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Categories: General Interest
This resource is written for elementary school teachers and administrators to provide guidance for the safe delivery of hands-on science and technology programs to students. The resource was originally writted to align closely with the elementary science and... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This resource has been developed by the Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario/L’Association des professeur de sciences de l’Ontario with funding and technical support from Ontario Teacher’s Federation/Fédération des enseignmentes et des... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Rocks and minerals are of great importance in the history of our Earth, although it unfortunately remains a concept that lacks lustre and enthusiasm for elementary students. Most students are able to comprehend the differences between rocks and minerals and how... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Written by Michelle Chin, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2024, OISE/UT In this 6 day lesson plan, students explore the properties of rocks and minerals. On Day 1, students reflect on the impact of rocks and minerals on their own lives and investigate the properties of... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
In this lesson and mini lab, students will learning how echolocation is used by animals like bats and dolphins, the purpose of echolocation, the principles behind echolocation in a variety of technology like ultrasound devices, SONAR (depth finders), or in devices for... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
In this combined Grade 4/ 5 lesson, students will observe and understand how light is refracted through a medium of mass, such as water. Grade 4 students will leave the lesson with the knowledge and understanding as to why light refracts at various angles depending on... read moreCategories: Teacher Demonstration
This demo demonstrates the greenhouse effect by comparing the air temperature of a room with the air temperature inside a clear plastic bag containing black construction paper. The bag models the Earth’s atmosphere and the black construction paper models... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Teacher Demonstration
This demonstration will amaze and astound! As you pour vegetable oil into a small Pyrex beaker placed inside a larger Pyrex beaker, the smaller beaker will magically disappear! It could be a teacher demo or a student activity. To access this content, you must purchase... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This short student activity enables students to experience creating their own microscope slide and to practice using a microscope. The activity reinforces the necessity of finding and focussing on a sample under the microscope first under low power before increasing... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Teacher Demonstration
Xylem and phloem tissues make up the “circulatory” system of a plant. The xylem tissues transport water from the roots to all of the other living tissues, while the phloem tissues transport sugars from the green tissues where photosynthesis occurs to... read more