SNC2D Unit 1: Science Skills Launch

How do scientists plan safe investigations and trust their results? Students refresh lab safety for biology, chemistry and optics, run a controlled inquiry with antacid tablets in water, practise significant digits, percent error and unit conversions, judge sources for reliability and bias, cite them in APA format and research Canadian scientists and science careers. All data sets and sources are original, and the labs use cheap, common materials.

Assessment of learning: a Lab Skills Practical (a controlled inquiry on antacid tablets) with a full lab report and a rubric.

Lessons

1. Lab Safety Refresh
2. Inquiry and the Lab Report
3. Data, Error and Precision
4. Research and Sources

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 summative task and rubric, and a Lab Skills Kit for the whole year (safety contract, lab report template, graph paper, research notes and citation organizer, and a significant digits and percent error reference)

Built for the Ontario Grade 10 Science, Academic curriculum (SNC2D), and easy to adapt for any Grade 10 science class.