This year-long French Immersion project incorporates all of the grade 8 science units and allows students to make connections across the curriculum. Throughout the year, students focused on water consumption, coding, fluids, water quality, creating marble mazes with grade 3 Science Buddies, and creating Rube Goldberg machines with grade 9 and 10 students in preparation for entering high school.
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WIND POWER AND THE GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
Learning Goal: To make a simple motor and wind turbine that will produce an electric current when exposed to wind. read more
BLOGGING ECOSYSTEMS
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
Students watch a documentary about ecosystems. They then blog about the subject and investigate one problematic and post their results on a blog. Other... read more
Spice Up Assessment With Plickers
Categories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity
After learning an entire unit, many students find it a daunting task to work through assigned review questions to prepare for final evaluations. One of the many strategies that we use in teaching to... read more