The Ultimate Class Project: Kids Guide to Canada + Digital BreakoutEDU

In our mostly rural school district over the past 3 years, we have helped teachers in a few different communities put their schools and communities On the Map as a project connected to A Kid’s Guide to Canada. On the map above you can see our Alberta community dots for Burdett, Redcliff, Schuler and New Brigden located inside the red box. Click this link to get to the interactive map and click on these dots found in Southern Alberta. When you click on the community, scroll down to see images and links.

Last spring we were planning to add Warren Peers School, located in Acadia Valley, AB to the A Kid’s Guide to Canada map, but then COVID hit. In addition, COVID interrupted a student digital Breakout Building project that we were working on in the triple-graded 4-5-6 class at Warren Peers. This fall, as we started to resurrect our Digital Breakout Class project, the idea to merge the Digital Breakout creation with putting Acadia Valley on the A Kid’s Guide to Canada map started to click into place.

Acadia Valley is located about 1.5 hours north of our district office, so when we travel to the community to work on a project we usually carve out several different time slots during the day to make the drive worthwhile!

This will be the launch page to read about the steps in this process and our progress. Links will be added as our project progresses. We invite you to follow along in this multi-disciplinary, multi-class, deeper-learning project.

• Step 1: Reviewing Breakout
• Step 2: Brainstorming Locations
• Step 3: Plan a Map Route for Photos
• Step 4: Photo-palooza
• Step 4.5: Label and Caption Photos
• Step 5: Publish photos to the AKGTC Map
• Step 6: “Student Expert” on location projects
• Step 7: Create Map-based Breakout Clue
• Step 8: Create Community Based Digital Breakout; check out our game here!