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A is for Alberta Activity Book for Kindergarten to Grade 3 students commemorating the Centennial was developed in partnership with the Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald and West Edmonton Mall.
Copies were distributed to schools across Alberta in February, with a downloadable PDF file posted on the website.
School History Project: If Walls Could Speak
Alberta students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 have been invited to research the history of their school and present the information in a medium of their choice.
The top entries will be submitted to a panel of judges and the top entries will be showcased in the Edmonton Journal, Calgary Herald and on Global TV, on the website and at a public location in Edmonton during the Centennial weekend.
This will be a unique way for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students to engage in an active learning experience that will allow them to celebrate the diversity and heritage of Alberta's schools.
A Trek Across Alberta is an Alberta Education coordinated project, which will lead students on a virtual trek across Alberta with a virtual map, using pedometers to measure their real steps during daily activity.
During their trek, students will encounter provincial parks, historic sites and places of interest.
A teacher's manual will accompany this activity, providing classroom activity suggestions for each site and for each grade from Kindergarten to Grade 6.
Mary Kieftenbeld: Composer of Alberta's Official Song
Selected from 300 entries, Alberta's song by songwriter Mary Kieftenbelt has become a popular element of Centennial celebrations, particularly by schools.
This project will introduce students to the process and joy of songwriting and sharing the results of their creative process.
Students in Grades 4-6 will experience songwriting by researching, writing and performing songs about their school and community.
The workshops will culminate in a student performance of their songs and by Ms Kieftenbelt, including the Alberta Song.
Historica
Historica (www.histori.ca/cncalendar.jsp) has produced a calendar for 2005 that contains a daily factoid about the history of Alberta and Saskatchewan, as both provinces celebrate centenaries in 2005.
Alberta Education distributed the calendar to all Grade 10 students.
The Games We Played
The Games We Played provides a creative look at the history of Alberta through children at play.
As a tribute to children, the intent is to reveal the fun side of history as seen through the lens of children's activities.
Illustrative paintings, short stories, lesson plans and a teacher's manual are being developed to explore the games children played in the past with an emphasis on teaching children these games, encouraging them to be more physically active.
The Virtual Legislature will be an interactive tour of the Alberta Legislature using state of the art interactive technology.
This is a cooperative Centennial project between Alberta Education and the Alberta Legislature.
Cretaceous Crime Scene is an interactive website to be developed by the Royal Tyrrell Museum (www.tyrrellmuseum.com) where students will be asked to solve a crime that occurred seven million years ago.
This project will be available on the museum's website and linked to the Alberta Education Centennial site.
Alberta Education provided a $25,000 grant to this project.
My Most Memorable Teacher: Centennial Story Project
To commemorate 100 years of teacher education in the province, the Faculty of Education at the University of Calgary has launched My Most Memorable Teacher (www.celebrateteachers.com).
Albertans, past and present, who have attended Alberta schools were invited to submit a story about their most memorable teacher.
The top 100 stories received by March 31, judged to be the most memorable, will be published in an anthology that will be distributed to all Alberta schools and libraries in November.
Alberta Education provided a $10,000 grant to this project.
Interchange on Canadian Studies
Interchange on Canadian Studies (www.ics.ca/) is a national, bilingual student forum in which young Canadians participate in a weeklong conference focusing on the exchange of ideas significant to Canada.
Medicine Hat Public No.76 is hosting this conference called "Tapping the Resources Within." Alberta Education provided a $150,000 grant to this project.
2005 World Schools Debating Championships
The high school world debating championship was held in Calgary in February 2005 (www.schoolsdebate.ca) and involved the participation of students from over 40 countries from six different continents.
The debates took place in a variety of Calgary schools and included a day of demonstration debates at the Siksika and Tsuu T'ina First Nations.
For the first time in the history of the event, a Canadian First Nations' exhibition debate team was invited to participate.
Alberta Education provided a $25,000 grant to this project.
Alberta Centennial Mountain Expedition
The Alberta Centennial Mountain Expedition, the largest coordinated mountaineering challenge ever attempted in Alberta or Canada, will climb 100 Alberta peaks and traverse the US/Alberta/BC borders while providing students with web cam updates (http://climbalberta.com).
Three, one-hour documentaries will be produced that chronicle this expedition.
A focus of the materials will be a history of the Aboriginal peoples of the Rocky Mountains.
Student materials, which will support the new Grade 4 Social Studies curriculum, will be developed and made available in late 2005.
Alberta Education provided a $65,000 grant to this project.
E-scapes
A new project to develop on-line explorations of Alberta's diverse ecosystems is beginning in this Centennial year.
The Boreal Centre for Bird Conservation (www.lslbo.org/borealcentre.asp) has been selected as the first e-Scape, with the following key components: video segments focusing on field work and Alberta curriculum; research presentations and photographs; dynamic maps and research data; student publishing to maps and reports; two 4 X 7 Field cameras; and live field reports with remote/satellite video conferencing and webcasting.
Alberta Education provided a $25,000 grant to this project, which will be produced this year and released in fall 2005.
The Forts: Adventurous Souls and Rough Made Boots
In this one-hour documentary produced by ACCESS Network, host Nick Lees explores the key forts in Alberta's history and puts the viewer in the rough-made boots of the pioneers.
The documentary will explore the skills that people needed in Alberta's early pioneer days.
Alberta Education provided a $5,000 grant to this project which will be released later in the year.
Alberta: A State of Mind
Alberta: A State of Mind is a celebratory book written by several prominent Alberta historians and writers and is a testament to the unique characteristics that makes Alberta what it is today.
Alberta Education will assist with the distribution of the book to schools in late 2005.
Alberta Education provided a $30,000 grant to this project
Maverick Alberta: A Search for the Soul of the Last, Best West
This documentary film explores the history of Alberta using humour as its lens.
Leslie Nielsen will narrate the documentary, which aims to inspire people to become mavericks and leaders by following their own paths to success, in the finest Alberta tradition.
Alberta Education provided a grant of $10,000 for the development phase of this project.
The film will be released in 2006.
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