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Categories: Lab/Student Activity
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers is a story about a boy who gets his kite stuck in a tree. He throws other objects up into the tree to try and get his kite down. This book can be used to inspire the design process to help solve the problem of a student climbing up into a tree... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
The students will learn about the needs of plants by using a data collection tool (Makeblock Neurons). This tool will allow students to measure the temperature and humidity around a plant as well as its soil moisture level. This data will be graphed using a... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
Students use an app called Goosechase and do a photo and/or video scavenger hunt where they obtain short clips on a topic (in this case – about careers). They can later use this footage to make a video or presentation about a famous scientist and their chosen... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
In this Classroom Catalyst, you will be learning how to utilize Google Forms to create helpful assessment forms that can be used in any Junior, Intermediate and Senior Science classroom. Students will also be able to use these assessment forms to self-regulate their... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
Students will fill out a Google Form on the ecosystem data that they collect, which will then be exported into a Google Sheet and analyzed so that students can see trends in their class’s dataset without much effort on either the student or teacher’s part.... read moreCategories: General Interest
Futurists predict that those who work in jobs that require lower education and lower skill sets have a higher chance to have their jobs lost or restructured while those that require greater education or are highly skilled will be less affected. There is a growing... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
A minimum of 12 weeks is suggested for this inquiry. Time required will depend on students’ prior knowledge, skill set, level of interest and additional time to complete work. read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
Experiential education is the cornerstone of inquiry in this set of lessons about biodiversity. Learning about the outdoors, in the outdoors, is vastly important. All the beauty that surrounds the life around us in the outdoors at our schools will not only build... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
How many of our Physics textbook questions begin with “a hockey puck glides across a frictionless ice surface…” or “one skater pushes back on the other…”? The questions are obviously designed to help Canadian students connect with... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
The Wonder Wall fosters a community of wonder in an inquiry-based classroom. A prominent section of a classroom wall is devoted to the children’s questions. All questions are respected by being displayed on the wall. This helps children to feel safe as their... read more