by msander | Apr 8, 2019 | All Science Teachers, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques is taking his first spacewalk this morning. Saint-Jacques and U.S. astronaut Anne McClain tackled battery and cable work outside the International Space Station on Monday. It was the third spacewalk in just 2½ weeks for the...
by msander | Apr 5, 2019 | Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Teaching Strategies
This resource is a research project through the medicine wheel of learning. Task: In pairs or triads, consult the following media sources to complete the ‘Medicine Wheel of Learning’ graphic organizer and complete the research/writing prompts based on a particular...
by msander | Apr 4, 2019 | Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
Marshmallows are a tasty, fluffy staple of summertime s’mores, campouts, and backyard barbecues. There really isn’t very much to them, either. The scientific way to see what really fills a marshmallow is to put it to the Marshmallow Masher test. You use a property of...
by msander | Apr 3, 2019 | All Science Teachers, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
A leaked copy of a government report on climate change says that since 1948, Canada’s annual average temperature over land has warmed 1.7 C, with higher rates seen in the North, the Prairies and northern British Columbia. Source: Canada warming at twice the...
by msander | Apr 2, 2019 | All Science Teachers
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she...
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