Curate your own exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario; swim with African penguins at the San Diego Zoo; travel back in time at the Louvre; visit the Canadian Museum of History; blast into outer space with NASA. This site offers all of these opportunities for your student to experience.
Excellent Interactive Lessons AND Assessments for All Levels of Math for Teachers and Students
CK-12 Physical Science for Middle School FlexBook® covers core physical science concepts and includes SIMs, PLIX, real world examples, and videos.
This is an extremely comprehensive unit on Physical Science (covering the Electricity outcomes for Grade 6). Some of the chapters are not aligned directly with grade 6 outcomes, but have the potential to be used for enrichment activities. In addition to what is listed above, this resource also includes online practice quizzes for students. Teachers can download printable versions of the quizzes, along with an answer key.
*You will have to sign up to ck12.org to access everything, but it is completely free!
Canadian Geographic Education provides learning resources to help improve students’ understanding of the world they live in. Geographically literate students are better prepared to face global challenges and have the skills necessary to become effective change agents. Use these resources to inspire curiosity and exploration in your classroom!
Lesson plans
Videos
Maps
Infographics
Activities
Crash Course Kids combines the same engaging lecture-style content delivery with animated graphics that focus on grade school science.
Topics include Earth Science, Physical Science, Biology, Geography, Engineering, and Astronomy.
These videos are amazing!
You can learn pretty much anything with these videos!
Science, History, Language Arts, & Study Skills, Games & More!
This site offers games, activities and resources in the following categories:
GAMES
MATH
LANG. ARTS
HISTORY
USA
GEOGRAPHY
SCIENCE
PEOPLE
HOLIDAYS
A cross-curricular project where students engage in a makerspace acitivity learning about electrical science, ELA script planning, and art!
Explore Learning offers 3 programs to support students learning at home:
Gizmos (Grades 3-12) Get hands-on with math and science.
Gizmos are online simulations that excite curiosity and invite interaction. We’ve got over 400 Gizmos in our library covering topics and concepts in math and science for grades 3-12. Gizmos help students dig deeper into subjects and really understand challenging concepts.
Reflex (Grades 2-6) When they use Reflex, kids love math.
Adaptive and individualized, Reflex is the most effective system for mastering basic math facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Full of games that students love, Reflex takes students at every level and helps them quickly gain math fact fluency and confidence. And educators and parents love the powerful reporting that allows them to monitor progress and celebrate success.
Science4Us (Grades K-2) It’s never too early to learn science!
Science4Us covers Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science and Earth & Space Science with lessons specifically designed for K-2 students. The sessions have 1000’s of online and offline activities that can be completed in as little as ten minutes, and teach students using videos, interaction, poems, songs, and digital notebooks.
Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants brings science, exploration, adventure, and conservation to students through virtual speakers and field trips with leading experts across the globe. All past live streams are available and access is free.
"Kids can use this as a resource for a variety of subjects. With biographies, an atlas, and other reference materials, Factmonster is an informative place for kids to find fun facts and play educational games." (Common Sense Media)
Resources are organized across the top toolbar by subject, homework, games and tools.
Find a ton of pre-recorded virtual events from Flipgrid to use with your class.
There is something here for every age group, and every subject!
Enjoy exploring.
Find future Flipgrid events here (copy and paste into a browser) https://blog.flipgrid.com/upcomingflipgridliveevents
This site offers games for students in math, science, the elements, reading comprehension and some just for fun!
The University of Saskatchewan offers this tremendous resource that promotes the richness and diversity of the sciences, nurture curiosity and innovation, and inspire students to consider a career in science, and support teachers to provide exciting educational experiences.
Check out the great collection of video and activity resources for teachers and parents to supplement and enhance Grade 6 science learning.
This site from the University of Saskatchewan provides a collection of videos, activities, and experiments that align with the grade 6 science units: Diversity of Life, Understanding Electricity, Principles of Flight, Solar System.
This is a year plan created using GAP resources that any teacher can take and use. This is intended for teachers new to teaching Grade Six, but can be used by any Grade Six teacher to offer ideas of what can be used to teach the content of the Grade Six curriculum.
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.
Now with ELA!
*Math K-12 (including "get ready for grade X to prepare") + college level
*Computing
*Science
*Arts, Business & Humanities
*Reading & ELA
*Life Skills - growth mindset, AI, financial literacy, SEL, safety, career
*Economics
Videos, Podcasts, Quizzes!
Learn how anything works. It's all here from health, science, home/garden, auto, tech, money, lifestyle, enterainment, adventure, animals and more!
This is one of the best K-12 Science resources available!
Resources are available for Grades Pre-school-12 including multiple articles and videos available for students to explore the many science concepts being learned in the classroom.
You can:
*Book an outreach visit from a scientist to teach STEM (science, technology, engineering & math) to your class
*Enter your Grade 6-8 students in team-based competitive enrichment events
*Use CurioCity with Grade 8-12 students to learn about STEM careers, Space and countless other topics with videos. You can also register and get amazing resources for STEM (in English or French) for FREE! (These are even aligned to SK curriculum!)
*Visit Ideapark for Pre-school to Grade 3 to register and receive access to a wealth of FREE STEM resources.
*Register for Tomatosphere to investigate the effects of outer space on seed germination with your class. Tomatosphere™ is a hands-on program that builds scientific inquiry and experimentation skills.
This resource shares a list of articles currently available on the Let's Talk Science website that connect to the Grade 6 Science curriculum in Saskatchewan. The articles could be used by teachers or students to support the teaching and learning of the science curriculum in the classroom.The homepage for the website is: https://letstalkscience.ca/