by Alyssa Forson | Jan 2, 2020
In a grade 9 academic classroom setting I made a few assumptions based on prior experience – 1) students generally are well adept at information retrieval and have had some exposure to science through the grade 7/8 curriculum and 2) all students are curious by...
by Alyssa Forson | Dec 21, 2019
The purpose of this activity is to bridge the gap between grade 9 electricity and grade 11 physics. In grade 9 you focus on current, voltage and resitance. This activity focuses on bringing these concepts in the relm of grade 11 and how these concepts focus on...
by Alyssa Forson | Dec 18, 2019
As our pedagogy has developed, we’ve paid great attention to the importance of individual learning needs, developing individual education plans for exceptional students but also promoting the concept that teachers build a strong relationship with each of their...
by Alyssa Forson | Dec 14, 2019
I chose to look at spiralling the Academic Grade 10 curriculum from a slightly different perspective. Instead of weekly chunks of each unit, I looked at how the specific curriculum expectations were grouped and compared that to the time I had allocated for each unit...
by Alyssa Forson | Dec 14, 2019
In this activity, students will watch a video. This will be followed by a teacher-ed discussion on the genetic control of spine development in stickleback fish. Based on the discussion, students consider which alleles for spine development are likely dominant....
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