by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
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...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
In this activity, students learn about engineering design by constructing elastic powered cars from everyday materials that can travel in a straight line for a distance of at least 3 meters within a 1 meter wide track. They test their elastic powered racers, evaluate...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
We started by doing a See/Think/Wonder around the empty incubator and then followed that up by doing another one once the eggs had been added to it. There was lots of discussion around the role of the temperature played. Some of the children made connections to the...
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
This guided inquiry activity is structured to allow students to practise observations and collaborating to find the cause of Minamata Disease in Japan, and then exploring how it has affected a Canadian Indigenous population.
by STAO ADMIN | Dec 12, 2019
This lesson harnesses an untapped resource, student curiosity and the questions that they develop about the scientific world they live in. To foster curiosity and question asking, I have created an implementation method surrounding a curriculum unit that brings small...
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