STAO has thousands of resources available for Ontario teachers. Members should login to see the full suite of available resources.
Use the search filters to sort by resource or media type, grade level, or strands or other topics. You can also search using the search box on the left of your screen, or simply by scrolling through the available resources.
Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this lab, students will test two different soil samples, one from a natural environment and the other from a location impacted by humans, for their water-holding capacity, organic matter content, pH level, and nutrient content (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium).... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
In this activity, students will watch a video. This will be followed by a teacher-ed discussion on the genetic control of spine development in stickleback fish. Based on the discussion, students consider which alleles for spine development are likely dominant.... read moreCategories: General Interest
Using online tools to enhance and enliven learning of senior chemistry concepts (Secondary, Science): This resource is about the use of such online assessment tools as Kahoot!, Testmoz, PearDeck, Quizziz and Google quizzes. The advantages of using these technological... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
In this resource, you will be learning how to utilize Google Suite tools: Google Slides to create a digital science journal for Primary students and Google Classroom for submissions of student work. Google Classroom is a blended learning platform for schools to... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
For Part 3 of my science AQ, I created (with a partner) a set of take home projects for grades 1-6 for each strand in the science curriculum. These are meant for students to do with their families. Here is the grade 1 set. I will load the other ones to the catalyst... read moreCategories: General Interest
This slide deck demonstrates the MakerSpace journey at J.H.Putman P.S., a middle school in Ottawa. The MakerSpace club is an inspiration to teachers. Myself, I wanted to include the mindset in my grade 7 class, especially for the structures unit. Part of this is also... read moreCategories: General Interest
I chose to look at spiralling the Academic Grade 10 curriculum from a slightly different perspective. Instead of weekly chunks of each unit, I looked at how the specific curriculum expectations were grouped and compared that to the time I had allocated for each unit... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Use a discrepant event to get students to think critically and use their inquiry skills to develop a step by step procudure and analysis to explain it. Communication, collaboration and cooperation between students creates a positive learning environment. read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
I have done this glider project with my students over a span of a few years and have found that my approach has changed from year to year. This year, students were encouraged to think divergently in the way in which they presented their final glider product and... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Students work in small groups to design, build, and test a speedboat powered by a hand-made propeller that pushes air. The boats are raced in a 20-foot length of eavestrough filled with water. A set of guided-inquiry worksheets has the students apply key physics... read more