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Students developed an understanding of how the different human organ systems function and work together, using an inquiry approach. Students formed groups based on their interest in a particular organ systems and discussed what they already knew and came up with... read more
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General Interest, Lesson Plan
This resource discusses how to combine grade 7, Interactions in the Environment with grade 8, Water Systems. The big idea for the inquiry was that human activities have the potential to alter the environment. The goal of the project was to have students investigate... read more
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General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
There are now many ways to create blogs for students. Some schools are using EDSBY where groups can be made and internally a blog can be formed within the school. Public and free programs such as wordpress can be used, or if you or your board can put some money into... read more
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Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
Students will be using their prior learned knowledge of electricity and electrical circuits to design and build a “fun moving” electrical circuit that can be powered by a single “D” or “C” cell battery. The project will guide them to create an inquiry around the... read more
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Unit Plan
After learning about the basic fundamentals of electricity, students will begin to explore how they interact with technology that is around them and how they might become producers rather than continuing to be consumers. Subtopics would be: Physical Computing,... read more
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General Interest, Lesson Plan
This lesson harnesses an untapped resource, student curiosity and the questions that they develop about the scientific world they live in. To foster curiosity and question asking, I have created an implementation method surrounding a curriculum unit that brings small... read more
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Lesson Plan
This guided inquiry activity is structured to allow students to practise observations and collaborating to find the cause of Minamata Disease in Japan, and then exploring how it has affected a Canadian Indigenous population. read more
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Lab/Student Activity
We started by doing a See/Think/Wonder around the empty incubator and then followed that up by doing another one once the eggs had been added to it. There was lots of discussion around the role of the temperature played. Some of the children made connections to the... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Can understanding particle theory and heat transfer modes help you build efficient devices to improve our daily lives? Heat is a form of energy that can be transformed and transferred. These processes can be explained using particle theory of matter. Design (or... read more
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Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this activity, students learn about engineering design by constructing elastic powered cars from everyday materials that can travel in a straight line for a distance of at least 3 meters within a 1 meter wide track. They test their elastic powered racers, evaluate... read more