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Elementary Money Math Made Simple
Presenter: Heather Montgomery Organization: Bank of Canada Museum Overview This webinar provides educators with a practical, classroom-ready introduction to teaching money, math, and financial literacy in the elementary grades. Heather Montgomery from the Bank of Canada Museum walks viewers through a wide range of free, curriculum-aligned resources designed to make money concepts engaging, hands-on, and …
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Inquiry-based learning with practical lessons using GIS in the geography indoor and outdoor classroom
This webinar will explore various lessons for the Grade 9, 11 and 12 geography curriculum and classroom. Topics will include food waste and litterless campaigns, neighbourhood thematic land use, climate change walks and Indigenous communities and water issues. Participants will come away with ready-to-teach lessons and assignments for the balance of semester two. Zoom …
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Building Community through Inquiry & Collaboration in the Secondary History and Civics Classroom
Students need to know each other to learn from each other. As students return to the classroom and face to face learning, many educators are seeing the need to rebuild a classroom community. This workshop will focus on tips for building community, ways to increase student engagement, collaborative learning strategies and practical strategies to gather …
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Framing Learning: Problem Solving and Innovation in Kindergarten
The Ontario Kindergarten Program is viewed through the lens of Four Frames of Learning. In this session, participants will dig deep into one of these frames: Problem Solving & Innovation. What does the frame look like in our classrooms? How can we facilitate purposeful, inquiry-based learning to strengthen problem solving skills? How can we document, …
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Not “Just” Playing: Inquiry in the Early Years
In this session, we will dig in and celebrate the authentic & meaningful learning that happens every day in Kindergarten through play. A blend of both theory and practical classroom examples will encourage participants to think carefully about how observed behaviours, conversations, and actions that occur in play-based learning relate directly to the Ontario Kindergarten …