Resource Highlight for Terry Fox Day: micro:bit Coding Activities
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Resource Highlight for Terry Fox Day: micro:bit Coding Activities

Grade 7 to 10 students can turn micro:bits into activity trackers and distance calculators with this set of coding challenges. Explore four ready-to-use activities, complete with starter resources, and discover extension ideas that connect to proportional reasoning, measurement, algebraic relationships, and even trigonometry!

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Virtual Summer Symposium
Samantha Chin Samantha Chin

Virtual Summer Symposium

DSB1 is excited to host a one-day Virtual Summer Symposium on Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 — and you’re invited!

We’ve lined up an amazing variety of sessions, including guest speakers, practical workshops, and creative learning opportunities to spark your curiosity and energize your teaching!

Check out the full session menu and pick your favourites.

Don’t miss out — register by noon on Friday, June 21st!
Just fill out this quick Google Form to save your spot.

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Writing Code to Model Mathematical Problems
Dana McBride Dana McBride

Writing Code to Model Mathematical Problems

Students at Timmins High & Vocational School are applying computational thinking to deconstruct mathematical problems. They are creating flowcharts and writing pseudocode to represent algorithmic processes, modelling how a computer processes and stores information from user-defined inputs, then outputs that information as instructed by the programmer.

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Morphology in Grade 7 & 8
Dana McBride Dana McBride

Morphology in Grade 7 & 8

Grade 7 and 8 students at Diamond Jubilee Public School and Cochrane Public School had fun using morphological concepts to build words on whiteboards or using the FreeForm App. They explored how the meaning of words change depending on what prefix and/or suffix they add to a root and students made connections to familiar words to help generalize their understanding. 

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Using Keynote to Create Cree Language Dictionaries
Dana McBride Dana McBride

Using Keynote to Create Cree Language Dictionaries

Students in Mrs. Ingram-Paquette's grade 6/7 Cree Language class at Diamond Jubilee Public School in Kapuskasing, got creative with Keynote and the Omushkego Cree app. They made their own visual and auditory dictionaries in Cree! Using Keynote, students integrated animations and employed the audio recording feature to present and communicate numbers they learned in Cree by consulting the Omushkego Cree app.

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