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.

Teacher Off Topic

The Gray Van Podcast

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.

Questionable Morals (Aesop’s Fables) Podcast

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.

How do you work with someone you don’t like? Podcast

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.

What does the U.S. Constitution actually say? Podcast

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.

Practice Makes Perfect Podcast

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 […]

The Fairy Tale Magic Complaint Department – Podcast

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.

A berry nutty episode! Podcast

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.

What does “carpe diem” mean? Podcast

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.

What’s in a fart? Podcast

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.

How many senses do we have? Podcast

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.

Why is the Great Wall of China the only man-made thing you can see from the moon? Podcast

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.

Making Mistakes 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.

How Come Hello Kitty and the Mona Lisa Are So Well-Known? Podcast

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.

How Is Neptune Different from North America? Podcast

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.

What’s up with the characters’ names in Harry Potter? Podcast

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.