Lesson Ideas - Intermediate Senior Science - Grades 9-10 - Research Guides at Queen's University Library

Grade 9 Lesson Plan Ideas

Science North (Sudbury, Ontario)

Includes lesson plans for Biology, Electricity/Energy, General Science, Vaccines. Space, and Coding.

Ontario Science Centre - Curriculum Resources for Grade 9 (Toronto, Ontario)

Canada Science and Technology Museum (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sustainable ecosystems

Science First Peoples - Secondary What is Living? (pg 140) Discussion Topic - What is Living and Non-Living (Abiotic or Biotic) - What does Western Science tell us? - What do Indigenous Ways of Knowing tell us?
Science First Peoples - Teacher Resource Guide Connecting the Spheres (pg. 159) - Web of life activity Carbon Sequestration in Trees (pg. 160) - Students can go outside and calculate how much carbon the trees in their surroundings are sequestering
About Science First Peoples This resource guide was created to complement the BC science curriculum from grades 5-12. It includes Indigenous knowledges and perspectives and ways in which to incorporate them into your lessons. While this resource incorporates Indigenous communities from British Columbia many of these topics can provide a starting place on how to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing into your science courses.

The Study of the Universe

Indigenous Knowledge & Our Connection to the Land Archeoastronomy (pg. 33) - This includes information on building structures in the night sky as well as the Anishinaabe names for some of the constellations and stars. This also offers follow up questions Astronomy (pg. 51) - Cree stories about various constellations and stars. This also offers follow up questions
Build Your Own Planisphere (Star Wheel)
This PDF includes the directions and teacher guide to creating a star wheel

You can also change your star wheel here by changing the latitude and clicking on the new star wheel PDF. The Ojibwe Star Map can be layered in to supplement other stories about the stars as well as other points of view than just the Greeks.

Grade 10 Lesson Ideas

Science North
Includes lessons plans about Biology, General Science, Vaccines, Chemistry, Coding, and Physics
Ontario Science Centre
Lesson plans and ideas for Grade 10

Light and Geometric Optics

Legends of the Northern Lights From CBC News Interactive

Climate Change

Forests for the Future Climate Change (pg. 16) - Greenhouse Gases [3]
Movie: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change - This movie is also produced in Inuit - Includes how the Inuit ways of life have been altered as the climate changes in the arctic - Provides students with an accurate representation of how climate change has already drastically affected many people and will gradually affect more and more communities further south

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