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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 more
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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 more
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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 more
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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 more
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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 more
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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
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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 more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
What is this? This tool shows teachers how to use an arduino as a cheap safe 0-5V power supply for electricity experiments. How do I use this? Link to tech tool how to OR STAO connection to the tech tool Why use this? There are two problems using variable power... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
by ERIN KEYZERS The purpose of these lessons is to integrate robotics (micro-controllers such as Arduino boards) and computational thinking/coding within the Grade 9 Science curriculum. This provides all students with an opportunity to connect automation, coding and... read more
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General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
Inquiry activity that is directed towards the interests of the students. Students will pick a topic (link to facebook page with ideas included). They will present a multi media presentation to the class. Rubrics, checklists and evaluation pdfs included. Other... read more