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  • Using this patterns and algebra interactive notebooks unit changed how I teach math as much as how students learned and understood it.
    How to Make Patterns and Algebra Stick With Interactive Notebooks
    You've taught patterns before. You know...
  • Using projects in your social studies classroom is a great way to boost engagement. Check out cumulative project-based learning and how it can work for you.
    How Projects Can Transform Your Social Studies Lessons
    If you're like most teachers we...
  • If you are looking for ideas to organize a Remembrance Day assembly in your school, check out this post full of ideas.
    Easy to Use Remembrance Day Assembly Ideas
    Every school across Canada has held...
  • Let us help you use Brain Ninjas resources efficiently and easily. These tips will help you get and stay organized so you can teach like a ninja.
    How to Use Brain Ninjas Resources Like a Pro
    Teachers managing multiple print and digital...
  • How to Celebrate Asian Heritage Month in Canada
    Every year in May we celebrate...
  • You can excite your elementary students to learn French by teaching them all about French Canadian celebrations. We put together lessons and activities that can help inspire your students about French culture while you teach the basics of the French language. These lessons are designed for teachers who are not native speakers so come learn more.
    How to Learn French With French Canadian Celebrations
    Every year, Francophone communities across Canada...
  • Create these adorable watercolour love trees for Valentine's Day, World Kindness Day, Earth Day or Pink Shirt Day. They make a great bulletin board and our post features step by step instructions for your elementary classroom. Come read the whole post.
    How to Make Valentine's Day Love Trees
    Do you need a Valentine's Day...
  • Do your students need a fun way to share what they are reading in class? This is a great twist on literature circles and book clubs that your students will enjoy. Come read the whole post and get some ideas for your upper elementary or middle school language arts lessons.
    Give Your Reading Instruction an Easy Twist
    For years we've done Literature Circles...
  • Teach your elementary aged scientists the scientific method while teaching safety and procedures during experiments. Come get this free scientific method lesson.
    How to Teach the Scientific Method in Your Elementary Classroom
    The scientific method has been around...
  • We like to try teaching our students new watercolour techniques that will make their paintings more realistic. Being elememtary generalists means we're not experts but we've broken down this watercolour candy cane lesson so you can try it out with your students. It's a great Christmas art project, but more importantly you can teach students how to add light and shadow to their art projects to make them come alive.
    Sweet and Simple Two-Colour Watercolour Candy Cane Paintings
    We love to teach students new...
  • Teaching your students to calculate area can be a challenge, but we've pulled together great ideas to help introduce, practice, review and assess how students measure area.
    How to Teach Students to Measure Area
    The biggest mistake students often make...
  • 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.
    Teach Your Students How to Create Line Plots
    Most students feel comfortable making a...
  • 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.
    Inspiring Ways to Celebrate the Festival du Voyageur
    Each year, we organize a Festival...
  • 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!
    Dig Up Dinosaurs in Alberta With These Amazing Activities
    Most children go through a phase...
  • Teaching geography skills if a life skill your students need. Come learn some of the different ways we embed geography skills throughout our lessons.
    Geography Skills Your Students Need to Know
    Teaching geography skills is one of...
  • 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.
    Save Time With this Christmas Art Collection
    Does your school ask you to...
  • 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.
    Fun Ways to Review Map Reading With Your Students
    Every year, we have to practice...
  • 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.
    Remembrance Day Resources for Canadian Classrooms
    Over the years we've organized so...
  • 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.
    Winter Art Projects That Will Warm Your Heart
    If you're an elementary generalist, you...
  • 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.
    Make the Best of Your Natural Resources Lessons
    What do you think of when...
  • Plotting on the Cartesian Plane During Math Class
    The Cartesian plane was named after...
  • How to Teach Human Body Systems to Young Scientists
    Everyone needs to understand the basic...
  • How to Teach Students About the Earth's Spheres
    The new Alberta science curriculum asks...
  • How to Teach Integers With Positive and Negative Numbers
    In upper elementary, we're asked to...
  • Ways to Teach Classifying Triangles
    Triangles are fundamental shapes in your...
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  • Using this patterns and algebra interactive notebooks unit changed how I teach math as much as how students learned and understood it.
    How to Make Patterns and Algebra Stick With Interactive Notebooks
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  • Using projects in your social studies classroom is a great way to boost engagement. Check out cumulative project-based learning and how it can work for you.
    How Projects Can Transform Your Social Studies Lessons
    If you're like most teachers we...
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    The Sweetest Way to Teach Self-Assessment
    Here's the truth: students don't always...

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