Yukon Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Yukon Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Downloadable units for Yukon classrooms, written to the kind of curricular competencies and content the adopted curriculum sets out, with worksheets at four levels, an editable deck, complete answer keys and a lesson plan with timings.
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Units that suit a Yukon classroom
Begin with the K–4 drawing activity, carry on through the middle-years units on artificial intelligence, the internet and the way music steers what an audience feels, and finish with the media literacy bundle.
Funny Fish Art – Printable SEL Drawing Activity for Grades K–4
How Artificial Intelligence Works – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
How Music Shapes Perception | Media Literacy, Psychology & Music Analysis
How the Internet Works – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Future Society & Media Literacy Mega Bundle
Why teachers here use these
Why Yukon teachers use these
Yukon did something no other jurisdiction on this list did: rather than write a curriculum of its own, it adopted British Columbia's redesigned K–12 program outright, starting with Kindergarten to Grade 9 in 2017–18 and phasing the senior grades in afterwards. That decision has a practical consequence for anyone teaching here. The language on your planning page is BC's language — curricular competencies and content — and the graduation credential follows BC's model, including a pathway toward the BC Certificate of Graduation that can carry Yukon-specific content. What the arrangement does not supply is a shelf of Yukon-made resources; most published material is written for somewhere else and has to be judged on whether the concepts actually match. Add the geography — small communities, schools where one teacher covers several grades and several subjects, a colleague teaching your course who may be a flight away — and building every unit from scratch stops being realistic. A finished unit only has to pass one test: whether it teaches the competency you were going to teach anyway.
A sequence you can run
Five lessons from a single file
Each unit is planned as a connected sequence rather than a stand-alone activity, so one download covers most of a two-week block and keeps extension work in reserve for the students who race ahead.
- Start with what students noticeThe opening lesson gives the class something to examine — a recommendation feed, a soundtrack, a web page — and asks them to write down what they observe before any term is defined.
- Introduce the competency languageA second sheet names what they were already doing: questioning, analysing, connecting. Putting the curriculum's own words on the board here means the vocabulary is earned rather than announced.
- Model it once, then releaseYou work one example aloud with the deck, and students then run the same steps on a second case in pairs, which is where you hear who has the method and who has the pattern.
- Set the making taskEvery unit ends in something produced: a short analysis, a designed prototype, a written position. The lower tiers get a structured frame, and the upper tiers get the open brief and a longer justification.
- Keep the evidenceThe closing piece is dated, marked and filed. It is what you reach for at a student-led conference, in a support-plan meeting, or when a family asks what the term actually covered.
What's covered
What comes in each download
Every unit is sized for a full block rather than a filler, and the files stay editable, so you can shorten a reading or drop in a local example before it reaches the class.
- Four levels of worksheets
- Slide deck, fully editable
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and screen-ready
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
Built for small schools and mixed rooms
Four tiers matter most in a room where one teacher has two or three grades at once. Handing everyone the same sheet leaves the youngest copying and the oldest waiting, and neither group produces work worth marking. Four versions of one task let every student write at a depth they can manage while the question underneath stays the same, which keeps the responses comparable across the room. That comparability is what makes a folder of student work usable later: when you are reporting against curricular competencies rather than a percentage, a set of dated written pieces says far more about what a student can do than a column of marks does.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Do these follow the curriculum Yukon uses?
They are independent resources. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Yukon Department of Education. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills a curriculum of this kind describes — the same competencies-and-content shape Yukon adopted from British Columbia — so the material should sit inside the course you already teach. Read the preview against your own year plan before buying, because a teacher's own scope and sequence is the only test that settles it.
How do these relate to graduation requirements here?
Yukon follows BC's graduation-credential model, and some Yukon First Nations students can pursue a BC Certificate of Graduation pathway that carries Yukon-specific content. These units are course material rather than exam preparation: they build extended writing, analytical vocabulary and the habit of supporting a claim with evidence, which is what senior coursework asks for. We make no claim about results and we publish nothing that imitates a provincial assessment.
My class sits a grade outside the band on the listing. Does that matter?
Rarely, because of the four tiers. Take a Grades 6–9 unit into a Grade 5 room and run the two lower tiers with the extension task removed; take the same unit into Grade 10 and run the upper tiers with the longer written brief attached. The concept, the deck and the sequence are unchanged. What shifts is the reading load and how much structure the sheet gives, and the preview shows both ends of that range.
Can I use the written tasks as assessment evidence?
Yes, and that is largely the point of the closing task. It asks for extended writing instead of a single answer, and the key sets out what a strong response contains, so your marking stays consistent across a class and across sections. Teachers reporting against competencies tend to keep two or three of these pieces per term as the concrete evidence behind a proficiency statement at conference time.
Could we work through one of these in a staff or PD session?
Several schools do. A finished unit gives a small staff something specific to examine: put the tier one and tier four sheets beside each other and the conversation about what scaffolding removes becomes concrete rather than theoretical. Worth noting on the licensing side — one purchase covers one teacher and that teacher's own classes, so colleagues who want to run the material with their students need their own copies.
Everything I find online is written for British Columbia. Is that a problem?
Less of one here than almost anywhere else in Canada, since Yukon adopted BC's curriculum wholesale rather than adapting it. Material built around BC's competencies and content usually maps directly onto what you are teaching, and the check is simply whether the wording of the competency matches. These units are written to concepts rather than to any one jurisdiction's document, which is why the preview matters more than the label on the front.
A term's worth in one download
The media literacy bundle collects the senior units into a single file, ordered so a class can work through them in sequence.
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