If you’re an elementary generalist, you probably have to teach your own art class. It can be tricky to find interesting art projects that don’t require a lot of special materials or skills. We have created a lot of different art projects over the years. Some of them have flopped. But, we’ve also come up […]
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How to Teach Coding Without Knowing How to Code
It seems that teachers are expected to have a wealth of knowledge about everything under the sun. Even as the world changes, they keep adding the new learning to the old content so that students will benefit. Coding is a vital skill and there are so many ways it enriches the classroom. However, many teachers […]
Make the Best of Your Natural Resources Lessons
What do you think of when you think of natural resources? Forests? Oil and gas? Wind power? Teaching students about natural resources is easy when you have them examine all the objects around them. Humans rely on natural resources to make life easier. We use them to make shelter, provide energy and sustain our nutrition. […]
Plotting on the Cartesian Plane During Math Class
The Cartesian plane was named after the mathematician René Descartes. This is now an outcome in the Alberta Mathematics Curriculum and somehow we made it through all our university math classes without needing that information. The plane is a fundamental tool that can represent relationships between two variables. Most of that goes right over the […]
