by cbrookallred | Mar 12, 2015 | Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech
Contributed by Les Asselstine. Help your students become more aware and knowledgeable about the natural environment in their community. This can be done by examining natural communities near fences, under logs, and in cracks of the pavement. One particularly good...
by cbrookallred | Mar 9, 2015 | Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech
Contributed by Les Asselstine. Our students can and should take responsibility for litter on the schoolyard and in the neighbourhood. Here are some possible activities. Regularly collect litter from the schoolyard. Sort litter and classify it according to the rate at...
by msander | Mar 2, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech
By Lisa Ng. Overview As the need arises for educators to teach beyond the surface of the iceberg, a new era of documentation between the teacher and students have emerged – the Interactive Science notebook. Interactive notebooks are about more than gluing...
by msander | Mar 2, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
If you traced your family tree back 185 million generations, you wouldn’t be looking at a human, a primate, or even a mammal. You’d be looking at a fish. So where along that line does the first human show up? The answer may surprise you. Inspired by...
by msander | Feb 28, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
In the following video, the Globe and Mail’s Hannah Sung explains how higher vaccination rates protect communities from catching diseases like measles. Click this link to launch the video:...
by cbrookallred | Feb 26, 2015 | All Science Teachers, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech
Purpose To discover the Doppler Shift. Materials • glass of water • 8 ½” x 11” black construction paper • flashlight Procedure Place the flashlight on one side of the glass of water and place the black construction paper on the opposite side. Have students make a...
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