As some of you may know, the unit I am covering with our World Issues class is Indigenous Peoples of the World. As part of our learning, we have chosen to do a compare and contrast of these Indigenous groups:– Suri of Ethiopia– Maori of New Zealand– Ariaal/Rendille of Kenya– First Nations of Canada (Manitoba focus) With this in mind I have been trying to collect First Nations online resources to assist in our learning and, to be honest, I haven’t found as much as I though I would. I wanted to share what I have found… Read More
Canadian History Class
On Friday I shared what was going on in my World Issues class and now it is time to find out what has been happening in Canadian History. I didn’t mean to take so long to make this post but I had many pictures that featured students and I wanted to be sure on our division’s picture release policy before I posted anything. This was the title screen of my PowerPoint I used as part of our learning! The entire unit that I started has been focusing on “British Colonial Rule” following the fall of New… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 41
This week I am featuring two great resources that I am using in the classroom during student teaching, plus one neat one that I found online and wanted to share! Not only have I used these resources myself, but I have been recommending them to other teachers as well so I hope you like them too 🙂 As always, I will be adding these to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading. 1 ) Canada 1812 – Forged in Fire– This website features film clips, informational articles, images, and an incredibly detailed (over 100 pages)… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 40
Student teaching is in full swing and I have officially been teaching all of my classes now except ICT. Unfortunately we have had so many extracurricular activities (cross country meet, picture day, admin day, etc) that we had to push back my start time. I don’t mind though because it makes it a smoother transition if I get to start each of my classes spaced out! I also have exciting news! I have officially joined the “cool kid club” as it is being called on Twitter and bought my very own iPhone! I’ve already been using… Read More
Remind 101
As you may know, I started student teaching again this week but have only been observing my cooperating teachers so far (I start teaching Canadian History tomorrow). In these few short days I have heard the following: “I forgot that at work.“ “I was so busy last night by the time I got home I forgot.“ “I can’t remember that!“ “That was due?!“ “Oh right, we’re doing that today…. I don’t have it.“ I get it, our students are very busy and most of them have afterschool jobs, work one (or more jobs), care for younger… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 39
Today is our first day back student teaching at “S-School” but instead of only one week, we are now here teaching full time for 5 full weeks! (I am actually still at our school as my fiance is assisting with the volleyball tournament going on this evening.) I am very excited about being back in the school and will be posting about my classrooms later this week (including pictures) and sharing some of my lesson plans (yay for freebies). Until then, here are some resources that I found this week. As always, I will be adding them to my… Read More
Whole Brain Teaching Wednesday: Class Dojo Tutorial
Have you been seeing posts around blog-land about the classroom management website, Class Dojo? While I didn’t see an immediate need to check it out, the website’s cute little characters drew me in and I knew I had to see what all the fuss was about. As I started exploring around some of the features I immediately began thinking of how this could be customized to create a super cute, interactive, WBT Scoreboard!! If you’re naturally drawn to tech stuff this might be perfect for your classroom or, as Coach B often mentions, this could be the perfect… Read More
Resources To Start Off Your Week 38: Thanksgiving Edition!
It is Thanksgiving weekend!! I have spent all weekend visiting family, celebrating birthdays (my own and my dad’s) and eating some amazing food 🙂 One of the things I am thankful for is all of the amazing resources out there that can assist our student’s learning. Here are some great ones that I found this week and will be adding them to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading. 1 ) Urlist– Have you ever wanted to use webquests/internet scavenger hunts in your classroom but never had an easy way to put them together? Urlist is… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 37
This week is the LAST full week of classes before we head back student teaching!! I hope to post an extra long edition of Resources To Start Off Your Week next week to celebrate the long week but for now, here are three great resources I’ve found this week. As always, I will be adding these to my lists of resources under the Fav Websites heading. 1 ) Educational Technology & Mobile Learning– I just found this site but it could have definitely been part of my Best Resources for Finding Resources post! Mohamed (Med) strives to assist educators… Read More
Resources to Start Off Your Week 36
This week I found a really neat resource thanks to a fellow student teacher as well as a great science resource that is developed for the Manitoba Curriculum! As always, I will be adding these to my lists of resources on my Fav Websites page. 1 ) Sporcle– Sporcle is an online database of fun quizzes and trivia games on a multitude of different subjects. There are many educational quizzes that could be a great in-class activity to put up on the SMART Board, an activity for those students who are done early or even be used… Read More