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.

Saviez-vous qu environ 7 jeux LEGO sont achet s mondialement chaque seconde? Ces briques fort populaires peuvent aider les l ves r ellement comprendre le sens du nombre. Les fractions ne repr sentent qu une fraction de ce qu on peut enseigner l aide des LEGO . Vous apprendrez comment les utiliser pour enseigner la g om trie, la gestion de donn es, l alg bre, la mesure, les quations, le sens du nombre, les op rations et encore plus.

Session Objectives:
1. Apprendre illustrer des concepts comme les fractions, la g om trie, et les op rations l aide des briques LEGO .
2. D couvrir des m thodes cr atives pour int grer les LEGO dans les le ons et rendre l apprentissage des math matiques plus engageant.
3. Concevoir des activit s collaboratives o les l ves utilisent les LEGO pour appliquer les concepts math matiques de mani re ludique.

Transform your whole classroom into a mini-economy in connection with a specific project that is ready to integrate into your curriculum. Students gain understanding of currency, borrowing, online shopping, taxes, buying supplies, the impact of counterfeit currency, selling services and more as they explore options in this project.

Session Objectives:
1. Educators will learn to incorporate a mini-economy project into their curriculum, helping students understand currency, borrowing, and online shopping and more
2. Educators will guide students in exploring real-world financial concepts such as taxes, buying supplies, and the impact of counterfeit currency.
3. Educators will support students in developing entrepreneurial skills by engaging them in activities like selling services and managing a classroom economy.

Did you know that LEGO has superpower potential for your science classroom? By their modular structure, they can be used to assemble a variety of models, that can then be used to test a hypothesis and come up with a conclusion. Using LEGO, students will learn about testing the effect of an independent variable on a dependent variable, while being able to control many other variables. You will be surprised that LEGOs are not only used to teach about simple machines, but can also be used to cover a wide variety of themes in your science and technology curriculum. Everyone feels like a superhero when learning is this fun!

Session Objectives:
1. Educators will learn to use LEGO models to help students test hypotheses and understand the relationship between independent and dependent variables.
2. Educators will discover how to incorporate LEGO into various science and technology themes beyond simple machines.
3. Educators will develop strategies to make learning fun and engaging by using LEGO to create interactive and hands-on science lessons.