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.

Michif is a mixed language, derived mainly from Cree and French. This workshop is an educational approach that allows teachers to integrate Metis languages, knowledge and perspectives into their teaching. This workshop is intended for teachers who wish to develop and apply basic knowledge about First Peoples for the benefit of all students (EQS 5), but who have difficulty navigating the range of resources available. By exploring the web resources of the Michif Awakening Kit, participants will discover the mechanisms of this language, but above all they will see how the use of Michif educational resources can make it possible to achieve a multitude of learning outcomes in the program (in French, arts, social studies, science, well-being), while working towards reconciliation. Specifically, teachers will explore the various resources available on the website. On the practical side, participants will work to adapt the available resources to their needs, in line with recommended good practices for making authentic and respectful use of the knowledge shared by Elders. Participants will leave the workshop with access to multiple lesson plans and corresponding resources.

Session Objectives:
1. TQS #5 Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, M tis and Inuit
2. TQS # 2 and 4

Join Inside Education for this dynamic interactive workshop for K-6 teachers, where we will delve into the environmental science and natural resource components of the new Alberta Science Curriculum. We will share hands-on tools, tricks, and methods to use inexpensive classroom supplies for engaging educational experiences inside and outside your outdoor classroom space. We will teach you some Monday-morning activities and showcase our new no-cost outdoor-focused toolkit to help scaffold learning through the new Organizing Ideas. Three lucky teachers will walk away with their very own toolkit! Every teacher will leave feeling inspired and prepared with resources and activities to foster inquiry-based learning, critical thinking, and environmental stewardship skills within their classrooms.

Session Objectives:
1. Teachers will takeaway a variety of Monday-morning ready hands-on environmental science and natural resource activities
2. Teachers will takeaway practical strategies for integrating hands-on learning into the Alberta science curriculum.
3. Teachers will takeaway a network of fellow teachers for ongoing support and idea sharing.

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.

How can we adapt our teaching and learning strategies to meet the needs of 21st-century learners? Join me to explore innovative curriculum, planning, and assessment approaches that empower students to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
This session will focus on the K-6 curriculum. However, the information provided will apply to all grades.
Please bring a laptop, a writing utensil, and any curriculum documents that you would like to work with.
*This is a working session*

Session Objectives:
1. Teachers will learn basics of concept-based curriculum
2. Teachers will learn and explore learning transfer
3. Teachers will explore how the new curriculum is designed to promote cross-curricular teaching and learning

Spark interest and engagement by using online simulations to model natural phenomena. Support learners in making sense of complex scientific concepts with visual models. Students develop a deeper sense of how a system works by interacting with variables and observing connections within systems. Best practices for teaching with Gizmos are modeled. Access to Gizmos for K-6 teachers has been provided by Alberta Education. Teachers are encouraged to bring a device.

Session Objectives:
1. Pedagogy
2. Science
3. Technology