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Categories: Lab/Student Activity
For Part 3 of my science AQ, I created (with a partner) a set of take home projects for grades 1-6 for each strand in the science curriculum. These are meant for students to do with their families. Here is the grade 1 set. I will load the other ones to the catalyst... read moreCategories: General Interest
This slide deck demonstrates the MakerSpace journey at J.H.Putman P.S., a middle school in Ottawa. The MakerSpace club is an inspiration to teachers. Myself, I wanted to include the mindset in my grade 7 class, especially for the structures unit. Part of this is also... read moreCategories: General Interest
I chose to look at spiralling the Academic Grade 10 curriculum from a slightly different perspective. Instead of weekly chunks of each unit, I looked at how the specific curriculum expectations were grouped and compared that to the time I had allocated for each unit... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Use a discrepant event to get students to think critically and use their inquiry skills to develop a step by step procudure and analysis to explain it. Communication, collaboration and cooperation between students creates a positive learning environment. read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
I have done this glider project with my students over a span of a few years and have found that my approach has changed from year to year. This year, students were encouraged to think divergently in the way in which they presented their final glider product and... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Students work in small groups to design, build, and test a speedboat powered by a hand-made propeller that pushes air. The boats are raced in a 20-foot length of eavestrough filled with water. A set of guided-inquiry worksheets has the students apply key physics... read moreCategories: 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 more