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Living Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.

Portrait de Ryan Mitchell

Ryan Mitchell

Career Profiles

Hatchery Supervisor

My job is to supervise the daily workflow at our salmon hatchery.
Natasha Baker au travaille

Natasha Baker

Incubation, First Feed, and Fry Supervisor

Natasha Baker is an Incubation, First Feed, and Fry Supervisor for Northern Harvest Smolt Ltd. (Mowi Canada East).
Maturation of tomato fruit

The Life Cycle of a Tomato Plant

Backgrounders

Learn about the pollination, fertilization, germination and growth of tomato plants.

Seed-producing plants

Seed Dispersal

Lessons

Students develop and apply the skills of observing, comparing, contrasting, sorting and classifying, to investigate how seeds move from place to place.

Life cycle of strawberry plant

Plant Life Cycle

Lessons

Students develop and apply the skills of observing, comparing & contrasting, and communicating as they explore life cycles of familiar plants.

Dandelion seeds floating in the wind

Design & Build a Travelling Seed

Lessons

Students will work collaboratively to design and build models of seeds that can travel as far as possible.

Assortment of seeds

Design & Build a Seed Sorter

Lessons

Students will work collaboratively to design and build a device that is able to sort seeds by size.

Butterfly on a flower

Animal Life Cycles

Lessons

Students develop sorting & classifying and comparing & contrasting skills as they investigate the life cycles of animals.