Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire.

Students are introduced to gear transmissions and gear ratios using LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robots, gears and software. They discover how gears work and how they can be used to adjust a vehicle's power. Specifically, they learn how to build the transmission part of a vehicle by designing gear trains with different gear ratios. Students quickly recognize that some tasks require vehicle speed while others are more suited for vehicle power. They are introduced to torque, which is a twisting force, and to speed the two traits of all rotating engines, including mobile robots using gears, bicycles and automobiles. Once students learn the principles behind gear ratios, they are put to the test in two simple design activities that illustrate the mechanical advantages of gear ratios. The "robot race" is better suited for a quicker robot while the "robot push" calls for a more powerful robot. A worksheet and post-activity quiz verify that students understand the concepts, including the tradeoff between torque and speed.

Students are challenged to think as biomedical engineers and brainstorm ways to administer medication to a patient who is unable to swallow. They learn about the advantages and disadvantages of current drug delivery methods—oral, injection, topical, inhalation and suppository—and pharmaceutical design considerations, including toxicity, efficacy, size, solubility/bioavailability and drug release duration. They apply their prior knowledge about human anatomy, the circulatory system, polymers, crystals and stoichiometry to real-world biomedical applications. A Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation and worksheets are provided. This lesson prepares students for the associated activity in which they create and test large-size drug encapsulation prototypes to provide the desired delayed release and duration timing.

Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GPGP). What students ultimately do is research information on the plastics pollution in the oceans and present that information as a short, eye-catching newsletter suitable to hand out to restaurant customers. This activity focuses on teaching students to conduct their own research on a science-technology related topic and present it in a compelling manner that includes citing source information without plagiarism. By doing this, students gain experience and skills with general online searching as well as word processing and written and visual communication.

Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.

Asking for help for mental health support and stigma's attached. Building Your Support Team. Psychaitrist, Family Doctor, Psychologist and counsellor, community health organizations

Access leadership and HR courses. You will need to sign up to enrol.

Courses offered include:
*Discovering and implementing core values
*Align your organization
*Build a 1 page strategic plan
*Personality testing
*How to delegate
*Assessing a team
*Performance reviews & More!

Transfer of many resources from the old Sun West EAL Wiki. Vocabulary Development

This guide will help you get started using Mathletics in your classroom. In Sun West, contact your SBA for log in information.

CommonLit 360 is here! The CommonLit Team is so excited to show teachers the CommonLit 360 Curriculum. This comprehensive, fully digital, and engaging curriculum is available for FREE for all teachers with a CommonLit account here: https://www.commonlit.org/en/library/.... Yes, it's all free!

In this webinar, our very own Adrienne Favors, who has held a key role in developing the curriculum, will walk you through all of the NEW units and lesson types you’ll be seeing on CommonLit.

Sun West teachers and students can access CommonLIt & CommonLit360 via the CLEVER portal.

Number Talks are a very valuable tool to use in engaging students in talking and learning about math and math concepts.

The following graphic was developed by a group of PeBL Mentor teachers. This graphic examines the implementation of Outcome Based Math in a Classroom.

This resource describes how to get started as a PLC focused initially on supplemental learning package development.

This informational text introduces students to solar energy's role in warming the Earth's land and water and to the fact that dark-colored surfaces absorb more of the Sun's energy than do light-colored ones. This version is a full-color PDF that can be printed, cut and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level.

This informational text introduces students to solar energy's role in warming the Earth's land and water and to the fact that dark-colored surfaces absorb more of the Sun's energy than do light-colored ones. This is a PDF containing the informational text and a glossary. The text is written at a kindergarten through grade one reading level.

Teacher Page

After presenting the basic ideas of a RAFT to students as well as the sample roles, audiences, formats, topics and verbs, place students into cooperative groups and give them the following assignment. The assignment is also outlined on the student page)

Student Page

Your teacher will explain the important aspects about writing RAFTs. You should refer to the notes below in developing your own RAFTs.

In this lesson, students will investigate error. As shown in earlier activities from navigation lessons 1 through 3, without an understanding of how errors can affect your position, you cannot navigate well. Introducing accuracy and precision will develop these concepts further. Also, students will learn how computers can help in navigation. Often, the calculations needed to navigate accurately are time consuming and complex. By using the power of computers to do calculations and repetitive tasks, one can quickly see how changing parameters likes angles and distances and introducing errors will affect their overall result.

In this lesson, students learn how to determine location by triangulation. We describe the process of triangulation and practice finding your location on a worksheet, in the classroom, and outdoors.