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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Teacher Demo/Student Activity: There's Iron in your Cereal?
Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Teacher Demonstration
This demo shows how flakes of iron can be extracted from iron-fortified cereals with the use of a strong magnet. The demo shows a physical separation process and provides students with a good example... read more
WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE- AND BEES AND BUTTERFLIES
Categories: General Interest
This activity begins with deep discussions on biodiversity and/or environmental factors. Students then continue exploring through readings from a variety of sources. The questions are then discussed... read more
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE FAIRYTALE (STRUCTURES & MECHANISMS)
Categories: Lab/Student Activity
We are learning to compare natural and human forces on structures of different materials for a sophisticated understanding of the concept of force acting internally and externally on structures... read more