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Mining for Chocolate Diamonds
Yet another geography simulation using food! And the students just love it. Just after I began teaching in Canada in 2003, a copy of a “Chocolate Chip Mining” activity was shared with me by a more senior colleague. It was to be used during our unit on industry in the Grade 9 Geography classes. I…
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a High School Teacher’s Diary: planting seeds in the classroom
The following is essentially a follow-up to the post “6 Tips for Gardening in the Classroom”, posted a few months ago. I decided to do a diary type format so I could capture my thoughts while the event was in progress. As I am posting this about 5 days later, I would like to add…
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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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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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Simulating Plate Tectonics
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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.
