Hands-On Science and Technology for Ontario, Grade 6: An Inquiry Approach

Experienced educators share their best, classroom-tested ideas in this teacher-friendly, activity-based resource.

The grade 6 book is divided into four units:

1. Biodiversity
2. Flight
3. Electricity and Electrical Devices

4. Space

   STAND-OUT COMPONENTS

• custom-written for the Ontario curriculum

• uses an inquiry-based scientific and technological approach

• builds understanding of Indigenous knowledge and perspectives

  TIME-SAVING, COST-EFFECTIVE FEATURES

• includes resources for both teachers and students

• a four-part instructional process: activate, action, consolidate and debrief, enhance

• an emphasis on technology, sustainability, and personalized learning

• a fully developed assessment plan for assessment for, as, and of learning

• a focus on real-life technological problem solving

• learning centres that focus on multiple intelligences and universal design for learning (UDL)

• land-based learning activities and Makerspace centres

• access to digital image banks and digital reproducibles (Find download instructions in the Appendix of the book.)