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Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
By exploring various substances and their effects on ice, through a structured inquiry approach, students will begin to understand matter and energy, and more specifically that liquid and solids have specific properties and interact in different ways. To access this... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students will learn how matter can go through a physical change by changing from one state to another. They will learn this change is reversible and involves the release or absorption of heat. Students will also be able to identify the correct scientific names of... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this activity, students will identify biotic and abiotic elements they find in various ecosystems. They will also investigate how organisms and elements interact with each other and use an Indigenous lens to investigate, evaluate, and ask questions. Finally,... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this learning activity students investigate the impacts of human actions on the quality of air and water and the ways in which the quality of air and water has an impact on living things, as well as the idea that living things need air and water to survive. To do... read moreCategories: General Interest
As researchers move to study large-scale trends in nature (e.g. observing migration patterns, monitoring invasive species, surveying climate change), the amount of data required is often beyond the capabilities of a single research team (Bonney et al., 2009). One way... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will learn to distinguish characteristics of animals within the Animal Kingdom, how to classify chordates into different Classes of Animalia, how to use and apply a dichotomous key properly, and specific vocabulary relating to animal... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
This article discusses the challenge of planning inquiry-oriented science units while simultaneously integrating with principles of differentiated teaching. Ideas for culminating performance tasks, learning stations/activity centres, experiments, and connections for... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
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 all subject disciplines and grades, this method is structured to stimulate divergent,... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
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 area of taxonomy and classification is very information dense and can often lose some... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
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 address curriculum expectations related to circuit analysis, in particular,... read more