This found poetry activity will allow your students to engage in creative writing as they express themselves moving from an individual story to a collective story.

You can print this display poster and hang it up in your classroom or show it to your students at the beginning of the year to foster a growth mindset and set them up for success.

This exit ticket/inquiry-based assessment tool can be used as a formative assessment in your classroom to understand what your students know and what they would still like to know. The same exit ticket is duplicated on the document (to be more eco-friendly.)

This peer activity can be used as an activity or formative assessment tool in your classroom to promote your students´ debating, collaboration, and oral communication skills by having them share various perspectives and insights on specific debate topics or inquiry-based topics. Two activity ideas are provided with clear instructions on the document for students with different ability levels (ex. the “Extra challenge” activity would be more appropriate for students with a higher level of English and who have learned about how to effectively use counter-arguments.)

This film analysis worksheet will allow students in your English language, Humanities, or Social Sciences classes to define, analyze, and make relevant connections to 21st century themes explored in The Barbie Movie (ex. toxic masculinity, feminism, equity, equality, self-acceptance, etc.)

This set of posters can be used in your ESL classroom to get your English language learners to speak by asking basic questions in the classroom.

This lesson can be used in your English/ESL intermediate/advanced classes to teach your students about the importance of water in Indigenous communities and help spread water advocacy. Comes with an assessment in the form of a checkbrick and open-ended comments to evaluate your students’ understanding.

This fun spooky spelling bee challenge Halloween activity can be used in your English or ESL language classrooms to get your students to practice their spelling skills all while having fun!

This worksheet can be used as a warm up activity to get students in your English speaking classroom to brainstorm and reflect on the meaning of respect. This can also be used in lessons focused on socio-emotional learning.

This character portrait worksheet can be used in your English language classroom to help your students analyze a character of their choice from a literary work they are reading.

This fun and interactive “Would you rather game?” can be used in your English language classroom to get your students speaking about what they would rather choose from a list of different scenarios.

This cross-curricular lesson on kindness will allow your students to learn more about what it means to be kind and pay it forward in their daily lives, thereby empowering them to be active citizens who act out of kindness. It can be used with primary and secondary students, but the difficulty level of the activities may need to be slightly modified depending on your group of students. A link to a Google doc with the full lesson plan outline/slide activity instructions is included. Socio-emotional learning skills will be developed as students learn to reflect on how they can show kindness and gratitude in their lives and with others.