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Sample Lesson Plans
    -Differentiated Lesson Plan - Grade 7 Mathematics
    -NMS Science Club Lesson Plan - DNA Extraction from Bananas
    -Mixtures and Solutions Lesson Plan (Grade 7 Science) 
    -French Immersion Math Lesson Plan (Grade 7)
    -Making the Most of Classroom Time - Lesson Plan
    -BCMS Math Club Lesson Plan

Worksheets and Activities (Click PDF to download)

This is a grade 11 chemistry lab that I prepared for my students during my first teaching internship. Completing this experiment really helped them to gain a better understanding of the five types of chemical reactions and their respective properties. PDF

This is a Mind Map activity that I used to start the Drugs and Alcohol Unit in my grade 7 health classes. It helped to identify student misconceptions and to promote a whole class discussion on the topic of alcohol consumption.

This is a math manipulatives activity that I prepared for my grade 11 Foundations of Mathematics class to help them understand the relationship between the scale factor and the areas of similar objects. This hands on approach appealed to many students. PDF

This is a Loop Game that I prepared for my grade 11 chemistry students to help them convert between chemical names and chemical formulas. They had a lot of fun with it and I was genuinely pleased by its success. PDF

This is a shape poetry activity that I did with my grade 7 students in English Language Arts. Each student was given 4 post-it notes and had to write a single word on each that was representative of its color.

This is a solubility experiment that I had my grade 7 science students complete as part of the Mixtures and Solutions Unit.  Completing this experiment gave students a better understanding of saturated, unsaturated, and supersaturated solutions. PDF

This is a literary devices worksheet that I prepared for my grade 7 English Language Arts students as part of the Poetry unit. PDF

This is a science journal entry form that I prepared for my grade 7 students. Each week we did an experiment and wrote it up together so that they could improve their scientific writing. After a few weeks, I could start to see their writing improving and could tell that they had gained confidence in this regard. PDF

Other Teaching Resources (Click to Enlarge)

Understanding copyright rules and plagiarism in technology

A project on projects! Completed as part of our measurement and evaluation course, and an excllent resource that I will use in my own classroom.

This is a Jeopardy game that I prepared as a review activity for the heat unit in grade 7 science. The students really enjoyed playing it and found it helpful in their review.

This is a project-based learning module that I prepared with some of my colleagues as part of our PBL course. Our module focuses on the importance of weather in our everyday lives and coincides nicely with the weather unit of the grade 10 science curriculum. Word Doc

Chemistry Eleven - Stoichiometry Review

Reaction Rates Exit Slips - How do you slow down (red), speed up (green), or maintain (yellow) the rate of a chemical reaction?

Here we are at the launching of our first publication!

An example of a math warm-up activity that I presented to my classmates in our math methods course and used at the Bliss Carman Math Club. Kenken puzzles are a lot of fun and an excellent opening activity for middle and high school math classes.

This is an informational brochure that I prepared for my French Immersion Methods course. The brochure describes 5 websites that are useful resources for teaching middle level and high school science in French Immersion classrooms. PDF