SNC1W Unit 6: Science in Our Community (Culminating Task and Final)

Everything to finish SNC1W. In teams of two or three, students find a real local problem tied to a STEM career or skilled trade, research it, write a proposal with a safety plan, then design, build, test and improve an experiment or prototype that draws on at least two science strands. They present at a class science fair and write an individual reflection. A model project (model rain gardens for a flooding schoolyard) runs through every lesson.

Includes the culminating task (suggested 10%, counted as classroom work) with a rubric and a project kit, and a 75-minute final written exam (20%) across all strands, with a worked answer key, matching Ontario's 2026–27 evaluation policy (65% classroom work, 20% final exam, 15% attendance and participation).

Lessons

1. Find a Local Problem
2. Research and Plan
3. Design and Build
4. Test and Improve
5. Present Your Solution
6. Course Review

What you get

• A teacher lesson plan for every lesson: curriculum expectations, learning goals and success criteria, a timed sequence, differentiation, safety notes, look-fors and answer keys
• Detailed slideshows (15 to 17 slides per lesson) with speaker notes on every slide: what to say, what to ask, what to look for and how long to spend, plus warm-ups, worked examples, model answers and answer-key slides
• Student handouts, lab sheets and exit tickets
• Editable Word and PowerPoint files, plus PDFs
• A unit overview, the culminating task and rubric, a project kit with a proposal and approval form, and the final evaluation with an answer key

Built for the 2022 Ontario Grade 9 Science curriculum (SNC1W, de-streamed), and easy to adapt for any Grade 9 science class.