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Everything you need to get Genius Hour started in your classroom - for students and their parents. Fantastic images, QR code to a video and an explanation of its goals and intent!

A perfect powerpoint to teach convection! Perfect resource for Heat and the Environment unit of Ontario grade 7 science.

Introduction to pure substance and mixtures. Details homogenous and heterogenous mixtures as well as solvents. Great to start unit!

Perfect graphic organizer to get students thinking about the challenges the physical environment presents, and how we, as humans have adapted and responded. Have we seized opportunities or simply solved challenges? You decide!

A perfect hands on activity for Ontario grade seven science Heat and the Environment. Students are asked to APPLY their knowledge of energy transfer to building a coffee keeper that will retain heat for a thirty minute period. Students' designs will be tested against a tradition thermos and then they will be required to complete a lab report and discussion questions. A great application and thinking/inquiry task!

Research Assignment Must Have! Students select a seismic activity (tsunami, earth quake, volcano) natural disaster to create a one page fact sheet to share with the class. Combines earth science, geography and media.

Hands on experiment using eggs to look at and examine the process of osmosis. Perfect for grade eight Ontario science cells unit!

A perfect culminating activity for the Interactions in the Environment unit of grade seven science. Includes assignment outline and rubric. Students must combine a minimum of 4 food chains into a web for a particular habitat/biome and must also explain the energy transfers that exist at each level. Task also combines knowledge of producers, various consumers, scavengers, and decomposers. Assignment can be modified to be completed electronically.

A perfect assignment for grade seven Science - Heat in the Environment. Students (ind. or group) must create a handout for their classmates on an alternative energy method. This assignment asks students to not only address the method and how it works, but to analyze the benefits and drawbacks, while also linking the energy source to the lives of Ontario residents (where its used/found; how families could adopt the method ect.)

Planning and graphic organizer to get your students started on their own Genius Hour Project! Perfect for them and for you to make a bulletin board of their topics!

This assignments introduces grade 8 students to the Ontario Science and Technology Curriculum that they will be exploring throughout the year. Students not only have to construct using technology skills a triangular prism but also to put together a book of concepts that will be covered throughout the year. GREAT INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY FOR SCIENCE! A SEPTEMBER MUST HAVE! *Assignment can be adjusted for various other grades*

Great introductory activity for September! Students explore the strands of science that they will cover in the school and have to find a way to demonstrate the concepts that will be covered on a cube that they must build! Hands on, and fun!

Rubric to Assess Ring of Fire Fact Sheet Assignment

Perfect review worksheet after teaching convection using the powerpoint in my store!

A very comprehensive lesson on conduction and heat transfer. Outlines insulators and conductors, and uses many real life examples. Includes 4 responses questions at the end of the lesson.