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Making Glaciers in the Grades 7-12 Classroom
Sometimes when teaching Geography with classes that are not too large (although I don’t know exactly what number means “too large” anymore!) I like to have the students engage in a collaborative hands-on learning activity to provide them with a better understanding of the results of probably the greatest erosional force on earth. After all,…
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Feel Good Friday’s
Feel Good Friday is my favorite day of the week, and the students too. Not just because there are two days of freedom ahead, but because it’s Feel Good Friday! Feel Good Friday was born out of the desire to let the students relax whilst being active in a community setting. As I had left…
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Simulating Plate Tectonics
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Simulating Plate Tectonics
I am not sure who created this wonderful activity. I was introduced to it just after the millennium by a colleague and I am still using it today. Simply using a Double Stuf Oreo cookie as a manipulative, students can reaffirm their learning about some of the key plate boundaries: convergent boundary, divergent boundary, transform…
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5 Google Search Tips for Students- Subscriber
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Classroom Supplies for New Teachers
Remember those days when your parents took you shopping for school supplies? My parents were always late in doing so, as they were shift workers and this was not priority. There were times where we were not overly well off, so there were no bells and whistles, like liquid paper. Only the rich kids had…
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5 Google Search Tips for Students
I had never heard the word ‘Google’ until I was an adult. Of course this is because Google, the web search engine company did not start until 1998. Back in the 1970s and 1980s when I was a kid, we turned to Funk & Wagnall’s encyclopedia for our school research projects. So, this meant trips…
Welcome!
I’m Robin, a high school Geography & History Teacher, who is also crazy about tourism education. The purpose of this blog is to share what I have learned from my own experiences as a 7-12 educator over the past 24 years. You might have a very different grade and subject niche and therefore different priorities and needs, but I do hope there is something here that helps make teaching better for you and your students.
