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6 Tips for Gardening Activities in the Classroom
No classroom activity has ever been more welcomed than planting vegetable seeds. It starts with smiling faces and dirty hands, and ends with senses of pride and accomplishment. And it is the gift that keeps on giving. The activity was less than a success my first time around – not having enough soil, pots or…
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Chromebook Abuse & How to Manage it
I cannot tell you how frustrated and actually, angry I have been over the past couple of years about students abusing an expensive resource that has been offered to them to use for their benefit for free (yes, parents pay taxes etc. etc. …). Besides the everyday struggle to get the students to plug them…
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Chromebook Tracker
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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.
