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Teaching STEM
The skill of observing involves using all of the senses, as appropriate, to find out about the characteristics, properties and attributes of objects, places and events.
Teaching STEM
The skill of questioning allows students to pursue their ideas and explore the world around them.
Backgrounders
Carbon dioxide is an important part of the air on Earth and in space. What is carbon dioxide? How is it measured? How can it affect us mentally and physically?
Backgrounders
Humidity is an important part of life on Earth and life in space. This backgrounder explains what humidity is, how it is measured and how it affects us both mentally and physically.
Backgrounders
Humidity is an important part of life on Earth and life in space. This backgrounder explains what humidity is, how it is measured and how it affects us both mentally and physically.
Lessons
Students develop and apply comparing & contrasting, observing and drawing conclusions skills as they investigate living and non-living things.
Teaching STEM
Making Comparisons is a way of thinking about two or more objects, ideas and/or events to find out how they are the same and how they are different. Knowing this information allows students to sort, classify and organize objects, ideas and/or events, to connect prior knowledge about them to new knowledge, and to develop appropriate comparative vocabulary.
Teaching STEM
A Sequence Organizer is a graphic organizer that is used as a way of classifying/organizing information to represent causality and consequences, and to identify patterns.
Backgrounders
Learn how astronauts survive in the International Space Station.
Hands-on Activities
Do an experiment with celery to learn about the structures that help plants take up water.
Teaching STEM
The Question Creation Chart (also known as a Q-Chart or Q-Matrix) provides students with a framework for developing a range of personally meaningful questions, encompassing both close-ended factual questions and open-ended, divergent questions. (Adapted from Weiderhold, 1997).
Picture Collections
15 images of some shapes and colours of plant leaves such as shamrocks, purple beech tree leaves and Japanese Maple tree leaves.