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Written by Caleb Wesley, Don Galbraith Award Winner 2019-20, York University In our contemporary Western society, we use a solar calendar system for recording days, months, and years. Many cultures across the world use Lunar calendars from China to the Middle East, to... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Written by Greg Hanta, Don Galbraith Award Winner 2019-20, Brock University The accompanying curriculum and teaching ideas are for use in a grade 11 university physics class. These activities can be used during the electricity and magnetism strand. These activities... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Written by Dave Shillingford, Don Galbraith Award Winner 2019-20, Nipissing University While the unit diversity of living things in the grade 11 curriculum can be a very interesting topic full of debate and conversation, there are portions that can be rather dry. The... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
Written by Alexandra Arcese, Don Galbraith Award Winner 2019-20, Western University This article explores how to promote critical thinking in the classroom using the Question Formulation Technique (QFT) to foster self-advocacy skills. As an applicable technique for... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
Written by Liliana Alexandra Theodorescu, Don Galbraith Award Winner 2019-20, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education This article discusses the challenge of planning inquiry-oriented science units while simultaneously integrating with principles of differentiated... read moreCategories: General Interest
The National Inventors Hall of Fame™ (Canada) (NIHF Canada) and The Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario/ L’Association des professeurs de science de l’Ontario (STAO/APSO) presented this unique bilingual professional development opportunity on the topic of... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
In this webinar, teachers received a hands-on introduction to coding through the Scratch platform in addition to a fun space-related lesson! Learn how to bring the solar system to life in your class. Miranda Carlson-Strain is the Diversity, Inclusion & Community... read moreCategories: General Interest
This webinar discussed how tech tools can make teaching easier and better without having to spend all of our time learning how to use them. The group shared the best of the best for team-building, teaching, and assessment. Tech tools such as Peardeck, EduFlow,... read moreCategories: General Interest
The session worked to build a collaborative working group of chemistry teachers by presenting ideas and solutions to teaching chemistry in our present environment. It looked at equipment, software, labs, theoretical work, culminating tasks, planning, quadmester... read moreCategories: General Interest
This webinar is about creating fully contained lessons or units in a single document to minimize the number of clicks students need to make to access the information. We will discuss how teacher demonstrations (live or video recording) allow students to focus on the... read more