Addtional+Links

__**Additional Links for Teacher Resources and Development**__ = =

__**Professional Development**__
units using the Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner. It is part of the Planner's Teacher Companions database that includes the following components: Teaching/Learning Strategies, Assessment Companion, ESL/ELD Companion, Speical Education Companion, Explanatory Notes. || These objectives include: || Articles to help teachers clarify their ideas regarding the Nature of Science (NOS) and ways to incorporate NOS into the classroom via lesson plans and teaching techniques ||
 * __**Teaching Strategies**__ ||
 * Merlot Pedagogy Protal || This web portal contains a list of sites that will help you create and plan active learning activities in your course. ||
 * __Instructional Strategies Online__ || Five categories of instructional strategies and explanation of these five categories can be found within this site ||
 * [[file:Teaching Strategies.xps]] || An outline of prominent teaching strategies ||
 * [[file:The Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner.pdf]] || This Teaching/Learning Companion is intended to assist teachers designing instructional
 * [[file:Choosing Instructional Strategies.pdf]] || A sample of suggested teaching strategies for teaching students with AD/HD and the needs of other students ||
 * __**Ethics**__ ||
 * [[file:Ethics in Education.xps]] || A website dedicated to promoting a free exchange of ideas among secondary school educators about teaching and discussing ethics ||
 * [[file:Doing the Ethical Think may be Right but it isn't Automatic.xps]] || An article about how people are critical of other's ethical beliefs much more than their own ||
 * Institute for Global Ethics || A curriculum to provide a hands-on, interactive classroom model for teaching ethics in educational settings ||
 * [[file:Teaching Ethics.xps]] || A discussion about a set of objectives and suggestions on how they might be adapted to the schools
 * Stimulate the moral imagination of students.
 * Help students recognize moral issues.
 * Help students analyze key moral concepts and principles.
 * Stimulate students' sense of responsibility.
 * Help students deal effectively with moral ambiguity and disagreement. ||
 * [[file:Educational Dangers of Facebook.pdf]] || Should teachers blindly use Facebook as a learning tool in the classroom withoutconsidering issues regarding intellectual property, cyberbullying and privacy? ||
 * __**Nature of Science**__ ||
 * [[file:Weaving in the story of science.pdf]]
 * Teaching the Nature of Science || A high-impact introductory unit on the nature of modern science, especially in Biology ||

__**Science Fair**__
__Science Fair Resources__ - includes teacher's planning guide, scheduling information, and judging guides and rubrics __Science Fair Project Ideas__ Science Fair Information for Parents and Educators - Ontario Science Centre

__**Labs**__
media type="youtube" key="cr7roogzM8c" height="155" width="280" - video on lab safety

__**Usefull Websites**__
__Science Lab__ - a website full of labs for all grade levels, includes homework help, experiments, science fair ideas and resources Science Teacher Resource Centre - resources are divided by topic, includes information on labs and teaching tips Teachertube - a site for videos, documents, photos and channels of videos on a range of topics

__**Free Posters**__
[|Discover Science - "Make Waves" Poster] [|Physics Posters] Human Genome Poster Water Education Posters Nasa - Earth, Land, Ice and Water Posters

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