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Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Written by Avery Robinson, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2024, Laurentian Unversity In this lesson, students are learning how to name and identify the function of essential components of circuits and the standardized symbols used in circuit diagrams. In addition,... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Written by Diane Gibbard, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2024, Brock University In this lesson, students will combine their knowledge of electric circuits (parallel and series) and coding to design and build an LED light show using a breadboard and Arduino... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Written by Cameron Knox, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2023, Brock University. Students will understand the biochemistry of food by experimenting with different ingredients and cooking methods. To access this content, you must purchase School Membership (Small),... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
This unit plan, Wild Rice Integration, introduces a multi-grade (1-3) cross-curricular approach to teaching students about Wild Rice-Manoomin – a cultural symbol and essential staple in a sacred way of life. Sustainability is an indigenous practice of not taking... read more
Categories: General Interest, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
This resource was created by a team of Kindergarten educators to help educators to develop the skills and attitudes for students in the Early Years to become problem solvers and innovators. The resource highlights two important processes in the frame of Problem... read moreCategories: General Interest
This document is an example of an administrative procedure for science departments for use by boards in Ontario. The purpose of this document is to help boards compare their current procedures and documentation, where they exist, and create one for those where they... read moreCategories: General Interest
Being aware of best practices in the use of chemicals is essential for maintaining safe and engaging science programs in secondary schools. This document was developed to alert teachers to the hazards posed by certain chemicals and provides guidance on their... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
Written by Jasmine Sollen, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2023, Brock University. This lesson plan is intended for Grade 7 Strand D, Structures and Mechanisms. The topic is centre of gravity and stability based on expectation D2.2 (describe ways in which the centre of... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
Written by Larissa Crawley, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2023, Nipissing University. This activity could be used on its own as a STEM challenge in any classroom, or could be used as a performance task within a unit. The complexity of the task can be made more... read more