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Solution Chemistry – a video and lab sheet for virtual students
Solutions Lab Sheet for Virtual Students - submitted by Leila Knetsch Are you back to school and doing all of the Chemistry labs for grade 11? But wait! What do the virtual students do? I have created an at home lab with a video to give students at home an...
Green Chemistry – Beyond Benign website & resources
This is an interesting website full of resources for elementary, middle school and high school. Attached is an interesting lab activity (Lettuce seed assay) that could be done for 11U Chemistry or 11U Biology about the toxicity of lettuce seeds from this...
Mandelbrot Set – The Beauty of Complex Numbers written by Rob Knetsch
The Mandelbrot Set By Robert Knetsch Rob has had many years of teaching Physics and Math in the private school system and loves abstract thinking and the history of new math discoveries In the past few decades, fractals have become a popular visual tool to observe...
New teacher perspective: Advice to my Teacher Candidate Self – Gopena Thevakumar
New teacher perspective: Advice to my Teacher Candidate Self - Gopena Thevakumar Gopena Thevakumar is a secondary science teacher with the York Region District School Board. She has completed a Master of Education with a focus on teaching and learning. Gopena strives...
Lessons from the Earth and Beyond – Learning from the Stars
Resource launch from FNMIEAO - Lessons from the Earth and Beyond - submitted by Janice Williams Together Sandra Indian (Ojibways of Onigaming) and Jodie Williams (Co-Chair of FNMIEAO) will provide teachers with an over of the new resource Lessons From Beyond. During...
Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant
This is for the teachers that love Biology and Math! It is called Doodling in Math: Spirals, Fibonacci and Being a Plant. It connects to MCR3U - Working with Discrete Functions - Recursive Formulas. It also connects to 11U Biology (Plants Unit) - repeating numbers...
Interactive Biology Youtuber Leslie Samuels – Making Biology Fun!
Interactive Biology YouTuber Leslie Samuels - Making Biology Fun! - submitted by Leila Knetsch After watching ASAP Science's excellent 12 min video, " We need to talk about diversity in science" , I realized that almost 100% of the videos that I was showing in Science...
Time article – Diversity needed in the Veterinary field
Pet Owners Are Diverse, but Veterinarians Are Overwhelmingly White. Black Veterinarians Want to Change That Time article by Melissa Chan, Oct 31, 2020 Submitted by Leila Knetsch Students should be thinking of future careers with good job prospects. ...
Time magazine article – systemic racism in health care
He Was Shot by a Stranger but Treated Like a Criminal When He Reached the ER (Article by Melissa Chan, Oct 13, 2021) Time article submitted by Leila Knetsch Many of our science students are interested in having a career in the health care field. It is vital for...
Physics and STEM for Everyone Research Project – University of Guelph
A team of researchers from the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo are hoping to increase girls' enrollment in high school physics through a new initiative. They are looking for physics teachers who are interested in leading an activity and providing...
We must keep sharing good news about those working to combat climate change.
This Globe and Mail opinion piece provides an interesting overview of a book recently published by of Dr. Kathryn Hayhoe, a Canadian who teaches at Texas Tech University. Dr. Hayhoe is a well-respected climate scientist. Link to article
Join members of the Geoscience Education community for a unique professional learning opportunity. The Educators Professional Learning Workshop and Virtual Field Trip is an instructional development program like no other! Planned in conjunction with the Geological...