Resources Materials for PSII Learners
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Competency Assessment Framework
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BC Course Curriculum Summary Documents – A link to a dropbox file with summarized learning outcomes that can be referenced by learners. This will help people see how their learning is related to the BC curriculum, and will help people plan inquiries and learning activities to meet outcomes.
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Alphabetical by Session/Topic/Course Title
3D Printing
Debate
- Oxford Debate – Quick Guide (PSII)
- DEBATE-TOPIC-IDEAS (This list will be added to over the next few weeks)
Exam Preparation
- Sample English 12 e-exams
- English 12 Exam – Literary Terms to Know
Finance and Budgeting
Graduation Planning
- BC Grad Planner – Everything you need to know about courses and credits leading to graduation
History
Languages
- Esperanto – practice
- Estonian – beginner practice
- French – beginner practice: GVPL member or VIRL member
- German – beginner practice: GVPL member or VIRL member
- Greek – beginner practice: GVPL member or VIRL member
- Hungarian – beginner practice: GVPL member or VIRL member
- Icelandic – beginner practice
- Italian – beginner practice: GVPL member or VIRL member
- Japanese – (beginner) online language practice
- Japanese – Katakana and Hiragana practice
- Japanese – advanced practice via Living Language – online and books (coming soon!)
- Latin – practice
- Swedish – beginner practice: GVPL member or VIRL member
Literature
- Response to Literature Ideas (for short stories and novels)
- Romeo and Juliet (PDF)
- Romeo and Juliet glossary (online)
- Tempest
- Midsummer Night’s Dream (downloadable PDF or online)
- Much Ado About Nothing (PDF)
- Shakespeare’s Henry V (full text)
- Shakespeare’s King Lear (PDF)
- Short Stories:
- Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- The Veldt – Ray Bradbury
- The Cask of Amontillado – Edgar Allen Poe
- Symbols and Signs – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Call of Cthulhu – H.P. Lovecraft
- The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains – Neil Gaiman
- Johnny Mnemonic – William Gibson
- Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- The Second Variety – Philip K. Dick
- Also check the library for short storis by Heather O’Neill, W.P. Kinsella, Stephen King, Alice Munro, Philip K. Dick, David Sedaris….
Math Tools
- Online Graphing Calculator (great for trying out y=mx+b formations!)
- Algebra Tiles Online Tool (great for polynomials)
- Mathematical Literacy Assessment Tool (UVic)
Music
Ocean Acidification Lab
Philosophy
- Is Reality Really Real_ Berkeley and Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy
- The Ring of Gyges (Plato): For “Ethics and Morality” Session
- Plato: The Allegory of the Cave
- Berkeley: Nothing Outside the Mind
Photography
- Exposure Triangle
- ISO Sensitivity
- Shutter Speed
- Aperture
- Compositional Rules
- Lenses
- Depth of Field
- White Balance
- Composition (Part 2)
- Colour
- Portraits
Physics
- Grade 12 -Practice (forces, vectors)
- Physics 11 – Practice (PART 1 of 2)
- Physics 11 Overview with Equations
- Physics 12 Overview with Equations
- Wave Anatomy (from the “Physics Classroom” website)
- Electrostatics and Nuclear Processes
- Projectile Simulator (vectors)
- Resolving Vectors (practice)
- Pendulum Motion (practice)
- Circular Motion – (overview and practice problems)
- Light Wave Equation (practice)
- DC Circuit Skill Builder (practice)
Planning
- Gantt chart sample and blank template (detailed graphical timeline planner for elements of a project or learning activity; can open with Excel, Libre Office, or Google Sheets)
Poetry
- Poetry Analysis – Song Lyrics (guidelines for studying song lyrics and music as poetry and writing about it)
Psychology
- AP Psychology Resources
- DSM IV and V criteria for personality disorders
- Change Blindness Demo (online)
- Autism – Sensory Differences
- Autism – Sensory Differences and the Brain
- EQ Test Online (a pretty good one)
- Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator Online
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder – article
- Stroop effect (selective attention)
- Sports Psychology (including selective attention demo)
- Task Switching (selective attention)
- Cognitive Bias
Reading
Robotics
- FTC Robotics 2016-17 Information
- Pushbot Build Guide (First Inspires) – good place to start for rookies
Social and Historical Thinking
Social Studies
- Political Spectrum and Parties
- Review – Political Spectrum and Parties
- Canadian Government
- Review – Canadian Government
- Presentation – World War One
- Review – World War One
- Presentation – World War Two
- Review – World War Two
- Presentation – Cold War
- Review – Cold War
- Presentation – Women in Canada
- Review – Women in Canada
- Presentation – Human Rights and Immigration
- Review – Human Rights and Immigration
- Presentation – Canadian Identity and the Welfare State
- Review – Canadian Identity and the Welfare State
- Presentation – Economic Cycles and the Labour Movement
- Review – Economic Cycles and the Labour Movement
- Presentation – Quebec and Regionalism
- Review – Quebec and Regionalism
- Presentation – Aboriginal History in Canada
- Review – Aboriginal History
- Presentation – Human Geography
- Review – Human Geography
Work Experience
- Resume Sample and Guide – Use this as a guide as you craft a simple resume.
Writing
- BC Writing Performance Standards (Grade 10)
- Writing prompts (of all kinds!)
- Improve the Paragraph (turn a boring, bare-bones paragraph into something much better!)
- Word Biography (create an historical fiction [based on fact] biography of a “word-as-person”)
- Book Inquiry Ideas (ideas for how to share your ideas on a book you read)
- Essay Planner Template (a template to help you plan your essays)