Science and Technology Lesson Plans
Outreach Science Ontario - Science Lessons for Ontario Teachers
BrainPOP Animated movies on Health, Science and Technology - This is not a lesson plan site but I have listed it here because the pages have product advertising (as well as topics on family life/sex ed.) and so I will not list it on the student pages. You should review the site and then decide if you want your students to use it.
Investigation Wind Energy Hands-on lesson plans from The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Blueberry Farm is a computer program that models a simple ecosystem. It was designed to be used as part of a sequence of science lessons aiming to help students understand more about the use of chemical agents in farming and how these can affect ecosystems. The paper resources are in Microsoft Word .doc form. The video clips show teachers using Blueberry Farm in lessons. Please note that video files are large, so you will need broadband or quite a lot of patience to view them.
Everyday Uses of Minerals (for Gr. 4 - Rocks, Minerals, and Erosion) - from the Mineral Information Institute - Lesson plans and activities in Adobe Acrobat format.
Structures - Around the World - Activities for the Elementary Classroom - contains eight of the nearly three dozen activities found in the publication, "The Exploratorium's Guide to Scale and Structure" written by Barry Kluger-Bell and the School in the Exploratorium. All activities in this book have been tested in elementary school classrooms.
Evaporation Lab
- "The purpose of this software is to enable you to
experiment with the phenomena of evaporation. ... Watching evaporation happen in the real
world, however, can be a bit dull watching paint dry is literally an example of
evaporation at work. With a good computer several simulated hours can pass in less than a
minute, making it easier to experiment with evaporation."
World
Weather Watch - complete unit plan that integrates the use of computer technology.
Student project examples are included.
Sky
Watchers - Sky Watchers is an interactive educational program
from Environment Canada for elementary schools, designed specifically to support the
science curriculum. Students learn about the science of meteorology by taking weather observations during the
school year. This bilingual program is intended as a teaching aid suitable for Grades 4 to 7.
French
site
bj's Resources - Barbara Jackson, a teacher at Camilla Senior School is sharing her teaching resources for Grade 6 Science!
Flight - a complete teaching unit created by Queen's University. It is based on the Ontario curriculum and makes significant use of web sites, especially SchoolNet's Digital Collections. (If the first link doesn't work, try this one.)
Space Academy - an integrated internet unit for students written by K. McAsh.
Biodiversity
Performs! (For Grade 7 - Interactions Within Ecosystems) Play a charade-like game to learn about the services that
ecosystems provide. Cut out 7 'Biodiversity Performs' cards and then work in teams to
act out different ecosystems services, which make life on Earth possible.
This is an 8 page teaching guide in PDF format, with the intent to help students
understand that an ecosystem is a community of plants, animals and other organisms that
interact with each other and the physical environment and that are linked by energy and nutrient flows. Resources and suggested websites are
included.
Nelson
Science & Technology 7 -
Nelson
Science & Technology 8 - activities, hot links, and
information for students, teachers and parents, plus online support for all of
the Nelson Science resources
bj's Resources - Barbara Jackson, a teacher at Camilla Senior School is sharing her teaching resources for Grade 8 Science!