“How It’s Made” videos used to learn summarization technique
Type “How It’s Made Episodes” into Youtube’s search line. Choose a video from this series that sparks your interest. The …
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Australia’s Last Aboriginal Police Tracker–inferential skills saved lives
Australian Aboriginal police tracker Barry Port has just retired from the Queensland police force after 33 years. His …
Dancing Fingers Video and Inference Questions
Target Audience: Grade 10-12 Read the questions below and then watch the video twice with one of the questions in mind. …
Proud of Autism’s Mathematical Gifts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR36jrx_L44 Jake Barnett will graduate this year with a Master’s degree from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, …
Japanese box-maker video and questions requiring inferential skills
Have your students watch the video twice and then have them use their inferring skills to answer the following: …
Earth Day Activities
Earth Day Activities in most schools drive me crazy because I don’t think they are very environmental at all. Three …
Topical Words
http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm World Wide Words, created by Michael Quinion, is a wonderful site that investigates …
What’s the difference between…?
An alternative to looking up definitions of new words as vocabulary expansion, is to choose near-synonyms and have a discussion …
Maker Fairs for Children in Toronto
Together, Kids Learning Code, Maker Kids, TIFF and Toronto Public Library, have developed comprehensive, maker curriculum for educators who work in formal and informal learning …
The Man With The Violin by Kathy Stinson
The Man with the Violin by Kathy Stinson and illustrated by Dušan Petričić is a wonderful picture book based on the true story of the famous …
