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How did completing this assignment enhance your ability as an instructional partner?

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How did completing this assignment enhance your ability as an instructional partner?

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Completing this assignment enhanced my ability as an instructional partner because it made me think about what resources were worth sharing and how I could make sure I have different types of resources. I had to think about how others might use this information and make sure it was user friendly so that anyone could access the information.

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The following resources are to support the science curriculum for 1st grade.

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Building Student Success - B.C. Curriculum

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Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environmentSample questions to support inquiry with students:How do local plants and animals depend on their environment?How do plants and animals use their features to respond to stimuli in their environments?How do plants a…

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Mystery Doug is a free weekly video series where students ask questions. The videos are short, approximately five minutes long. Mystery Doug inspires students to ask questions and investigate. Some videos provide activity extensions. Students are also encouraged to submit questions.

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Open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science.

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Mystery Science offers open-and-go lessons that inspire kids to love science. The hook, visuals, and activity have all been prepared for you. Less prep, more learning.

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Education.com also has resources for science projects that you could try with your class to include hands on learning.

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1st Grade Science Activities for Kids | Education.com

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These first grade activities are desigined to target the skills that are covered in science, math, reading, and writing in the first grade.

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Education.com has tons of science worksheets for students. This is a free website with pre made worksheets and all you have to do is find the content you are teaching and print off the worksheet.

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1st Grade Science Resources | Education.com

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Excited to learn more about first grade science? Use these learning resources perfect for first grade to start today!

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If you have access to Epic! books then you could use their science book collection on states of matter.

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Built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world's best publishers, Epic safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under.

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online access fun thousands children great kids ebooks books

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States of Matter - Grade 1 Book Collection on Epic

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Built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world's best publishers, Epic safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under. Get Started

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This resource has videos and lesson plans for teachers to follow along with. They provide the handouts, list of materials needs, connections to curriculum (Ontario based) and videos for your students to watch as well.

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Access to Ramsey Lake boardwalk is temporarily closed from Science North. Please access via Paris or Elizabeth Street.

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Classroom videos, student handouts, and offline lesson plans will be made available on the days listed below. You will be able to send these videos and handouts to your students to provide them with key concepts and activities that link to the curriculum. The offline lesson plans provide a detailed explanation of the concepts and the procedure.

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Science World is a great field trip opportunity for schools as well. They are offering online school programs for those who can't attend in person as well.

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Science World for Schools - Online Programs - Science World

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Students light up with excitement when they get to see science in action, and an experience with Science World is brimming with demos, discovery, and wonder. Our interactive programming is designed by educational experts and delivers light-bulb moments along with collaborative learning and lasting m…

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Science World for Schools – Online Programs

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This website provides teachers with lots of different STEM activities for teachers to use in their class. They come with full lesson plans with instruction slides that have speakers notes to help you along the way.

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Support your students​'​ problem-solving abilities and skill development

Dig deep into inquiry- and problem-based learning with your students using the STEM Education Toolkit and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). The outline below is intended for teachers delivering the Ontario Curriculum to students in Grades 6 to 8; however, the Toolkit can also be adapted for use with any grade level.

How to use this toolkit:

1. Identify a topic of interest or relevance based on the UN's SDGs in order to contextualize the Problem-based Design Project for students.

2. Prepare students for the Design Project by having them complete two or three Skill Challenges of your choice.

3. Support students as they complete the Design Project by helping them:

1. Connect to the curriculum

2. Design innovative solutions

3. Create and test prototypes

To support teachers and students through this learning experience, this Toolkit includes:

1. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, the United Nations adopted 17 SDGs with the aim of addressing and tackling 17 global issues by 2030. These goals represent a call-to-action for teachers, students and other people of all ages to create a better future together. To learn more, visit the United Nations' website.

To complete the Problem-based Design Project, select one SDG. Choose a goal based on curriculum connections and your students' interests. For example, you could explore and improve your local community by focusing on Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.

View the curriculum connections for more detailed grade- and subject-specific connections.

2. Skill Challenges

Support students' skill development by selecting two or three skill challenges based on grade-specific curriculum connections, available materials and your students' interests. Low-tech challenges are available and have been indicated below.
Note: Connections to the Grade 5 curriculum have been included to accommodate educators who teach split-grade classes.
3. Problem-based Design Project

Learn more about your chosen SDG through a Problem-based Design Project. Using the lesson plans, guide students through the design of innovative solutions to problems relating to the selected SDG, and help them create prototypes to model the solutions they have designed. Over the course of 5 lessons, students will:

Lesson 1: Learn about the inquiry topic and select a focus for an innovation design.

Lesson 2: Share prototype ideas with the class, receive feedback and make design improvements.

Lesson 3: Improve design based on feedback, create a new sketch, list needed materials and produce a task list to divide the work.

Lesson 4: Transform design sketch into a tangible prototype.

Lesson 5: Share project by "selling" prototype idea to a panel of peer entrepreneurs.

Access the entire STEM Education Toolkit to view and download lesson plans, instructional slides, curriculum connections and worksheets.

The STEM Education Toolkit was developed in collaboration with Ingenium.

This project was made possible through the financial contribution of the Ontario Ministry of Education and the Government of Canada under the Canada-Ontario Agreement on Minority-Language Education and Second Official-Language Instruction, 2013-2014 to 2017-2018.

Note that the content is binding only on its authors and does not necessarily reflect the views of the Ontario Ministry of Education or the Government of Canada.

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Dig deep into inquiry- and problem-based learning with your students using the STEM Education Toolkit and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). The outline below is intended for teachers delivering the Ontario Curriculum to students in Grades 6 to 8; however, the Toolkit can also be adapted for use with any grade level.

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This is kid friendly website for students to explore different animals, science experiments, videos, games and more. When you want to give students a chance to explore on their own this is a great site to use!

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PebbleGo is a great online database that is kid friendly. The only issue is you need a subscription but if your school has one then this is a great site to send your students to for any research projects you may be interested in leading.

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A curriculum-connected, supplemental learning tool for elementary school educators

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With just one simple username and password for your entire school, signing in for even your youngest students is a snap.

Your students are all set for simple, safe, and fun research that will develop a lifelong thirst for knowledge.

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Discover the go-to curriculum-connected research tool specifically for elementary school educators and students

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This website is another great resource for some worksheets. They have free worksheets with answer keys and each topic has multiple worksheets if you need to support different levels of students or cover the lesson more than once.

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Grade 1 Science Worksheets | K5 Learning

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Grade 1 Science Worksheets. Introducing concepts related to life sciences (plants, animals and our bodies), earth science (weather, the environment and patterns of the earth sun and moon) and the physical sciences (forces and motion, energy, sound and light, properties of materials and simple machin…