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Categories: 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 moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
During this inquiry-based unit, students will learn that the pure substances and mixtures that we use, both as individuals and as industries, have discoverable properties that are explained using the Particle Theory. There are methods we use to mix and separate them.... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Les étudiants (et les enseignants) apprendront à naviguer dans Tinkercad afin de créer des circuits en série, parallèles et complexes. Si l’école a accès à Arduinos, elle peut construire les circuits sur la planche à pain. Other Resources:... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
I have been working on involving more open ended questioning in my classes – how can I better incorportate the ideas of inquiry and sustained inquiry in my teaching? The following is the re-working of a lab on the isomers of Butanol. By making this lab into more... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Students were given a research question in context: If they were stranded on an unknown beach, would it be more efficient to send a sound message through water, ground, or air? We first defined criteria for an “efficient” message. Students then came up... read more