projects Using Local History Books
• Education 2.0 from Telus Newsletter 
• http://learningservices.gsacrd.ab.ca/ 
• http://www.psd70.ab.ca/psd/content/students/ 
• http://www.stachs.ca/pages/student.htm (High School)
  
• http://www.studygs.net/ 
• http://education.alberta.ca/students.aspx 
• http://www.learnalberta.ca/Home.aspx 

Comment on sites visited as to their grade level, usefulness and relevance to the Albert curriculum.  If it is a site for parents and education at home indicate that in your comment.  Use the name/url option to identify and link to the site.  If the site is not listed in the above links, indicate that in your comments.

FACTS’ School Digital Heritage Projects

FACTS’ (Family and Community Twining Society’s) vision for SDHPs (School Digital Heritage Projects) is:

To provide support to schools, and related organizations in selecting and developing heritage resources in digital format and thereby make a tangible and memorable investment in the future.

Based on this vision and the new Alberta Social Studies curriculum, initial SDHPs (School Digital Heritage Projects) will focus on Alberta. General and grade specific project suggestions are made in the SDHPs proposal. Although initial project suggestions focus on Social Studies, Language Arts, and Information Technology; suggestions for projects in other areas such as drama, and music are also made. Use the contact infomation below for more information on projects:

CONTACT INFORMATION:

David Ibsen Ph. D. M.Ed. B.Ed.

FACTS (Family and Community Twining Society)

Email: facts@gaggle.net Phone: (780) 962-8539 Fax: (780) 960-2057

Address: 510 Queen Street, Spruce Grove, AB. T7X 2J5

Invitations to Inspiritng Education (Alberta) Conversations

The following excerpt is from the Inspiring Education Conversation Kit. You can make a link to information about your conversation by making a comment to this post using the name/url identification. See example below (note the comment has been copied to the post, which may be done for other comments as well (depending on time and importance of the comment).

I would like to invite you to a very important conversation about the future of the children of this province.
Inspiring Education: A Dialogue with Albertans is an initiative launched by the province to talk to Albertans about a new vision for the future of K – 12 education. There is no agenda; there is no pre-determined outcome; there is just a sincere desire to engage all Albertans in talking about the role and importance of education to our society. The Dialogue also includes discussions on what we think are the most important attributes and qualities we want in an “educated” person twenty years from now.
This is not a traditional consultation. It is a conversation where everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate.
While the province is hosting several community conversations that you are welcome to sign up for, we think this initiative is important enough for us to hold a conversation of our own.
You may think that this conversation is not for you because you are not an expert or, perhaps, because you do not have children in school right now. However, it’s important that everyone – including people like you – participate. This process is not only about experts or teachers or parents expressing their views; it is about every Albertan having a useful and unique perspective to bring to this conversation. We all have hopes and dreams for the future, and we want to hear from you.
While our discussion will be very low-key and informal, it will contribute to the broader Inspiring Education discussions. The province will use the results of all of the conversations to create a vision of an educated Albertan and to inform the development of a policy framework that will guide education in Alberta in the future.
This is very exciting, very important and something that I hope you are as willing to support as I am.

Tricom Conversation on Education
Click on link for your invitation to an "Inspiring Education Conversation" hosted by the School Council at Spruce Grove Composite High School.