Science
[Grades 7-9] Digital Learning Objects for Science Classrooms
By The King's Center for Visualization in Science
The modules are designed to help students (ages 10 -15) understand the nature of scientific models and how a variety of 'good enough' models can be used to understand the particulate nature of matter, physical change, and chemical change.
The King's Centre for Visualization in Science Website
[Grades 1-8] Experiencing Science Process Skills
By Harcharan Pardhan
Teaching and learning science is exciting and meaningful, when learners and teachers are actively engaged in scientific adventures. This package contains a number of activities to provide opportunities for the learners to become more skilful in science processes.
[Grades 1-8] The Indispensable Plastic Bottle
By Harcharan Pardhan
This collection of hands-on science activities illustrates basic concepts and principles that are taught in most science curricula. Students’ sense of ownership is enhanced by constructing their own apparatus from common, inexpensive materials such as water bottles, jam jars and plastic cups.
[Grades 7-12] Light Tasks for Light Learning with Mirrors
By Harcharan Pardhan and Yasmeen Banoo
Using low-cost, easily available materials, these activities explore five concepts about the nature and properties of light: light carries energy, light travels in straight lines, reflected light is regular or irregular, mirrors can disperse or focus light, the nature of a mirror image depends on the shape of the mirror.
[Grades 4 to 9] Simple Machines
By Dougal MacDonald and Brenda Gustafson
This unit explores the principles and purpose of six simple machines: the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw. Students will come to understand and use such science concepts as how simple machines make work easier, a force is a push or pull, work is done when a force moves an object and the relationship between advantage or loss in force vis-a-vis distance.
[Grades 7-9] Solutions and Substances
By Sun Joo Hur
This resource presents fourteen concepts of chemical solutions in order to introduce the science of chemistry to students. Each concept is supported by one or more activities, each of which includes list of materials, step-by-step instructions, illustrations and a checkpoint.
[Grades 1-8] Sound, Magnetism and Forces
By Harcharan Pardhan
A concept map is presented on each topic (sound, magnets and forces such as gravity, friction and weight) with lesson plans to present them in the classroom. Inexpensive, readily available materials are used to demonstrate these principles
[Grades 4-12] Teacher’s Guide for Using Web-Based Resources in the Science Classroom
By Sun Joo Hur
Increasingly, teachers will need knowledge and skills to keep up with the new information age and effectively teach in the science classroom. This guidebook will be useful for teachers who are interested in the potential of the Web as an effective teaching tool, but who have little working knowledge of web-based resources.