by STAO ADMIN | May 14, 2020
This resource includes a reflection on differentiated science instruction in the full-day kindergarten classroom and an accompanying lesson plan to help students develop an understanding of what it means to be a steward of the Earth by caring for it and being...
by STAO ADMIN | May 14, 2020
One of Sauvé’s (2005) practical and theoretical currents in environmental education called the ‘Naturalist Current’, which focuses on the “intrinsic value of nature,” (p. 13) spoke to me as a science and environmental educator. Since I minored in philosophy and took...
by STAO ADMIN | May 14, 2020
The focus of this lesson plan is to allow the students to discover the effects of the centripetal force through an inquiry based activity. The students will experiment with different factors that affect centripetal motion and partially derive a formula for centripetal...
by STAO ADMIN | May 14, 2020
In this activity, grade 6 students will explore physical adaptations/ adaptive traits by looking at bird beaks. Students will be tasked to determine how and why bird beaks are shaped based on the food birds will eat. Using a variety of tools to represent each beak,...
by STAO ADMIN | May 14, 2020
Author: Andrea Waine, Don Galbraith Award winner, Nippissing University Throughout the Understanding Earth and Space Systems unit in grade 1, students begin investigating daily and seasonal changes. The big ideas covered in this unit are that changes occur in daily...
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