Free lesson: Belonging (Grade 9 English)
Try a complete lesson free: students read an original short story about a Grade 9 student's name and explore how small moments show whether we belong.
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Free lesson: The Fair Test Lab (Grade 9 Science)
Try a complete lesson free: students build paper helicopters, test how wing length affects fall time, and write their first lab report conclusion.
Free lesson: The Pythagorean Relationship (Grade 9 Math)
Try a complete lesson free: students draw squares on the sides of triangles to discover a² + b² = c², find missing sides, and learn the carpenter's 3-4-5 check for square corners.
ENL1W Grade 9 English (De-streamed)
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ENL1W Complete Course: Grade 9 English (De-streamed)
Everything you need to teach the new de-streamed Grade 9 English course for a full semester: six units, the literacy portfolio and conference, and a final exam.
ENL1W Unit 1: Who I Am
Identity, voice and belonging: an identity iceberg, “Where I'm From” poems, point of view, memoir moves and a class story circle, ending with a personal narrative or spoken word showcase.
ENL1W Unit 2: Word Lab
How language works: morphemes, word detective strategies, sentence remixes, grammar, punctuation “crime scenes,” cohesive ties and fluency, ending with reader's theatre.
ENL1W Unit 3: Storywork
First Nations, Métis and Inuit voices: story circles, short films from the NFB's free Indigenous Cinema collection, E. Pauline Johnson's poetry and contemporary texts, ending with a comparison task.
ENL1W Unit 4: Digital Citizens
Digital footprints, privacy policies, kindness online, curated feeds, misinformation, fact-checking, a misinformation escape room and generative AI, ending with a fact-check report and a guide for younger students.
ENL1W Unit 5: Lit Circles
Novels in literature circles: a book tasting, six rotating roles, four circle meetings and mini-lessons on point of view, flashback, juxtaposition, allusion, inference, theme and style, ending with a literary analysis and book talk.
ENL1W Unit 6: Make It Better
Research, design and persuasion: a problem-finding walk, empathy maps, fair surveys and interviews, a design sprint, ethos, pathos and logos, a written proposal and a Dragons' Den style pitch.
ENL1W Portfolio and Final Exam
The literacy portfolio and conference, review lessons on sight texts, poetry and timed writing, and an original final evaluation with an answer key.
ENL1W Buffer Lessons
Five stand-alone ENL1W lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers, each tied to specific curriculum expectations.
MTH1W Grade 9 Mathematics (De-streamed)
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MTH1W Complete Course: Grade 9 Mathematics (De-streamed)
Everything you need to teach de-streamed Grade 9 Math for a full semester: seven units covering number, algebra, coding, relations, geometry and measurement, financial literacy and data, plus a culminating modelling task and a final exam.
MTH1W Unit 1: The Story of Numbers
Number talks, number systems from many cultures, number sets, density, infinity and limits, integers, and positive and negative fractions in real contexts, with first steps in Python.
MTH1W Unit 2: Powers and Proportions
Powers, zero and negative exponents, scientific notation and exponent laws, then ratios, rates, percentages (including HST) and proportional reasoning.
MTH1W Unit 3: Algebra and Code
The history of algebra, patterns to expressions, equivalence, simplifying, writing and solving equations, formulas, and Python variables, functions and conditions.
MTH1W Unit 4: Linear and Non-Linear Relations
Growing and shrinking patterns, first differences, four representations, rate of change and initial value, equations of lines, special lines, inequalities, transformations and points of intersection.
MTH1W Unit 5: Geometry and Measurement
Measurement stories and careers, metric and imperial conversions, circle and triangle properties in design, the Pythagorean relationship, changing dimensions, and volumes of prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones.
MTH1W Unit 6: Money Matters
Lessons from money history, appreciation and depreciation, simple and compound interest, the real cost of borrowing, coding a loan, and building and modifying budgets.
MTH1W Unit 7: Data and Modelling
Big data and its consequences, the modelling cycle, measures of centre and spread, quartiles and box plots, scatter plots, correlation and regression in Desmos, coding with data, and planning a model.
MTH1W Culminating Task and Final Evaluation
Model It, a four-class culminating modelling task with two teacher conferences, two review classes covering every strand, and a 75-minute final exam with a make-up version and a full marking guide.
MTH1W Buffer Lessons
Five stand-alone MTH1W lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers, each tied to specific curriculum expectations.
SNC1W Grade 9 Science (De-streamed)
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SNC1W Complete Course: Grade 9 Science (De-streamed)
Everything you need to teach the de-streamed Grade 9 Science course for a full semester: six units covering biology, chemistry, physics and space, the culminating task and a final evaluation.
SNC1W Unit 1: Thinking Like a Scientist
The STEM skills students use all year: lab safety and WHMIS, testable questions and variables, measurement and graphing, a paper-helicopter fair test, research with SIFT, Python coding, an engineering design challenge and the people who do science.
SNC1W Unit 2: Sustainable Ecosystems and Climate Change
Ecosystems, energy flow, matter cycles, photosynthesis and respiration labs, biodiversity, human impacts and climate change, including impacts on communities across Canada and sustainable practices from First Nations, Métis and Inuit knowledge.
SNC1W Unit 3: The Nature of Matter
Classifying matter, density, physical and chemical change, atomic models, Bohr-Rutherford diagrams, the periodic table, compounds and formulas, household chemicals and the life cycle of consumer products.
SNC1W Unit 4: Electricity
Static and current electricity, conductors, circuits, Ohm's law (by hand and in Python), series and parallel circuits, power, energy cost and efficiency, Ontario's electricity sources and an energy action plan.
SNC1W Unit 5: Space Exploration
The solar system and universe, astronomical distances and scale, the Sun, seasons, Moon phases and eclipses, the origin of the universe, many ways of knowing the sky, satellites and the impacts of space exploration.
SNC1W Unit 6: Science in Our Community (Culminating Task and Final)
The end of the course: a culminating design project on a real local problem, linked to STEM careers and skilled trades, plus a course review and an original final written exam with an answer key.
SNC1W Buffer Lessons
Five stand-alone SNC1W lessons for flex days, short weeks and supply teachers, each tied to specific curriculum expectations.
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