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Written by Lindsay Conrad, Instructional Coach at Percy Pegler I was lucky enough to attend “ Making Authentic Inquiry Work ”  sponsored by Natural Curiosity and Learning for a Sustainable Future. This was a great two-day inquiry institute where I learned about new resources and practical inquiry-based strategies to use in the classroom. I would like to share two amazing resources with you: Natural Curiosity is a teacher resource for building children’s understanding of the world through environmental inquiry.   Check out their website: http://www.naturalcuriosity.ca/ Under books they have a PDF downloadable version in both English and French of their handbook. This offers a guide to bring inquiry-based teaching practices into the classroom and how to make both the content and process of learning about the world more engaging and relevant to students. It gives many strategies and examples for how to make learning visible. Here is a quick link to the PDF versions: h...

  Hi All, Are you looking for some practical, authentic, inquiry driven, game based experiences for your Div II-IV Mathematics students?  This 45 minute session will look at MITs "Scratch" game development environment.  Scratch facilitates learning about numeracy, shape and space, patterning and statistical concepts in Mathematics by engaging students in the building and sharing of interactive online games.  Students can create and share games with their peers and can even load them on their personal devices.  These skills also transfer to the robotics work currently happening in CTF/CTS classrooms. Date : May 27, 2015 Time : 4:00pm – 4:45pm Location : Right Here! Registration : Visit https://plus.google.com/events/c8j4oam5s24vuod05nnptseo03c and click Yes for “I am planning to attend”. Note: If this is your first FSD Webinar it is beneficial to watch the intro video currently located above. Let me know if you have any questions, Yours in Learning, Doug