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Categories: General Interest
This Expert Element on Inquiry is designed to support teachers in making the shift to teaching science through inquiry. Use this information to help direct your own learning and to enhance student learning through inquiry. read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students choose a topic of interest that relates science they are studying to innovative or practical applications, recently published research, or potential future applications. They then prepare a multimedia presentation to present to the class of 3 to 5 minute... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This activity was developed for the Earth and Space Science strand (Earth’s Dynamic Climate) of the grade 10 Science, Applied course. It was designed to identify the principal components of Earth’s climate system (sun, oceans, atmosphere and topography of... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This is a cross-curricular project between Science and Geography that allows students the opportunity to explore, research, and ‘experience’ sustainability with a focus on water in their local and global community. It is suggested that this project be... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Teacher Demonstration
Some examples of simple but effective activities to help students understand better concepts identified as being challenging. Here are examples that might help you with Sig Digs, Kinematics, and Vectors. All activities are involve kinaesthetic experiences, to bring... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Physical changes that involve liquids and aqueous solutions can be studied using a polystyrene calorimeter like the one shown in Figure 1. Such materials can be applied to practical thermochemical systems. For example, when athletes are injured, they may immediately... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
In this series of tasks, students will complete the following: – In groups, brainstorm a list of various ‘clues’ in nature that scientists study to gather evidence for climate change and choose one to be a topic for research. – Individually... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
The objective for this project was to help students understand that classroom learning has to be linked to real-life problems in order to become meaningful. Students are learning the basic concepts related to science, technology, environment, and work collaboratively... read moreCategories: General Interest
My journey in creating and developing a STEAM classroom started in 2012. The video posted was filmed at STAO2012. The demonstration was a simple task where we build a grape masher and have STAO participants try out the device, ask questions, and develop an activity... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Teacher Demonstration
In this inquiry, students are shown how to do a simple titration with basic apparatus, using a dropper instead of a burette. This enables students to do several quick titrations using different antacids in a timely way. The teacher shows the students generally what to... read more