Teaching Resources for grades K-4

I Am Everything In Between highlights kids who don’t fit into stereotypical gender ideals. This book celebrates children and how they gender identify by sending a positive message that regardless of biological gender, it’s okay to feel like a girl, it’s okay to feel like a boy, and it’s okay feel like "Everything In Between."
Children’s picture book ages 4-8 yrs.
Written and illustrated by Sydney Sunderland
ISBN 978-1-989996-06-5 $13.95 Softcover
Children’s picture book ages 4-8 yrs.
Written and illustrated by Sydney Sunderland
ISBN 978-1-989996-06-5 $13.95 Softcover
The SOGI 123 website provides excellent resources to assist in helping school districts and educators to build inclusive environments for students of all sexual orientations and gender identities.
BC educators: videos, lesson plans, and learning modules complete with PowerPoint presentations and facilitator’s guides specifically for elementary students: https://bc.sogieducation.org/sogi3#elementary-lesson-plans Alberta educators: a wealth of resources at: https://ab.sogieducation.org/sogi3 |
Each link below summarizes the big ideas, curriculum competencies, lesson plan overview, and more—and includes a link to a downloadable Word doc of the full lesson plan.
Parents resources- for elementary www.sogieducation.org/parents
BC Curricular Connections for the I am Everything in between and grades K-3:
SOCIAL STUDIES, K
SOCIAL STUDIES, K
- Big Ideas: Stories and traditions about ourselves and our families reflect who we are and where we are from.
- Curricular Competencies: Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions.
- Content: Ways in which individuals and families differ and are the same. Sample Topic: different types of families (nuclear, extended, step-families, adoptive and biological, same-sex, single-parent, etc.).
- Big Ideas: Healthy communities recognize and respect the diversity of individuals and care for the local environment.
- Curricular Competencies: Use Social Studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions; gather, interpret, and analyze ideas; and communicate findings and decisions.
- Content: Diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives within the local and other communities.
- Big Ideas: Learning about ourselves and others helps us develop a positive attitude and caring behaviours, which helps us build healthy relationships.
- Curricular Competencies: Identify caring behaviours among classmates and within families.
- Content: Caring behaviours in groups and families.