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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.

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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.
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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.

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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

Remembrance Day Resources for Canadian Classrooms

by BrainNinjasWP

If you are looking for Remembrance Day resources to use in your Canadian elementary classroom, come check out this post. We've pulled together all our resources and put them in one place.

Over the years we’ve organized so many Remembrance Day assemblies that we’ve lost track of everything we’ve done. That’s why it’s time to put together one post where all our Remembrance Day resources can be found in one place. Learn ways of observing Remembrance Day with some of the activities we have done in our schools over the years.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Art, Art Lessons, Canadian History, Holidays, Holidays and Seasonal, Remembrance Day, Remembrance Day Art Lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers

Winter Art Projects That Will Warm Your Heart

by BrainNinjasWP

Check out these winter art projects that can be used in your elementary classroom. You don't need to be an art specialist to teach students to love art. We use painting, sculpting and printmaking to show off the best part of winter.

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 with some favourites. Come read about some of the ways we help our students create beautiful works of art while teaching those valuable art outcomes through winter art projects.

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Make the Best of Your Natural Resources Lessons

by BrainNinjasWP

We have written resources to use to teach your students about natural resources. Students will learn how the resources are extracted, which are renewable and how they are used. Come take a look and get the lessons you need.

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. Come learn about some of the lessons and activities we use to teach students about natural resources.

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons Tagged With: Alberta science, Collaborative Posters, Earth Systems, Energy, Lesson Plans, natural resources, science, Science Lessons, Teachers Pay Teachers

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