Northern & Remote School Teaching Resources (Canada)
Northern & Remote School Teaching Resources (Canada)
Downloadable teaching units for small schools in the North: one question, four levels of worksheets, editable slides and complete answer keys, so a multi-grade room can work together without you writing two sets of materials.
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Units for northern and remote classrooms
The Grades K–4 drawing activity is $9.99 and runs in one period; the three middle-years ethics units each fill about a fortnight; the ten-unit collection is for a course you carry all year.
Funny Fish Art – Printable SEL Drawing Activity for Grades K–4
Justice and Fairness – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Prejudice, Discrimination and Moral Courage – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
AI and Responsibility – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
XXL Ethics Bundle: Values, Responsibility & Society | 10 Complete Units · 30 Lessons | Grades 7–10
Why teachers here use these
What northern and remote schools have in common
Curriculum differs sharply across the North; the working conditions rhyme. Yukon adopted British Columbia's redesigned K-12 curriculum outright, beginning with Kindergarten to Grade 9 in 2017–18. The Northwest Territories is partway through the same move away from Alberta's programs of study, with full transition targeted for 2028. Nunavut builds its whole program on Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit and is rolling out a new Inuktut-language curriculum. Alaska's roadless geography keeps districts on distance and correspondence delivery, and many run four-day weeks. What links these places is scale. One teacher covers several subjects and several grades, preparation time is the first thing a small timetable spends, and material has to work where the ages in a room differ by years. A finished unit answers that: four levels of one task in a single file, a plan with timings, slides and answer keys, nothing to wait for in the mail.
A sequence you can run
A sequence that survives a lost week
The five stages are timed separately, so a unit can run over a fortnight, over three long days, or in pieces around the weeks when half the class is away.
- Set the same question for everyoneThe whole class starts on one question, whatever their grade. Nobody is split off into a separate lesson, which matters when the room holds three or four year groups at once.
- Teach from the deck, not the textbookThe slides carry the input, so the lesson does not depend on a class set of books arriving or on the connection holding up while a video loads.
- Give each student their own levelFour versions of the task go out at once. The Grade 7 student and the Grade 10 student work side by side on the same question, each at their own depth.
- Use the project as the shared lessonPosters, role plays and short presentations bring the class back together. Older students explain the idea to younger ones, which is what a multi-grade room does better than a streamed class.
- Mark the writing, keep the fileThe closing task leaves dated written work from every student. Where the teacher may change next year, that file is what the next person inherits instead of a blank slate.
What's covered
What is in the download
Everything needed to teach the unit arrives in one file set, which matters when a delivery takes a week to reach the community and the copier is your only press.
- Worksheets at four challenge levels
- Editable slide deck
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital formats
- Word and PowerPoint files
Browse by jurisdiction
Browse the jurisdiction pages
Each page below sets out the curriculum framework and the agency for one jurisdiction, with the same downloadable units seen from that angle. Start with whichever one your school reports to.
Make it work in your building
Made for small schools in the North
Attendance in a small northern school is rarely continuous — travel, weather and time on the land take students out for a week. Tiered work handles that better than a linear worksheet package. A student coming back mid-unit can be handed the level that lets them join the lesson the class is on rather than the three they missed, and the question under discussion is the one they left. What you keep afterwards is dated writing from every student, including the ones whose attendance makes a term mark hard to defend.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these resources connected to any education ministry or department?
No. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by any provincial or territorial ministry of education, or by any state education agency, and nothing here has been through an official review. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills that curriculum documents describe for its subject and grade band, which is why one file works across jurisdictions that word things differently. Check the preview against your own scope and sequence before buying.
How do these fit the assessments and graduation rules up here?
They sit beside them as ordinary classroom material. Alaska runs the Performance Evaluation for Alaska's Schools (PEAKS); the Northwest Territories has replaced subject-specific diploma exams with literacy and numeracy assessments; Yukon follows British Columbia's graduation-credential model; Newfoundland and Labrador organizes its curriculum around seven Essential Graduation Learnings. These units build reading, subject vocabulary and written reasoning. They are not practice tests, and we make no claim about results.
I have six preparations in a two-teacher school. What does this save?
The build. Sequencing a unit, writing four versions of every worksheet, making a deck that can carry the content on its own and working out the answer keys is most of a weekend for one topic. Buying it leaves you reading the unit, cutting what does not suit your students and running copies. With six preparations, that is the difference between two prepared lessons a day and none.
What can I look at before I pay?
Every listing carries a preview with sample worksheet pages, slides from the deck and the lesson plan, plus the grade band and file list. If your class spans several grades, read the easiest tier and the hardest tier and ask whether both ends of your room could work from them on the same afternoon. That is the test that matters in a multi-grade classroom, more than the grade label.
If a unit turns out not to suit my class, what then?
Downloads arrive immediately and cannot be returned like a printed book, so the terms that apply are in the store's refund policy — please read it there, since nothing separate is offered on this page. The preview is the practical protection. Where a download link fails or a file will not open, contact the store and the delivery will be sorted out.
Do these units include northern, Inuit or First Nations content?
They do not, and it would be wrong for them to pretend otherwise. Local knowledge, language and history belong with the communities and the territorial programs built on them: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit runs through Nunavut's whole curriculum and is not something to buy as a file from outside. What these units give you is a general framework on justice, responsibility or media that leaves room for local material, in editable files you can add it to.
Ten units for a school with one of you
Thirty lessons in a single $89.99 download, enough to carry a multi-grade ethics rotation through the year.
See the ten-unit bundle →