MPTCA 2025

Everyone is interested in food! Learn how to integrate food literacy into every subject of your pre-existing curriculum. Your little chefs can learn about topics such as: nutrition, reading labels, how to cook, geographical origins for recipes, and environmental factors involved in food production. This workshop will provide practical strategies and engaging activities to make food literacy a fun and integral part of your classroom. Discover how to inspire students to make healthier choices, understand the global impact of their food, and develop essential life skills through hands-on learning experiences. Join us to transform your teaching approach and ignite a passion for food literacy in your students!

Session Objectives:
1. Educators will incorporate nutrition, cooking, and environmental topics into various subjects.
2. Educators will use fun strategies to teach food origins, label reading, and nutrition.
3. Educators will teach essential life skills like cooking and healthy food choices through hands-on activities.

Expand your students curiosity about social studies as they become historians, geographers, and economists in their own right. Students learn to ask their own questions when they see an artifact or photograph the same as professionals would! Working from these questions, they then begin to put their investigative skills into action through the use of a unique Social Studies Toolbox created by Dominic. The Toolbox can be scanned into a smartphone and includes 10 elements designed to help students find answers to their questions. Each element has its own video to explain how it can be used. Students learn to use social networks, databases and statistics, interviews, interactive panoramas, surveys, recent and historical newspapers, maps, photographs, paintings, drawings and trends on the Internet for their research. This workshop shows you an effective and innovative way to support students as they explore inquiry-based learning.

Session Objectives:
1. Educators will learn to foster student-led questioning and research using the Social Studies Toolbox.
2. Educators will guide students in using diverse tools like social networks, databases, and interviews for their inquiries.
3. Educators will engage students by encouraging them to think like historians, geographers, and economists with interactive resources.