Hands-On Science and Technology for Ontario, Grade 1 : An Inquiry Approach

Experienced educators share their best, classroom-tested ideas in this teacher-friendly, activity-based resource. The grade 1 book is divided into four units:

Needs and Characteristics of Living Things
Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures
Energy in Our Lives
Understanding Earth and Space Systems

STAND-OUT COMPONENTS

• custom-written for the Ontario curriculum
• uses an inquiry-based scientific and technological approach

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.)