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A compilation of resources to support Indigenous education initiatives. Includes picture book and chapter book use for K - 12 classrooms. Activities to support mathematics and science-based learning. A portion of resources is also dedicated to intergenerational learning.

Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.

Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Identify Plants and Plant Requirements is an editable, open access learning resource with interactive web based experiences customized for horticulture students studying plant identification.

This edition supports student achievement of the Level 3 and  Level 4 learning goals for Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Line F2:

• Identify plant and plant requirements for a range of woody and non-woody plants
• Use botanical terms to identify and describe plants
• Identify and describe plants according to cultural and maintenance requirements
• Recognize plants suitable for common tropical, floral and interior landscape situations
• Identify plants suitable for planting in difficult situations
• Describe native plants common to the horticulture industry
• Describe seasonal plants common to the horticulture industry in BC
• Describe plants suitable for green infrastructure projects
• Describe plants suitable for edible landscapes

Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Identify Plants and Plant Requirements is an adaptation of KPU HORT 1155 Introduction to Plant Materials Lecture Notes. It is an editable, open access learning resource with interactive web based experiences customized for horticulture students studying plant identification.

This first edition supports student achievement of the Level 1 and 2 learning goals for Red Seal Landscape Horticulturist Line F2:

• Identify plant and plant requirements for a range of plants commonly used in horticulture
• Employ correct naming and plant identification terminology
• Identify morphological characteristics, growing requirements, use and availability
• Use a dichotomous key for plant identification
• Explain plant hardiness
• Identify weedy and invasive plants

Designed specifically for Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, this Pressbook offers interactive activities and strategies for developing academic writing skills. Learners have the opportunity to review key parts of the writing process from interpreting their assignment instructions, organizing their ideas, drafting their writing, and revising their work.

Within this package students will find a study guide in the form of student learning objectives. Also contained with are weekly laboratory activities related to the following; urinary system, nervous system and special senses, immunity and response to injury and infection, reproductive systems, pregnancy and embryology.

This resource compiles post-secondary student voices on accessible teaching practices and universal design for learning (UDL) components that have been integrated into their classes. Students reflect on meaningfulness and engagement, accommodation plans, course design, and instructor supportiveness. This guide offers suggestions for teaching to support instructors in building more accessible classrooms.

The Open Guide to Integrated Marketing Communications is an OER that was written and edited by KPU students in 2020. It covers a range of topics related to designing and launching integrated marketing campaigns, such as research, audience segmentation, creative briefs, content calendars, and more. The authors have also included reusable materials and templates to support the marketing and communications efforts of those organizations with the smallest of budgets and most limited resources, namely not-for-profit organizations, NGO’s, charities, advocacy groups, and climate & social activists. The Open Guide to IMC is centred around the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals and created as an inclusive, equitable, and accessible resource to support quality education.

Chicago Style Citations covers why it is important to use citations, elements of common source types, and how to create footnotes or endnotes and bibliographic citations based on the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The sources and activities throughout the tutorial focus on educational content. This tutorial can also be used as a reference resource. This tutorial is adapted from APA Style Citations by Ulrike Kestler (Kwantlen Polytechnic University), which in turn was based on the APA Style Citation tutorial Sarah Adams and Debbie Feisst (University of Alberta Libraries).