Social studies- Learnings from Drawing on children’s “sense of place”, Hutchison, 2007
3 ways I might address some of the five strategies suggested by Hutchison (2007) -- how, why and what I would hope to see as a result....
Social studies- Teaching Social Justice
The aim of education is to provide the next generation with the skills and knowledge they need to become active members of societies. Our...
STEM- Design challenge
For STEM we had a design challenge. My challenge was to create a toy for my daughter to play in the car. I decided to make an abacus. I...
Foundations- Faces of bulling
We looked at all the different players of bullying and what they may look like in our point of views. #foundationII #socialjustice
Dig Lit - Kist et al, Web 2.0 in the Elementary Classroom: Portraits of Possibilities (2010)
3 things I found it very interesting that the teacher Kelly Doyle introduced blogging to her students at grade 1. I like the idea of...
Foundation - Peer Review search
Kinset and Moore (2015) Narrative structure in Inquiry-based learning. Primus 25(3) p.212-220. This article takes about bringing inquiry...
Dig lit- Digital device contract
Digital device contract At the beginning of the year start by co-create using student friendly language (sticky notes brainstorm). If...
Teacher Students call and response
#classroommanagment
Foundation II- the 6 Cs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFg9bcW7Bk #foundationII #ted
STEM II - Design process in the classroom
The Ontario science and technology curriculum highly encourages scientific inquiry and problem solving. Each unit has aspects if inquiry...
