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On-Site Outdoor Education – Learning about Vegetation
When students returned to the classroom during the latter half of the covid-19 pandemic, there was almost always a class walk outside, every period, every day. The kids were outside ALOT- even when it was cold. But this was not for learning purposes- rather for fresh, contagion free air. These days, outside walkabouts are almost…
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Task Cards & Why You Need Them
If you are a secondary school teacher, task cards are probably not a common item in your tool kit. But let me tell you they should be. I was introduced to them from several vloggers on YouTube who were creating them for their elementary/primary classrooms last year and they can be a game changer! What…
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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.
