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**Unlock Your Students' FINANCIAL LITERACY with Our Comprehensive Stock Market Crash Course!** Give your students the hands-on experience they need to understand the world of investing and the stock market. This one-month crash course is designed to engage, educate, and empower kids with the knowledge of how the stock market works—while having fun along the way! And there’s no better way to learn than by actively trading real stocks like Tesla, Apple, and Roblox. **What you’ll get with this cour

The Reality of the Junior Split-Grade Classroom:There are roughly 194 days in the school year and over 60 math expectations to cover per grade. If you teach a split—or differentiate for wide gaps—you are tracking over 120 expectations simultaneously. You have an average of just 3.23 school days per topic before you have to move on. How do you hook the kid who "hates math," keep one grade level independently engaged while running a guided group with the other, and keep your sanity? What if you

The Reality of the School Year:There are roughly 194 days in the school year and over 60 math expectations to cover. That means you have an average of just 3.23 school days to teach an expectation before you have to march to the next one. When time is that tight, how do you hook the kid who has already decided they "hate math," introduce a complex concept, and keep your sanity? What if you had a ready-to-go, narrative hook for every single math expectation you are required to teach?Welcome to t

The Reality of the School Year:There are roughly 194 days in the school year and over 60 math expectations to cover. That means you have an average of just 3.23 school days to teach an expectation before you have to march to the next one. When time is that tight, how do you hook the kid who has already decided they "hate math," introduce a complex concept, and keep your sanity? What if you had a ready-to-go, narrative hook for every single math expectation you are required to teach?Welcome to t

The Reality of the School Year:There are roughly 194 days in the school year and over 60 math expectations to cover. That means you have an average of just 3.23 school days to teach an expectation before you have to march to the next one. When time is that tight, how do you hook the kid who has already decided they "hate math," introduce a complex concept, and keep your sanity? What if you had a ready-to-go, narrative hook for every single math expectation you are required to teach?Welcome to t

I've been teaching workshops for school boards and the ETFO Ontario teachers' union since 2015. Thousands of teachers and dozens of workshops! I'd love you to join me as I host three end-of-summer workshops: This TPT resource is a recorded workshop from Monday, August 26, 2025 Coding I'll be guiding you through an overview of the grade 1-6 curriculum and mentioning the 7th-8th grade curriculum. I will walk you through the basics of using the free SCRATCH coding website. You will leave with 2-3 a

The original Classroom Economy program is great! If you're unfamiliar with it and looking for a new classroom management program that blends financial literacy, then this can serve as a great introduction. But if you've been using Classroom Economy for a few years and want to expand on the existing program, then this is a great resource! Check out this video for more info. You'll receive: - over 20 videos for teachers to show their students how to venture through the program - These videos in

This coding workshop was designed for teachers and students to learn how to code and gives teachers content they can give directly to students. It’s packed with a dozen activities for you and your students to complete.   Before March Break 2022 (Ontario, Canada’s Spring Break), I shared a 3-day workshop with 140 teachers and students who were learning and teaching online. I have personally used these lesson ideas with students in grades 3 - 8. This is the full 3-day workshop and includes a 3 pag

Here's the BIG IDEA of this financial literacy lesson: I will know that a foreign currency is a type of money used in a different country. This resource will give teachers access to: Private teacher-only video to watch before the lesson.Teacher-only handout to review before the lesson,A free video to teach your students the lesson, and finally a,Worksheet for your students (with answers provided) that can be printed or uploaded right into Google Classroom.For a freebie teacher and student vide

Are you looking to add a touch of humor to your classroom while staying true to curriculum standards? Discover how to integrate laughter into your lessons with this 30-page ebook designed for Grade 4 and up. Inspired by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, this ebook presents 12 original lesson plans that blend entertainment with educational value. Each lesson incorporates a Jimmy Fallon clip to spark engagement and reinforce key curriculum concepts. Find more activities in my Educator's Fac

Here's the BIG IDEA of this financial literacy lesson: I will know the differences between credit and debt and how they can impact your finances. This resource will give teachers access to: Private teacher-only video to watch before the lesson.Teacher-only handout to review before the lesson,A free video to teach your students the lesson, and finally a,Worksheet for your students (with answers provided) that can be printed or uploaded right into Google Classroom.For a freebie teacher and stude

Here's the BIG IDEA of this financial literacy lesson: I will know that different amounts of money have different values because of exchange rates. This resource will give teachers access to: Private teacher-only video to watch before the lesson.Teacher-only handout to review before the lesson,A free video to teach your students the lesson, and finally a,Worksheet for your students (with answers provided) that can be printed or uploaded right into Google Classroom.For a freebie teacher and stu

A fun activity from my article from Canadian Teacher Magazine Jan/Feb 2017 edition.

Welcome! Here's the BIG IDEA of today's lesson: I will know what cryptocurrency is and why Bitcoin is important. The YouTube video that accompanies this handout can be found here: https://youtu.be/voJpiQJzQiQ Thanks for your interest. I appreciate it! This is episode 10 of my Financial Literacy series on YouTube. You can find more Financial Literacy and Coding content for your classroom below

This is the handout from a workshop on using Google in the classroom on August 2014. I outlined Google Drive, Docs, Forms, Sheets, and Slides in the first half of the workshop. In the second, I went into using YouTube, Google Earth, and some other Google applications. This is a 900+ word outline on the major parts I covered in the workshop.

This is the link from the article on the Durham School Board's website. You need an TPT account to download the file. It's free and the site is a great resource for educators. I hope you find this resource helpful in navigating the Skype Edu site and as a springboard for ways to use Skype in the classroom. The handout is for two workshops taught on Feb 13 for 79 teachers on how to use Skype in the classroom. For an article written about my class and I using Skype, click here: http://bit.ly/sk

I taught 3 workshops in our school district's Summer Institute 2014 and this is the handout for the second workshop entitled, "Everything Else Technology". The morning session was on using Google Apps and Docs. Instead of a 1 page, 400 word handout though, this one is 5 pages and 3000+ words with an overview of each and an example or two to try. Included are 10 of my favourite ways to use technology in a classroom. Topics range from parent-teacher communication, ideas for the flipped classroom

This is a lesson that was promised in an article I wrote in Canadian Teacher Magazine in the Sept/Oct 14 issue. (bit.ly/1BxF1Va) The two lessons in the article were Place Value and Symmetry lessons. This one here is a kinesthetic Geometry lesson that uses Frisbee Golf and Google Earth to teach Transformational Geometry. Included are step by step instructions on how to use Google Earth to complete the activity, as well as two worksheets. I've included the Ontario Geometry Curriculum Expectatio

This is a handout from the WIRED for Success Tech Conference from Nov, 2014. I presented 3 workshops and this is the handout from one of them. Included are 8 creative ideas to teach Math that all involved using technology at the point of learning and instruction. The appropriate content is for grades 4-6. Some carry over is appropriate for grade 7-8, but all of the types of technology are engaging for K-12. Some of the ideas have videos uploaded into my YouTube channel that are free to view as

Exactly as the title reveals, I want to liven up your assessment for students by using these 3 pieces of technology. Students will suddenly not be so bummed out when it's time for a quiz! Remember that Pixels affect Perception! Teach Smarter!