by cbrookallred | Apr 20, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
Contributed by Catherine Little. Students often have a hard time accepting and believing that white light is a composition of many colours of light. In this activity, students construct a homemade colour wheel in order to blend the primary colours together and see...
by cbrookallred | Apr 20, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Teaching Strategies
Written by Marina Imperio This article outlines the deconstruction and reconstruction of a lesson, Building towards Bad Water. The selected lesson was revised to incorporate each of the 5 elements considered important to teaching and learning science – inquiry,...
by msander | Apr 20, 2015 | All Science Teachers, Teaching Strategies
Tom Wujec from Autodesk presents some surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients?...
by msander | Apr 18, 2015 | All Science Teachers
Good science is a continual process, susceptible at many points to introduced errors and outright manipulation by the misguided and the devious. It’s critically important, as public faith in science continues to be tested, to take an honest look at some of the ways...
by cbrookallred | Apr 16, 2015 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
Written by Sara Trincao-Batra. To give context, this activity was done at the end of the Nutritional Science unit of SNC4M. I chose to do this activity at the end of the unit because the class I was teaching had a test review the next day. This activity was a great...
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