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Categories: Lab/Student Activity
This guided inquiry project was designed to provide students with the challenge of creating a fully-electric car. The students were provided with a motor, photographs of sample electric cars, an outline of the criteria their car was to meet, and a rubric as a marking... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
The learning goal for this activity is to design and create a DIY structure (frame, shell, solid or combo) that serves more than one purpose, incorporates a cantilever, and to investigate the relationship between the design and function of these structures and the... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This is a series of safety activities incorporating the new WHMIS symbols. There is a matching activity, a stations activity and a quiz. It is targeted to grades 9 and 10 but could be used at any grade 7-12. read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This resource shows the reader how to use the Clips App in a way that allows students to create a digital story about a cell. There are excellent examples of how the final product is supposed to look at as well as a rubric (for, as and of learning) that is ready to... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lesson Plan
This resource is an introduction to how to guide students in extracting information from articles posted on Google classroom. They then create basic to higher level thinking questions (which they also answer). There are lots of helpful templates and how to materials... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lesson Plan
Paper “clickers” are a simple and cost effective way to boost students’ conceptual understanding and improve their metacognitive skills. All you need is a computer, data projector and paper multiple choice answer cards (clickers) for each student, and you can get... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students will design, perform, and document their own experiment examining the effect(s) of a plant growth regulator (PGR). All students are expected to have a basic understanding of a variety of PGRs based on an introductory worksheet. Students are then divided into... read moreCategories: General Interest
This resource focuses on the differentiated assessment strategy where students create Show What you Know’s (SWUN’s). Students have the opportunity to build a portfolio of work, (a series of assessment for and assessment as learning activities), that can... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Wix is a technology tool that allows students to design creative, engaging, and interactive websites using class content. This tool provides teachers and students with many simple tutorials that highlight its features. Some prior knowledge of website design is useful,... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
This activity can be used as a culminating activity, as it will bring aspects of all of the major strands of the grade 9 science curriculum together. Students are to design and build a space station to support a human colony on another planet or moon. Along with... read more