Resources for Teachers
For teachers, a number of resource packages are available filled with activities and ideas for the classroom built around themes from my books. Click on the title to access the information you need.
Teacher
Resource Guide for G is for Golden Boy: A Manitoba Alphabet
As with all Sleeping Bear alphabet books, a downloadable teacher package is available on the publisher's website. Puzzles, questionaires, activities...this package offers dozens of ways for students to interact with the material in G is in Golden Boy and to learn more about my home province of Manitoba.
Why do some people survive danger and disaster while others do not? Is it a matter of skill? Or is it
luck? And what, if anything, can we do to enhance our chances of survival in dangerous situations? Through the activities in
this package, students explore these and other questions on the topic of survival.
Who hasn't dreamed of finding treasure? Through the activities in this package, students look at treasure in its
many guises and examine the motives and methods of those who hunt for it as well.
Behind
every great idea in science or invention, there is fascinating story. The activities in this package explore the nature of discoveries,
large and small, accidental and purposeful, that affect us in so many ways every day.