Northwest Territories Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Northwest Territories Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Instant-download teaching units for NWT classrooms, built around questions, tasks and student evidence rather than one framework's wording, with four levels of worksheets, editable slides, complete answer keys and a timed lesson plan.
Begin with one unit →Resources that fit
Units NWT teachers can pick up mid-year
The senior forgiveness and reconciliation unit costs $9.90 and runs in a few periods; the three middle-years ethics units each fill about two weeks; the SEL curriculum covers a whole program.
Forgiveness & Reconciliation – Arendt · Luke 15 · Truth Commission | Ethics & Religious Studies (11-12)
Freedom and Responsibility – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Happiness and a Good Life – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Influencers and Social Media – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Curriculum: Build Connections, Foster Growth
Why teachers here use these
Why teachers in the NWT use these
Very little about NWT planning is settled right now. Under JK-12 Curriculum Renewal the territory is moving off Alberta's programs of study and onto British Columbia's redesigned, competency-based curriculum, grade by grade, with full transition targeted for 2028. A teacher in the middle of that carries two vocabularies: older outcomes in the grades that have not converted, curricular competencies and content in those that have. Graduation is shifting underneath as well. Requirements that began with Grade 10 in 2024–25 replaced subject-specific diploma exams with literacy and numeracy assessments, which appear on the transcript but no longer count toward final course marks, and the credit requirement is moving from five to four. Material written tightly to one framework ages fast. What travels is a unit organized around a question, a sequence of tasks and evidence of what students produced: that maps onto competencies as readily as onto outcomes, and it survives the year your grade converts.
A sequence you can run
Five stages, and where the marks come from
Each unit is laid out as a sequence with timings, so you can see before you teach it which stage produces the work you will be reporting on.
- Start with a question worth arguingThe opening sheet puts a real question in front of the class and asks for a first answer in writing. Everyone commits to a position before anyone hears the vocabulary.
- Give them the ideas and the wordsSlides and a short reading supply the concepts and the terms. Ten to fifteen minutes of input is enough; the deck is editable, so you can cut the examples that will not land here.
- Work the tier that suits the studentThe same task goes out at four levels. Nobody sits idle and nobody is handed something they cannot read, which matters in a class where the range of ability is wide.
- Turn it into something they makeThe project stage — a poster, a role play, a short presentation — gives students a reason to use the words they were taught rather than repeating them back on a sheet.
- Collect the written evidenceThe closing task asks for a reasoned answer to the question they began with. It is the piece to keep, mark and put in the file as evidence of the competency.
What's covered
What each download includes
A unit is the whole teaching set, not a sampler: everything needed to run the sequence arrives at once and every file can be changed before you print it.
- Worksheets at four challenge levels
- Editable slide deck
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital formats
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
Built for reporting and for home learning
Descriptive reporting puts particular weight on the four levels. A percentage says nothing about which part of a task a student managed alone, whereas the level a student worked from — and whether the sentence frames were still needed by the end — says it precisely. Because all four versions ask the same underlying question, the work stays comparable across a class of mixed ages, and October and March writing from one student can be set side by side. That is easier to defend at a conference than a mark, and it is the sort of evidence a competency statement rests on.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these units connected to the territorial curriculum in any official way?
No. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of Education, Culture and Employment, and nothing here has been through a territorial review process. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills the curriculum describes for its subject and grade band, which is why it drops into a course rather than sitting beside it. Read the preview against your own scope and sequence before you buy — that check is yours to make.
How do these fit the new graduation requirements?
The requirements that began with Grade 10 in 2024–25 replaced subject-specific diploma exams with literacy and numeracy assessments, which show on the transcript without counting toward final course marks, while the credit requirement moves from five to four. These units are ordinary classroom material, not preparation for those assessments. What they build is reading a source, writing a reasoned answer and defending it, which is the everyday work behind literacy. We make no claim about anyone's results.
When does the full curriculum make more sense?
It depends how many teaching weeks you need to fill. One ethics unit at $24.99 covers roughly a fortnight, so if a single theme finishes your term, buy that. Where the course is yours for the year, or you teach the same subject to two grades and want the material to stretch, the Social Emotional Learning curriculum at $49.90 works out cheaper per lesson than assembling that span from single units.
My grade is mid-conversion. How do I slot a unit into the plan I already have?
Treat the unit as a two-week block rather than a replacement for your sequence. Read its closing task first, decide which competency or outcome that piece of writing would give you evidence for, and place the unit where your plan is thinnest. Because the Word files are editable, most teachers paste their own competency wording onto the cover page of the task sheet so the file matches the language their school is currently reporting in.
Are the worksheets usable for students who find reading hard?
The pages are laid out with generous white space, one instruction per line and one task per box, which helps a student who loses their place as much as a lower reading level does. Four levels of the same task let you hand a shorter, more supported version to whoever needs it without making a point of it in front of the class. Type size, font and line spacing can all be changed in the Word files before printing.
Our grade has not moved to the BC-style curriculum yet. Are these still usable?
Yes, and that is the reason they are written the way they are. A unit organized around a question, a set of tasks and a final piece of student work reads the same whether your grade is still on the older outcomes or has converted to curricular competencies and content. You decide which line in your own documentation the evidence answers to; the material needs no rewriting when your grade changes over.
One download for the whole year
The Social Emotional Learning curriculum brings the connection and growth material together in a single $49.90 file.
Open the SEL curriculum →