About the store
I retired in June 2019 after 35 years as a teacher, including 31 as a teacher-librarian. I've taught at all grade levels except senior high school, both in the classroom and as a teacher-librarian, partnering with classroom teachers. Canadian teacher-librarians are subject specialists - our subject is information: helping students determine what is needed, how to find it, how to evaluate it (a MUST in the Disinformation Age), how to shape it and how to present it to one's audience, which is why the vast majority of my resources are geared to curriculum topics, rather than the library/learning commons. I have always said, when asked what I taught, "I had the best job in the school!"
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Insuring and Maintaining a Canadian Vehicle Outside BC and Manitoba (CANADA)
As with my products for BC and Manitoba students (where insurance is wholly handled by Crown corporations), this one tackles the subject of the costs of insurance and upkeep of a vehicle everywhere else in Canada. Your students will also look at the relative merits of gas versus electric vehicles; leasing a vehicle, as an option to buying and maintaining a car, is also discussed; and 2 slides discuss insurance programs for most provinces. But the main part of this presentation looks at the vario
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Insuring and Maintaining a Vehicle in Manitoba (CANADA)
As with my product for BC students, this one tackles the subject of the costs of insurance and upkeep of a vehicle in the province of Manitoba. Your students will also look at the relative merits of gas versus electric vehicles; leasing a vehicle, as an option to buying and maintaining a car, is also discussed; and 2 slides discuss MPI's insurance program. But the main part of this presentation looks at the various costs involved in maintaining one’s vehicle. In the ambitious, but practical, ass
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Superheroes Saving the Day and Saving Money!
In 2016 VISA and Marvel Comics teamed up to produce three entertaining and informative comic books related to wise financial practices. In 'Avengers Save the Day', Nova gets some tips on financial literacy in general and saving up for his sister's birthday present in particular from some of his 'colleagues' while they're thwarting an attempted bank robbery. This FREE product contains a Powerpoint slide set and a worksheet to help your students evaluate and rank 4 of the main characters' financia
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: How to Avoid Going Into Debt
Provinces and territories across Canada include, to one degree or another, financial literacy in their curricula; the topic of this product should be a basic 'tool' in all Canadian math teachers' toolkits. After listing some rather startling statistics on the current state of collective Canadian debt, and pointing students towards the basics of making a financial plan, students are offered 2 assignment options to learn about how to avoid going into debt in the first place: (1) watching an epis
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: Managing Your Chequing Account
Managing a chequing account is an important step in a young person's financial life. This product covers the basics of writing a cheque; what to do and what NOT to do in order to avoid 'bouncing' a cheque; ways to protect one's account. The tasks are the very definition of 'hands-on training': your students will practice keeping a cheque register by listing a series of fictional payments by cheque and gain practice in writing cheques. Worksheets and answer keys are provided. Although this produc
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Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Mortgages
When you were going through the process of getting your first mortgage, don’t you wish someone had walked you through the basics sometime beforehand? This product starts with 8 questions that prospective home buyers should be considering as they plan for their purchase. Three worksheets help your students summarize, synthesize and apply what they’ve learned from the presentation (answer keys are provided). NOTE: Although this product is specifically created for the BC Workplace Math 11 course, i
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy: Vehicles (BC only)
This product, part of my ‘The Big Stuff’ series on 9 aspects of financial literacy, tackles the subject of the costs of maintenance and upkeep of a vehicle. Your students will also look at the relative merits of gas versus electric vehicles; leasing a vehicle, as an option to buying and maintaining a car, is also discussed; 2 slides discuss ICBC’s insurance program. But the main part of this presentation looks at the various costs involved in maintaining one’s vehicle. In the ambitious, but prac
10th - 12th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Also included in: 'The Big Stuff' of Financial Literacy Bundle
Financial Literacy for Canadian High Schoolers: You're Working Part-Time
This product focuses on the topics of gross and net pay; the TD1 tax form required by employers for the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA); and the bigger topic of filing a tax return, which all part-time workers, including students, should do (the advantages of doing so are outlined in one slide). As such, this product is relevant to ALL Canadian students, no matter at what grade level these topics are addressed. (For non-BC teachers there's an alternative title slide). Two worksheets are included; on
9th - 11th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian High Schoolers: Suppertime Economics
When I was teaching I always either looked for or created projects that were practically-oriented and that gave my students a 'real-life experience', especially in areas like math. For BC grade 9 math teachers (and others across Canada, too), here it is. The assignment is presented as a plausible 'scenario'. You may have students who are already making meals for their families; this product takes it to the next level, i.e., they're required to create a budget in order to plan meals within a fixe
8th - 10th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: Comparison Shopping: Best Buy?
