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Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Rocks and minerals are of great importance in the history of our Earth, although it unfortunately remains a concept that lacks lustre and enthusiasm for elementary students. Most students are able to comprehend the differences between rocks and minerals and how... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Students explore the meaning of families by discussing their own families, creating a family portrait, using texts, outdoor experiences, and guest speakers, and then connecting their ideas to the natural world through animal families. They will concretely explore an... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]This integrated set of activities strives to incorporate learning out of doors, environmental... read moreCategories: General Interest
Assessment for, as, and of learning can all be done while learning outside. The primary purpose of assessment and evaluation is to improve student learning (Ontario Science and Technology Curriculum grades 1-8, 2007, p. 21). Since inquiry-based and experiential-based... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students will participate in the following design challenge: With the increase in extreme weather, design a bridge with a specific purpose and adaptations to withstand the weather conditions of the... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This project engages students in the different stages of the technological problem solving process in the Kindergarten Program document with the story “Zoom!” by Robert Munsch. Students have an opportunity to analyze school play structures in their school community... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This project engages students in the inquiry process about butterflies in their school community. They have opportunities to explore the differences in appearance between different insects such as butterflies and moths through class conversations, drawings, picture... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This project uses the story “Stuck” by Oliver Jeffers to engage students in the different stages of the technological problem solving process in the Kindergarten Program document. Students will have opportunities to create structures that boy in the story can use to... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This project uses the story “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” to engage students in different stages of the technological problem solving process in the Kindergarten Program document. Students can design structures that Goldilocks can build to replace items that she... read more