Grade+4

ROVER (Recommended Online Video Education Resources) is the video streaming site for Saskatchewan teachers and students in the PreK-12 education system. It is managed and maintained by the Saskatchewan Ministry of Education.

[[file:1-5 Rubric.zip]]
This zip folder contains wall-sized classroom print outs for Sun West's 5 point rubric. Teachers are printing and posting this rubric in their classrooms. This is a handy tool when co-constructing criteria with students.

**Classroom Ideas**
**This is a cross curricular unit using the poem, If You're Not From the Prairie.** Created by Danielle Jamieson

This mini unit creates an understanding of what Power and Authority are. It incorporates both ELA and Health topics and is therefore able to be cross curriculuar. Created by Danielle Jamieson


 * IN 4.1 a. Create a biographic profile (Whitecap)**

DR 4.2 In this lesson students will explore the close relationship First Nations people of Saskatchewan have traditionally had with the natural world. First Nations people grew plants and produced food long before the European settlers began to arrive. Students will examine some aspects of the interdependence of First Nations people with their environment. .....from Ag in the Classroom.

PA 4.2 Understanding the Provincial system of Government
A SmartBoard notebook file has been created that includes lessons and assessments on: rules and laws; rights and responsibilities; 3 levels of government; heads of government; and how laws are made. These lessons cover all the indicators for PA 4.2 This file can be shared through DropBox. Email Virginia Mireau for your copy.

**PA 4.2 b Rights and Responsibilities**
Activity: Creation of a mobile guides students through citizenship, rights and responsibilities. Includes student handouts.

Summative assessment: Students create a two-sided coin showing rights on one side and responsibilities on the other.

Four lesson ideas on First Nations governance:
Thank you to Susan Beaudin, Office of the Treaty Commissioner, for reviewing these lessons for appropriate language and content.

This lesson for PA 4.3 (a) asks students to make a poster illustrating the four levels of First Nations governance. Created by Virginia Mireau and the WAS Gr. 4 teachers.

This lesson for PA 4.3 (b) provides students with background information about the selection process for chief then and now and gives a choice of two activities to demonstrate their learning. Created by Virginia Mireau and the WAS Gr. 4 teachers.

This lesson for PA 4.3 (c) asks students to come up with their own ideas of what they think current First Nations issues are. Created by Virginia Mireau and the WAS Gr. 4 teachers.

This lesson for PA4.3 (a) provides students with information on local government (urban, rural and band), then has the students fill in a comparison chart. Created by Virginia Mireau and the WAS Gr. 4 teachers.

Lessons for the Metis governance outcome:
This lesson for PA 4.4 introduces students to the Metis nation using a storybook called "The Flower Beadwork People". Lesson suggestion created by Virginia Mireau. The poster series by Sherry Farrell Racette was sent to all schools a couple of years ago. It is a beautiful visual depcition of the Metis culture.

This is a collection of illustrations that follows the storybook "The Flower Beadwork People". The illustrations can be shown on SmartBoard while the teacher reads the storybook aloud. The power point illustrations are from public access internet sources. Created by Virginia Mireau.

**Resources and Links**
An illustrated medicine wheel showing totem, elements, season, direction, etc.