Lesson Planning (Secondary)

First Nations Education Steering Committee: Science First Peoples 5-9 Teacher Resource Guide

Science World: Educator Resources - Filter offerings by Grade level for secondary resources

TeachBC: Secondary Science Lessons

PhET Interactive Simulations for Science & Math

Climate Justice in BC: Lessons for Transformation (Gr. 4-12)

TeachBC: Environmental Justice Resources

Environmental Educators Provincial Specialist Association (EEPSA):

• Resources
• Lessons

Critical Thinking Consortium: Shining a Light on Solar Energy: Developing energy literacy through critical inquiry

Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre: K-12 Educators

BC Agriculture in the Classroom: Educational Resources

Get Real on Climate (Gr. 9-12)

H.R. Macmillan Space Centre: Blogs

• includes articles & activities

National Science Teaching Association (NSTA): Free Resources

Ocean Wise: Átl’ḵa7tsem - Txwnéwu7ts Howe Sound Education Kit (Middle Years & High School)

Science Fair Foundation: Resources for Teachers

British Columbia Species: Native, Introduced, or Invasive? (Gr. 10) 
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Cardiorespiratory Fitness

Design a Watering System for a School Garden

Lesson plans about nature and the environment by the Canadian Museum of Nature

Driving the Future: Transportation, Energy, and the Environment

BC Curriculum Instructional Sample: Quarks and Leptons (Gr. 8-9)

Use of Chemical Elements (Gr. 8-9)

Acid-Base Titration of an Eggshell (Lab): Gr. 9-12

Acid Rain. Where Have all the Rainbows Gone? Gr. 11-12

Atomic Theory

Balloon Cars Revisited: Alternative Fuel Gases

Basically Acids Gr. 10

Bowling Balls- Will they Sink or Float?

Blowing Up Balloons, Chemically Gr. 9-12

Boiling Water with Ice: Effect of Pressure on the Boiling Point

Buffer Zone: Acid-Base Chemistry in the World’s Oceans Gr. 11-12

Burning Down the House

Chemical Eating

Chemistry Innovations in Sustainable Development Gr. 11-12

Clock Reaction

Close Encounters of the Polymer Kind Gr. 11

Combustion or Oxidation

Connections to Climate Change in Grade 11 and 12 Science

Group and Periodic Properties (Lab)

Green Chemistry Replacement Exercises Gr. 11-12

Hebden Resources: There are “advice packages” for inexperienced Chemistry teachers. On the right side, there are also links
to other Chemistry resources that were created by Jim Hebden (i.e. ‘General Resources’ = http://www.bcscta.ca/resources/hebden/genhebden.htm)

Ion Propulsion: We Need a Push!

Investigating Acids and Bases

Investigating Chemical Reactions Gr. 9-12

Investigating Density

Jim Hebden Chemistry Resources

Periodic Table of Elements

Trends of the Periodic Table

Electricity: Electric House Project (Gr. 11-12)

Electricity & Magnetism: Headphones Design (Gr. 11-12)

Force & Motion (Gr. 9-10)

Light and Solar Cell Basics (Gr. 9-10)

Magnetism & Electromagnetism (Gr. 9-12)

Physics & Archery

Physics & Hang Gliding

Polarized Light

Secondary Physics Lessons from Brockport High School

Share My Lesson: Physics

STEM Lesson Plans

Thermodynamics (Gr. 9-10)

Wave-Particle Duality (Gr. 12)

Waves & Sound: Building a Band (Gr. 9-10)

There are a number of professional journals and magazines for teachers in which you can find lesson and activity ideas and other information to inform lesson design:

Science World - A publication by and for students published by Scholastic Inc. Includes feature articles, interviews, science in the news, fiction, puzzles and cartoons. There is also an accompanying Teacher's Edition.

Science Teacher - Features articles, interviews, mentoring, recent news notes, book reviews, and National Science Teachers Association news.

Because the UBC Library's system for classifying materials is aimed at organizing research and scholarship, searching for curriculum materials can be difficult. We recommend using the following terms for a targeted search within the library catalogue for K-12 teaching and learning resources. These results have been limited to books and e-books in the Education Library:

• "study and teaching"
• "lesson plans" or "lesson planning"
• "activity program" or "activity programs"
• "juvenile literature" - information books for children & young adults
• "juvenile fiction" - novels and picture books
• "pz4.9" - picture books
• "juvenile poetry" - poetry for children & young adults

Add these terms to the subject area, lesson topic, or theme to find books and other materials on your topic.

For example: "study and teaching" AND science

The below handout will provide more guidance for effectively searching for teaching resources in the UBC Library: