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Lab/Student Activity, Unit Plan
The purpose of this project is to promote innovation, sustainable water use, and the recycling of materials via the creation of vertical gardens. Four RDSB schools collaborated using Google Hangouts which allowed students to share their experiences, results and future... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Unit Plan
The purpose of this project is to promote innovation, sustainable water use, and the recycling of materials via the creation of vertical gardens. Four RDSB schools collaborated using Google Hangouts which allowed students to share their experiences, results and future... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
The inquiry began by the grade 5 students’ wonderings about two students in the community class after an assembly. They noticed that the students were communicating via Proloquo2go. This is a computer picture communication exchange system software that allowed the... read more
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Lab/Student Activity
Students developed an understanding of how the different human organ systems function and work together, using an inquiry approach. Students formed groups based on their interest in a particular organ systems and discussed what they already knew and came up with... read more
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General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
There are now many ways to create blogs for students. Some schools are using EDSBY where groups can be made and internally a blog can be formed within the school. Public and free programs such as wordpress can be used, or if you or your board can put some money into... read more
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Lab/Student Activity
We started by doing a See/Think/Wonder around the empty incubator and then followed that up by doing another one once the eggs had been added to it. There was lots of discussion around the role of the temperature played. Some of the children made connections to the... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Can understanding particle theory and heat transfer modes help you build efficient devices to improve our daily lives? Heat is a form of energy that can be transformed and transferred. These processes can be explained using particle theory of matter. Design (or... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this activity, students learn about engineering design by constructing elastic powered cars from everyday materials that can travel in a straight line for a distance of at least 3 meters within a 1 meter wide track. They test their elastic powered racers, evaluate... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
In this unit plan, students learn to name the six different kinds of simple machines and how they make work easier and more enjoyable for people. They will also learn to design, build and test an arcade game or invention that includes more than one simple machine. A... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students develop a number of misconceptions about the process of meiosis. This is due to student confusion with similar words and phases in mitosis and the tendency of students to rely on memorizing the processes of cell division. As students try to conceptualize the... read more