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Exploring Careers in STEM Grade 8

Lessons

Students will expand their knowledge of STEM career types related to a topic they are studying in science.

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Coyotes: Coming to a town near you?

STEM Explained

Learn why coyotes are spreading in Canada and how this affects their relations with humans.

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Team Tower Challenge

Lessons

Students will explore what it means to be a member of a team and highlight the skills and qualities that make one a good team member.

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Bee Helpers

Lessons

Students will learn about the importance of bees and the human impacts on bee populations.

Frothing water

Earth Month: Water

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Discover the issues surrounding water today, and learn what you can do to help.

Tomato plants grow in a greenhouse

Bias and Sources of Error

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Learn how scientists identify and minimize bias and sources of error to produce accurate results.

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Identifying Variables

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Learn how scientists define independent, dependent and controlled variables in experimental inquiry.

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Math & Mandalas

Lessons

In this lesson, students explore the connection between arts, math and mindfulness as they create mandalas.

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Annotated Text Scrolls

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students comprehend large blocks of text by looking at and annotating the text in a continuous scroll format.

Woman with Canadian flag near the ocean

Monitoring the Ocean with Radar

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Learn about how a special type of radar helps monitor and protect Canada’s oceans.

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Planning for Equity in Public Transit

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Learn about how we can use spatial analysis to plan for more equitable public transit.

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Say Something

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students participate actively in group discussions.

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AB Each Teach

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students identify key ideas from a text, video, or other content and share these with a partner.

Student makes notes in a book he is reading

Marking Text

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students make sense of the text they are interacting with.

Tomatoes of different shapes, sizes and colours

Tomato Taxonomy

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A look at the taxonomic classification of the tomato plant and the origin, history and development of tomatoes.