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Integers
This resource bundle will explore the concept of integers and comparing integers using symbols and number lines through investigations, constructive pedagogy, games, and critical thinking activities. Students will work in small groups, partners as well as individually and build on their prior knowledge to extend their understanding of integers.
- Grade 7
Measure of Central Tendency
Using a variety of game-based learning methods, students will explore both the calculation and applied uses of mean, median, mode, and range of data sets.
- Grade 7
Volume - Right Cylinders And Prisms
How do I solve problems involving the volume of a right prism or a right cylinder?
- Grade 8
Think Outside the Box
This learning bundle will explore the concept of surface area and how to calculate the surface area of right rectangular prisms and draw nets for these types of prisms. Students will use their knowledge of rectangular prisms, surface area, and nets to complete a project to build a box for an object of their choice.
- Grade 8
Input - Output Machines
Students will engage in a three-part lesson through guided inquiry, which encourages them to explore number patterns and be able to describe them in graphs, words, and table of values.
- Grade 6
Factors, Multiples, Prime and Composite Numbers
This learning bundle will explore factors, multiples, and prime and composite numbers through investigations, constructivist pedagogy, games, and critical thinking tasks. Students will collaborate to create definitions of factors, multiples, prime and composite and will use their new knowledge to solve interesting problems.
- Grade 6
Demonstrating Equality
Students will engage in a three-part lesson through guided inquiry, which encourages them to explore the meaning of equality through concrete, pictorial and symbolic representations.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Conduct a Survey
Students think critically about survey biases and construct their own survey questions and responses through cooperative learning techniques. After they evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of surveys and censuses through an experiential activity, pupils learn to best display data in an inquiry-based lesson.
- Grade 6
Circles
What is a circle? What are the properties of a circle? How do I use the properties of a circle to solve problems?
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
The Adolescent Brain 2 of 2
This package examines the human brain and how it impacts and influences and allows all our behaviour. The brain lets us feel our emotions and is responsible for all our thinking.
Students will investigate the biology of their brain. They will explore how to use this new knowledge to help them guide their behaviours and to understand their emotions and feelings. Students will set some personal goals that are impacted by their brain.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
The Adolescent Brain 1 of 2
This package examines the human brain and how it impacts and influences and allows all our behavior. The brain lets us feel our emotions and is responsible for all our thinking.
Students will investigate the biology of their brain. They will explore how to use this new knowledge to help them guide their behaviors and to understand their emotions and feelings. Students will set some personal goals that are impacted by their brain.
- Grade 6
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
Thinking about the Future
The goal of this unit is for students to continue thinking about job skills that will ready them for future employment. Students will be asked to define future job roles, identify, and explore their interests, hobbies, and skills. The difference between hard and soft skills will be introduced, while imagining their futures 10-15 years from now. Students will also reflect on the relationship between student engagement and future success.
- Grade 7