• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Ninja Notes

Let us help you teach like a ninja!

  • Engaging Lessons
  • Teaching Strategies
  • Classroom Tips
  • Free Resources
  • Shop
  • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy

Engaging Lessons

Teach Your Students How to Create Line Plots

by BrainNinjasWP

Teaching line plots can be challenging, but we've got some tried and true methods to teach dot plots (or line plots) to your students when you are introducing graphing or reviewing. Come take a look.

Most students feel comfortable making a bar graph, but line plots (or dot plots) can be difficult for some students. It is important to understand line plots so you can teach your students to master them. Come learn how we introduce and teach dot plots to our students as part of our graphing and statistics lessons.

[Read more…] about Teach Your Students How to Create Line Plots

Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: Dot Plots, graphing, interactive math notebooks, Line Plots, Math, Math Lessons, math units, Math Worksheets, Professional Learning, Teachers Pay Teachers

Inspiring Ways to Celebrate the Festival du Voyageur

by BrainNinjasWP

If you are looking for ways to celebrate the Festival du voyageur at your school, check out this list of ideas. It's a great way to teach French culture in your French, FSL or Core French classes.

Each year, we organize a Festival du Voyageur for students learning French in our school. Over the years, we’ve learned some tips to make the planning easier because there’s already enough to do in February. Come check out these activities and see which ones the French learners in your school might enjoy.

[Read more…] about Inspiring Ways to Celebrate the Festival du Voyageur

Filed Under: Classroom Tips, Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Festival du Voyageur, francophone lessons, French, French activities, french as a second language, French Culture, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, School-Wide Events, Teachers Pay Teachers, theme days, vocabulary

Dig Up Dinosaurs in Alberta With These Amazing Activities

by BrainNinjasWP

Whether you are teaching students about the different dinosaurs that lived in Alberta, how fossil fuels are created or how they died, these lessons and activities are designed for your elementary science class and only take moments to prep. Come take a look!

Most children go through a phase fascinated by dinosaurs. It only fits that living in Alberta means digging up dinosaurs and learning about fossil fuels. While learning about the specific dinosaurs is not in school curriculums, the result of their extinction is part of our lives today. Come learn about some of the ways we bring dinosaurs into our elementary science lessons. We’ve updated our lessons for the new Alberta science curriculum, but they work for any teacher wanted to roar through science (see what we did there?).

[Read more…] about Dig Up Dinosaurs in Alberta With These Amazing Activities

Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Alberta science, Critical Thinking, dinosaur extinction, Dinosaurs, Earth Science, fossils, google classroom activities, science, Science Lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers

Geography Skills Your Students Need to Know

by BrainNinjasWP

Teaching geography skills if a life skill your students need. Come learn some of the different ways we embed geography skills throughout our lessons.

Teaching geography skills is one of our favourite activities because maps are generally objective. Students who like math tend to do well with map reading because they’re so black and white (no pun intended). Come learn some of the ways we bring geography skills alive for our students without just reading boring maps over and over.

[Read more…] about Geography Skills Your Students Need to Know

Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: engaging lessons, Geography, geography activities, Lesson Plans, making a map, map activities, map lessons, map reading, map skills, Social Studies, social studies lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers

Save Time With this Christmas Art Collection

by BrainNinjasWP

Does your school ask you to create Christmas art to decorate the halls or gymnasium during the concert season? Over the years we’ve taught at schools with all-out Christmas concerts and others that were more secular in nature. However, the artwork requests have typically been the same. Some years we create Christmas art while others are just winter. Come learn a few of the fastest projects you can get knocked out in just a few hours from start to finish.

If you are looking for Christmas art projects that can be used for decorations, gifts or just for fun, then check out this post full of easy ideas for the Christmas season.
[Read more…] about Save Time With this Christmas Art Collection

Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art, Art Lessons, Christmas, Christmas activities, christmas cards, Christmas Crafts, Christmas Trees, engaging lessons, Holidays and Seasonal, Lesson Plans, Teachers Pay Teachers

Fun Ways to Review Map Reading With Your Students

by BrainNinjasWP

Are you looking for ways to practice map reading skills in practical but fun ways? Check out these activities that turn geography skills into creative learning.

Every year, we have to practice map reading with our students. Some skills stick, but others evaporate over the summer. Even with all the technology of Google Maps and other apps, students still need basic map reading skills. Learn how we review (or teach) geography skills and use a fun project to show off what students have learned.

[Read more…] about Fun Ways to Review Map Reading With Your Students

Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Geography, geography activities, geography lessons, making a map, map activities, map lessons, map reading, map skills, Social Studies, social studies lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers

Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Most Recent

  • Teaching students to measure capacity can be a fun and engaging hands-on activity for your upper elementary math class. Come learn about some of the different ways we help our students learn to measure capacity in metric units.
    Five Amazing Capacity Quests to Enliven Your Classroom
    Teaching students how to calculate capacity...
  • There are lots of fun ways to explore perimeter measurement in your upper elementary classroom and we've written up a whole post full of our favourite ideas. Come read it today!
    Love Math and Explore Perimeter With Your Young Mathematicians
    When people ask, "When will I...
  • Instead of teaching poetry in a unit, have you ever considered sprinkling poetry throughout the school year? It's a great way to show students that poetry is all around us. Come learn about some of the ways we include poetry in our language arts lessons throughout the year.
    How to Teach Poetry All Year Long
    Many teachers add a poetry unit...

Before Footer

Looking for something?

Footer

Copyright © 2025 · Wellness Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in

This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish.AcceptReject Read More
Privacy & Cookies Policy

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
Necessary
Always Enabled
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
SAVE & ACCEPT