Ms. R's Learning Lab

Help your students build real-world financial literacy skills with this engaging and flexible lesson on understanding credit cards. Designed specifically for the Ontario Grade 8 Math curriculum, this resource supports students in developing critical thinking around borrowing, interest, and responsible financial decision-making. What’s Included:1. Prior Knowledge Activation – Four Corners Activity Kick off the lesson with an interactive Four Corners activity using the included Google Slides or pr

This Google Form is handy for when you need to ascertain what students know about adding and subtracting integers, are short on time (aren't we all), need an exit ticket/entrance ticket, and one that self-marks. This could also work for Grade 7's once adding and subtracting integers teaching has been introduced. This would make a quick exit ticket. There are a variety of assessment questions according to Bloom's taxonomy (knowledge/understanding, thinking and application questions). They are all

A quick 10 question exit ticket or quiz for Ontario Grade 8 Math students. All multiple choice which makes it easy on the educator to ascertain who knows how to add or subtract fractions. Has a variety of knowledge and understanding, application, and thinking questions to ensure not students have beyond computational know-how with adding and subtracting fractions.

This STEM activity is easy to organize and get students working collaboratively to learn about the engineering design process to build a zip-line. Curriculum links align well with the Ontario Science curriculum for Grade 7 and 8. Minimal materials are needed to complete this exciting and educational STEM activity. Includes Google Slides AND a link to a Google Doc with reflection questions and a rubric (easy to cut and paste the Google Doc rubric content into Google Classroom).

This Google Doc has the Ontario Math curriculum all on one document and is organized in a vertical chart format to allow easy planning for long range plans. Simply add in the month you are planning on completing each specific curriculum aspect and voila: long range plans are complete. There is also a section that allows for you to add in cross-unit references. For ex. if you wanted to tackle a curriculum item in Geography like infographics you could account for it there; Or Science could incorpo