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Categories: 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 moreCategories: Lesson Plan
In our contemporary Western society, we use a solar calendar system for recording days, months, and years. Many cultures across the world use Lunar calendars from China to the Middle East, to even right here in North America. Many Indigenous Nations across North and... read moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: General Interest
The National Inventors Hall of Fame™ (Canada) (NIHF Canada) and The Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario/ L’Association des professeurs de science de l’Ontario (STAO/APSO) presented this unique bilingual professional development opportunity on the topic of... read moreCategories: 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 moreCategories: General Interest
This webinar discussed how tech tools can make teaching easier and better without having to spend all of our time learning how to use them. The group shared the best of the best for team-building, teaching, and assessment. Tech tools such as Peardeck, EduFlow,... read moreCategories: General Interest
The session worked to build a collaborative working group of chemistry teachers by presenting ideas and solutions to teaching chemistry in our present environment. It looked at equipment, software, labs, theoretical work, culminating tasks, planning, quadmester... read more