Publisher's Synopsis
Experienced educators share their best, classroom-tested ideas in this teacher-friendly, activity-based resource.
The grade 4 book is divided into four units:
- Habitats and Communities
- Pulleys and Gears
- Light and Sound
- Rocks and Minerals
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.)