As with my products Buying a Bike, Sleepover Economics and Saturday at the Mall, this product has been created specifically for the BC math curriculum - this one, at the grade 8 level - but it's suitable for ALL Canadian teachers. Comparison shopping for the best buy is what all savvy shoppers do; with this product, your students will learn the basic operations of math that will empower them to do it, too. Two Youtube videos from teacher 'Mr. J.' walk them, step-by-step, through the process o
7th - 9th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: Saturday at the Mall: Shopping&Eating
This product, part of my 'Financial Literacy for Canadian Middle Schoolers' series, is specifically created for BC's grade 7 math curriculum, focusing on financial literacy in terms of becoming familiar with vocabulary related to sales, and being able to calculate sales tax and GST on purchases of goods and meals - but it's suitable for ALL Canadian teachers. Included are a chart of basic finance-related vocab, specific to shopping; a second chart of all 13 provincial/territorial sales tax rates
6th - 8th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: First Steps: Sleepover Economics
This is my second product for my 'Financial Literacy for Canadian Middle Schoolers' series (the first one has to do with buying a bike); this one is specifically created for BC's grade 6 math curriculum, focusing on financial literacy in terms of simple budgeting - but it's suitable for ALL Canadian teachers. In this product, your students will learn about two types of budgets used for planning for food for an event: a per-person amount and a total-dollar-amount. Students will use basic math ope
6th - 8th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
Financial Literacy for Canadian Students: First Steps: Buying a Bike!
I'm launching my 'Financial Literacy for Canadian Middle Schoolers' series with this product, specifically created for BC's grade 6 math curriculum, focusing on financial literacy in terms of simple budgeting - but it's suitable for ALL Canadian teachers. In this product, you'll be taking your students through a 5-step process of making a budget in order to meet the goal of buying a bicycle. Students will use basic math operations to figure out sales tax(es) and total price before determining h
6th - 8th
Basic Operations, Financial Literacy
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About the store
Experience
I retired in June 2019 after 35 years as a teacher, including 31 as a teacher-librarian. I've taught at all grade levels except senior high school, both in the classroom and as a teacher-librarian, partnering with classroom teachers. Canadian teacher-librarians are subject specialists - our subject is information: helping students determine what is needed, how to find it, how to evaluate it (a MUST in the Disinformation Age), how to shape it and how to present it to one's audience, which is why the vast majority of my resources are geared to curriculum topics, rather than the library/learning commons. I have always said, when asked what I taught, "I had the best job in the school!"
Teaching style
Enthusiastic! I was terribly shy as a child, died a thousand deaths when I had to get up for an oral presentation in front of my classmates. But as a teacher, I could get up and talk all the live long day, without notes, because teaching was (and still is) my passion, and kids are amazingly accepting, forgiving and encouraging - I drew energy from them! My curricular interests are inquiry, cross-curricular, project-based learning (PBL) and although I never taught STEM, I think it's an awesome vehicle for learning. You'll see that A LOT of my projects list 'critical thinking' as a keyword; that's because I believe that in these days in which we are living it IS critical for kids to develop this particular thinking skill.
Awards & shining teacher moments
nominated as Teacher of the Year (2012)
My own education history
I earned my B.Ed.,with an emphasis on social studies and language arts, from the University of Victoria (1978); subject courses for teacher-librarianship (1982, UVic) and earned my M.Ed. in teacher-librarianship from the University of British Columbia (1996).
Additional biographical information
My store's name comes from a nickname one of my fave gr. 10 students gave me, the one-and-only year I taught in a junior high school. I'm a third-generation Canadian on my dad's side, fourth-generation on my mum's; an avid and wide reader; a diehard cross-stitcher; and a lifelong learner. Visit my Pinterest page @ https://www.pinterest.ca/ConantheLibrarian/
If you need to contact me, please do so at lmlconsu@telus.net.
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