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Welcome to the April Teachers' Nook from Westcott!
In This Issue:
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From the Teacher's Desk:
Build environmental awareness in the classroom
 Spring is an ideal time to learn about nature and the great outdoors. The Scientists in the School website has some excellent links to help you build environmental awareness in the classroom:
- Step-by-step instructions to help students create a seed museum and learn about germination and dissection. There is also a template and directions for making Symmetrical Math Art, using colourful seeds and beans.
- A printable Tree-Finders Guide. This booklet contains drawings with kid-appeal and is a good resource to help students identify common trees.
- Instructions for How to Make Friends with a Tree - This illustrated poster could be used as a model to help students write and design their own Ten Steps to Make Friends with a Tree poster.
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 Learn with puzzles
Challenge your class with puzzles!
- Dividing the 80 acre potato farm
- A chess set for PAMA
- Was there a slip-up at the Jolly Morphology Club?
Download a printable version of Ken Weber's puzzles >
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Classroom Activity: Earth Day is on April 22nd.
 This day was first celebrated in 1970. It has since become a day when people all over the world hold events to honour and celebrate the Planet Earth.
Education World has a site with experiments, games, and activities to help raise awareness and understanding of Earth Day. You will also find full instructions for an Earth Day WebQuest. This is a research activity that guides students to use online and library resources to discover the most important environmental issue facing the earth. Students work in competing teams to present their findings. The winner receives a (fictional) one million dollars in funding form the Help Our Word Foundation.
A little song for you to sing with your students, to the tune of This Old Man:
THIS OLD EARTH
This old earth
Needs our help
To stay fresh and clean and green
With a pick it up; pitch it in; and throw it in the can--
This old earth needs a helping hand. |
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Travelling with type 1 diabetes
 With summer break right around the corner, many families are getting ready to travel and have an adventure. For someone with type 1 diabetes (T1D), it is important to remember a few things before you leave home for extended periods of time.
Prepare, prepare, prepare! There is no such thing as being too prepared. Always have necessary items with you while you are travelling. Make sure that you have taken pre-cautions and can be ready for different circumstances.
To help take some of the stress of travel preparations, JDRF Canada has developed a toolkit that gives great tips and tricks to remember when you are travelling. To learn more about this toolkit, click here.
Safe travels! |
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