A bi-weekly podcast for families and kids. A teacher answers questions that can't be answered during class - the questions may be off topic, they may be complicated, they may be too hard, they may take too long to answer and there's only five minutes until dismissal. She also goes on other tangents.
Length: 5:59 A sort-of-scary, real-life story for the week of Halloween. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 5:48 A fable teaches a moral, but is every lesson worth learning? Some are well worth questioning. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 5:50 How do you work with someone you don’t like? Benjamin Franklin might have figured this one out! Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 7:02 In which the ToT attempts to translate four pages of the most American of history into kidspeak. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 5:12 Keep on doing what you’re doing. Even if it doesn’t come easy, you can improve. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 4:48 Five fractured fairy tales, cobbled together. In a perfect world, the voice of the Fairy Tale Magic Complaint Department would have been Kristen Schaal, and I would have been able to pay her oodles of money. Oh well. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d […]
Length: 5:42 Fruits and veggies and vocab, oh my! Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 2:05 Now I’ve got the song from Newsies stuck in my head. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 3:13 What do you call it when the Queen of England breaks wind? A noble gas! But seriously nobody farts argon or krypton or neon or radon, as far as I know. Go to teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 4:08 A simple question without a clear-cut answer. Check teacherofftopic.com to see the show notes. Email teacherofftopic@gmail.com if you have a question you’d like answered.
Length: 7:44 Why is the Great Wall of China the only man-made thing you can see from the moon? Short answer: it isn’t. Resources used to put together this episode can be found in the show notes.
Length: 6:03 How can I stop being so scared of making mistakes? Resources used to research and write this podcast can be found in the show notes. No goats were harmed in the making of this podcast.
Length: 7:00 How come Hello Kitty and Mona Lisa are so well-known, so popular? Resources used to research and write this podcast are in the show notes.
Length: 6:29 How is Neptune different from North America? I mean, aside from the obvious? (Because otherwise this sounds like a pretty silly question.) Resources used to research and write this podcast are found in the show notes.
Length: 8:05 What’s up with the character names in Harry Potter? Seriously, where did author J.K. Rowling come up with some of those? Resources used to research and write this podcast are in the show notes.
Length: 7:38 Blue whales – they’re big, but just how big? And are they, like, a big deal? Resources used to research and write this podcast can be found in the show notes.
Length: 11:23 Helen of Troy is a famous character from Greek legend, renowned for her beauty – but what else? Beyoncé is a famous singer from the present. What makes these women the same? What makes them different? Resources used to research and write this podcast can be found in the show notes.
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