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ThatBelgianTeacher

Hi! My name is Erika. I am a teacher in Belgium. I teach English, maths and history. Creativity is one of my strengths as a teacher! And I'd like to share it with you!

Hi! My name is Erika. I am a teacher in Belgium. I teach English, maths and history. Creativity is one of my strengths as a teacher! And I'd like to share it with you!
Social media course 1
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Social media course 1

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This is a small course about social media for 12-14 year old. We talk about de benifits and disadvantages of social media, privacy, fake news and screentime. This is approximatly for 5 lessons.
Climate change course 2
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Climate change course 2

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This is a course about climate change. The first lesson is an introduction together with the teacher. Lessons 2-3-4-5-6 are webquests. The students will research the causes and the effects of climate change in 5 topics: overfishing and meat consumption plastic greenhouse gases urbanization deforestation
Climate change course 1
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Climate change course 1

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This is a course about climate change. You can choose to do the exercises together or let them do this on their own. The students will research the causes and the effects of climate change. But there is a big focus on what can we do differently in our daily life.
social media course 2
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social media course 2

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This is a small course about social media for 14-16 year olds. We talk about de benifits and disadvantages of social media, deepfakes, fake news and online challenges. This is approximatly for 5 lessons.
Sea Shanties worksheets
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Sea Shanties worksheets

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This is a worksheets about 3 popular sea shanties: Wellermen Drunken Sailor My mother told me The pupils are on a webquest to find history behind these sea shanties. Of course, the lyrics is included, so you can all sing along!
Precolumbian civilizations worksheets
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Precolumbian civilizations worksheets

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This is a worksheet about the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilization. We discuss the rise and fall of the Maya’s. Then we see the basics of who the Aztec and Incas are. At last, there is a task where the pupils take a look at these two civilizations and try to find the similarities and differences between them. They have to do a presentation.
Colonization through the story of Pocahontas
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Colonization through the story of Pocahontas

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This is work bundle about the colonization of the Native Americans by the British Empire. We start with the Disney story of Pocahontas and try to find the real story of Pocahontas. Who is she, who is John Smith, what happened, …? Then we continue with the colonization by the British Empire. Where did they colonize, why did colonize? What are the effects on the Native Americans? At last we try to link the discrimination of ethnic groups with what is happening today in the world. Can we recognize discrimination of ethnic groups? Where is it happening? How is it happening? I hope I don’t offend anyone with this work bundle. If I have, please contact me and we can discuss this. This is just me, a teacher in Belgium, trying to raise awareness on the impact of European colonization on ethnic groups.
Build your own city
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Build your own city

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This is a course about building your own city. The students work in groups. At the end of the course they can do a presentation about their city and explain how their city works. We will talk about: different societies values and norms humanity and worldview constitution democracy ecological cities creating a map of their city creating a website for their city
poster 'to be'
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poster 'to be'

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This is a poster about ‘to be’. You can find the affirmative and negative form of the verb on it. There are also example on how to form an inversion question and a question word question.
types of pronouns
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types of pronouns

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This is a poster about the pronouns. personal pronouns: subject and object possessive adjectives possessive pronouns reflexive pronouns demonstrative pronouns interrogative pronouns relative pronouns. Each type has an example.
have you ever
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have you ever

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This is a little game. Students work in pairs. Each group gets a bag with these cards in it. One student takes a card and asks the other student the question. They have to reply. They have to use ‘have you ever…’ to ask the question. They have to use ‘Yes, I have …/ No, I haven’t…’.