Winter Animals Teacher Notes
Teacher notes
Winter Animals is made in Google Slides and gives learners a choice of stories or songs to listen to:
Deer: A song called Deer Dancing Round a Broken Mirror by Bruce Cockburn and Rik Emmet.
Owl: A TVO short about Kenojuak Ashevak and her painting, The Enchanted Owl.
Raven: The Raven and the Owl, an Inuit legend put to song. There are two versions: one by The National Film Board of Canada and one by Becky Han.
Fox: The Fox and the Whale, a 2016 Canadian animated short film directed by Robin Joseph.
Skater: a 1980 animated film from the National Film Board of Canada narrated by the author of the story, Roch Carrier. There is a link to a 2023 riff on this story called the Hockey Jersey.
There are follow up activities in a Google Form.
To make your own activity like this or get a copy of the form to use with learners, please contact tracey@alphaplus.ca.
How I made this
I started this in session 2 of the Building digital skills with Google workshops done in partnership with EdTechTeacher and posted it here.
I made the form in session 3. It uses sections to create branching scenarios.
Embedding activities into Google sites
The slide deck and form above are embedded and then I resized the embed windows so you can see the whole slide and form on this page.
This works well if you want to have other content on the page, but it can get unwieldy.
What if you want people to see a whole document or slide show on one page?
It can be awkward to copy-and-paste information from Docs in Google sites. Full-page embed is a great option.
Full-page embed option
You can embed Google Docs -- and Slides -- as full web pages.
Richard Byrne explains how in this video and shows an example of an embedded Doc.. To see the slide show as a full page embed, click here.
More Jamboard resources from AlphaPlus
So far, I haven't figured out how to embed a Jamboard :) but it is a great, easy-to-use, highly adaptable tool. If you click on Samples you can see samples by me, Ontario literacy practitioners, and those shared by EdTechTeacher that you can copy and adapt.