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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
Watersheds
This resource bundle serves as an introduction to the impact humans have on our watersheds. Students will engage with vocabulary, participate in an inquiry-based experiment, and research their local watershed in relation to the national watersheds.
- Grade 9
- Grade 10
- Grade 11
- Grade 12
Science Literacy: Data
This bundle explores the concepts of data collection. The purpose of the first lesson is to have students explore the concepts of observations verses inferences. The second lesson in this bundle continues with the concept of observations by having students discover the method of scientific inquiry and the differences between independent and dependent variables. The third lesson has students perform an experiment that brings together previous concepts.
- Grade 9
Newton’s Third Law of Motion
Students will examine real-world examples of Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion and action-reaction pairs.
- Grade 8
Newton’s First Law of Motion
The goal is to provide students with some real-life and experiential examples of Newton’s First Law of Motion (i.e. Law of Inertia).
- Grade 8
Extreme Weather
What causes extreme weather events such as golf-ball sized hail?
- Grade 7
Climate Change
This grade 7 science resource package on climate change explores multiple aspects of the issue through a collaborative approach. Ideas such as what is climate change, the causes and effects of climate change, the impacts of irresponsible production and consumption, and individual level solutions to mitigate climate change are explored in a discussion-based format. There are multiple videos and worksheets to assist in guiding discussions, as well as time estimates on how long each discussion and activity should take. Throughout these lessons, students will explore the issue of climate change by applying their prior knowledge and revising what they know as the lessons progress. They will look at the issue from their own point of view, as well as the views of others.
- Grade 7
The Acadians
This bundle examines the experience of French Acadians through discrimination in the Atlantic Provinces in the late 1600’s and 1700’s. Learners will look at the treatment of a minority group in Atlantic Canada. Acadians are a major part of history that is often overlooked, and it is because of them that the province of New Brunswick is officially bilingual.
- Grade 6
Where is NB in Atlantic Canada?
Where is New Brunswick located in the Atlantic region, Canada, North America, and the world? Within New Brunswick where are the Wolastoqey, Mi’kmaq, and Peskotomuhkati communities?
- Grade 3