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Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning as they explore and determine different properties of artificial vs. natural light. The learners will have the opportunity to collaborate together as they investigate. To access this content, you must purchase School... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Everyday boats and ships around the world navigate through narrow channels on their journey to deliver cargo and freight or to take people to different locations. The Panama Canal is an example of one such narrow waterway. Boats must enter these narrow passages with... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This activity is intended as an introductory exploration of simple machines. The teacher will engage students by reading Stuck by Oliver Jeffers. Students will be asked to consider what specific problem the protagonist of the story is facing. As a class, students will... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Although the university preparatory SBI4U biology course is varied and comprehensive in nature, an overarching theme of glucose can be seen in each of the 5 strands of the curriculum. This resource suggests a strategy for spiralling this concept throughout the SBI4U... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Pre-activity description: To introduce students to the concept of heat transfer we will test how quickly temperature of hot water cools off using different cups. By doing this, students can see how heat transfers from the liquid to the cup and to the air. Main... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Author: Muna Muasher-Marji, Don Galbraith Award winner, University of Ontario Institute of Technology This activity requires students to use the Makey Makey kit (Makey Makey 2018), Play Doh, and a computer with internet access to design a simple closed DC circuit by... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Author: Taylor McCabe, Don Galbraith Award winner, University of Ottawa The goal of this activity is for students to engage in course material by working in small groups to come up with questions that might appear on a test and practice answering questions created by... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Friction is the name of the game! This package is an inquiry based activity that can be used for students to do either independently, in pairs, or even as an entire class. It addresses the grade 3 science curriculum, specifically the strand Understanding Matter and... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This resource includes a reflection on differentiated science instruction in the full-day kindergarten classroom and an accompanying lesson plan to help students develop an understanding of what it means to be a steward of the Earth by caring for it and being... read moreCategories: General Interest
One of Sauvé’s (2005) practical and theoretical currents in environmental education called the ‘Naturalist Current’, which focuses on the “intrinsic value of nature,” (p. 13) spoke to me as a science and environmental educator. Since I minored in philosophy and took... read more