Stories of Practice are intended to inspire educators as they design learning experiences that support the development of the Manitoba Global Competencies. These stories represent examples of teachers who have intentionally and explicitly infused the competencies into learning experiences in their context. They also illustrate the Guiding Principles of Designing Learning Experiences and Assessment Practices in action.
The Stories of Practice are organized to highlight different competencies and guiding principles in a variety of curricular areas. Each story may illustrate multiple competencies and/or guiding principles beyond those under which they are designated and may be easily adapted to focus on different competencies or guiding principles.
Teachers are encouraged to consider how they might take a story and adapt or change it (in grade, concept, or pedagogical approach) for their own students and context.
Collect items from nature to explore, learn from, and create with.
Investigate the four seasons through a whole-class inquiry.
Explore the roles, responsibilities, and contributions of the members of our community.
What are the creatures in our backyard, and how can we care for them?
Explore and honour the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action using learner-friendly language.
Learn about simple machines by designing arcades.
Explore middle grade and young adult texts written by diverse voices.
Share stories through oral traditions.
What are the benefits and challenges of creating recipes from local ingredients?
What are terms of the Treaties, how are they being upheld, and what are their short- and long-term impacts?
Explore the real world of work through research and experts.
Seek out diverse perspectives to create a depth of understanding in complex issues.
Design an experiment to prove a law.
What happens when we change the question from “What’s for homework?” to “What are my goals?”
Who am I and what makes me special? Explore personal identity and connection to Indigenous culture by critically responding to an Anishinaabe tradition.
In what ways can your home use energy more efficiently?
Which elements on the periodic table have a personality just like mine?
Explore Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing through literature, design process, collaboration, and digital literacy.
How can we help others when times are hard?
Share and learn about celebrations and traditions with classmates.
How can one person or event create change in the world?
How do circle graphs communicate information?
Explore water and sanitation as a basic human right; use robots to design, build, test, and drive an apparatus to safely transport clean drinking water to a community in need.
Share untold stories to understand who we are.
How can Two-Eyed Seeing/Etuaptmumk help us to better understand and be stewards of local land and waters and to advocate for their protection?
How can we empower and engage learners to own the game, create community, and meaningfully include all learners in sports?
How are we connected to land and water?
How can we bridge traditional Indigenous technologies with current innovations in woodworking?
Explore our community in the past, present, and future using Minecraft.
Use the design process to create personalized trading cards.
