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Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Working in a group students will design and build a Space Box. They will become experts on a method of space exploration or a phenomenon in space. Each group will be choosing a topic, researching it, and creating a display box with miniature models about the... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Students had previously learned how light behaves as it interacts with plane and curved mirrors using ray boxes and mirrors. I created a guided inquiry investigation regarding how light behaves as it passes through lenses. The students worked in groups and were given... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
This resource is built on the professional learning focus within the Peel District School Board for 2017-18 to create final assessments to assess all of the learning expectations of a course in an engaging manner, and with a 21st century learner focus. It focuses on... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
Students worked in assigned teams (heterogeneous groupings) to research and analyze the impacts of food production on ecosystems, to evaluate the sustainability of our food production and to suggest a direction for future food production both in terms of... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Teacher and students will go on several nature walks in order to conduct a detailed inquiry into snails, their habitat, basic needs, and benefits to humans and the environment. Research will be conducted outside and in the classroom, in order to set up a snail habitat... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
I wanted to allow students to follow a more real life type of inquiry in chemistry labs that would allow them to experiment, make mistakes, revise their approach and retest. I would hope that this would allow them to build a deeper understanding of the concepts being... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
My grade 1-2 class was out in our school’s courtyard putting out some bird seeds we had collected to set outside our classroom window. In our Science unit we had been working on expectations dealing with Living Things and in talking about showing care and... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
In this activity, students will be analyzing a soil sample taken from a mining site and testing if for its acidity and dissolved metal contaminants. They will design a filtration system to remove the Fe3+ ion and acid contaminants, as well as any solid debris, out of... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is separated based on the 4- level model of inquiry, as outlined in “Simplifying Inquiry Instruction” by Randy L. Bell, Lara Smetana, and Ian Binns (link in resources). This lesson plan will introduce students to inquiry at the same time... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
This resource highlights the advantages of using Edpuzzle to personalize any video to make it more accessible for your students. Teachers can add voice overs and add quizzes for students. Teachers can also monitor students’ work. Other... read more