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Enseigner les sciences et les technologies au secondaire
Pourquoi les sciences et les technologies sont-elles importantes? En quoi consiste l’activité scientifique et technologie? Quel rôle la modélisation et l’analogie peuvent-elles jouer? C’est à ce genre de questions et à bien d’autres que cet ouvrage vise à répondre.
Place-Based Scientific Inquiry: A Practical Handbook for Teaching Outside
Get outside and connect your science class with nature! This handbook will help you get your students to connect science with the real world with project-based learning.
Teach for Climate Justice: A Vision for Transforming Education
In this great book, author Tom Roderick argues for engaging students in environmental education through passion and joy rather than fear of climate change.
Storytelling with Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity
Change the way you assess students by assigning multimedia digital storytelling projects. Author Michael Hernandez offers practical advice for teachers on how to plan these projects for the classroom.
How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us about Difference, Connection, and Belonging
Author Jodi Rodgers argues that neurodiverse students can teach us as much as we teach them. Told through stories of her own teaching experiences, she shows the universality of the quest for belonging.
Tale-Bot Pro Classroom Set
This entry-level learning robot speaks 10 languages and comes with interactive maps. It will be sure to engage children in learning basic coding concepts.
The Cure for Burnout: How to Find Balance and Reclaim Your Life
Author Emily Ballesteros mixes psychology theory with scientific and cultural research to address burnout and help readers reclaim balance in their lives.
Particle Physics Brick by Brick: Atomic and Subatomic Physics Explained in Lego
There is nothing that our librarian loves more than a book with an unusual way of exploring a topic. This illustrated guide will lead you to a new understanding and a new way of explaining physics to students.
Code to Joy: Why Everyone Should Learn a Little Programming
Coding isn’t just for geeks and coders, it’s for anyone who uses a smart or slightly stupid device. Understanding basic programming will improve how we interact with devices and help us get more useful work out of them.
Information provided by ATA librarian Sandra Anderson.
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The End of Average
Challenges myths about assessment and grading practices.
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How to Teach Nature Journaling
This book connects nature to core subject ideas/skills.
Adedeji Bowoade
Ableism in Education: Rethinking School Practices and Policies.
Helps us understand the systemic changes our education system needs.
Joshua Lafleur
Concise Answers to Frequently asked Questions about Assessment and Grading.
Clarifies, sets a road map and extends thinking around assessment practices.
Sinead Dullaghan
The Huntress, The Alice Network, The Rose Code.
If you like historical fiction, Kate Quinn has a number of books set during or after WW II. Her books highlight the role of women during the war.
Andrea Mishio
I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids.
It makes you reflect on how, like us, kids can and do come with baggage. We need to remember that a lot happens outside the walls of our school.
