Earth Science

A-212   Exciting Inventions

What toy was invented by a baker who liked to throw around empty pie tins? (frisbee) What tasty treat was invented by an eleven-year-old boy who left his soda pop and water concoction on the back porch one winter? (popsicle) Exciting inventions is the topic for [ see more ]

A-14   Minerals, Rocks, Volcanoes and Earthquakes

Earth Science at its greatest. Students explore the fascinating world of geology, learning everything from the causes of earthquakes and volcanoes to how to make a fossil. [ see more ]

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A-165   Technology Teasers

Technology Teasers contains a collection of 20 challenges relevant to the technology of mechanisms, electronics, and control. The challenges are mostly suitable for students who have had some experience with technology tools and processes for example cogs, pulleys [ see more ]

A-4   The Environment

This exciting look at the environment is sure to captivate students. The three-part format builds a base of information, cements it in, and culminates it with exciting, hands-on projects ... sure to draw the best out of [ see more ]

A-41   Wild, Wild Weather

Students tackle the mysteries and wonders of weather in this four part approach. The first section, Weather Tracking Chart, involves students measuring and tracking the weather on a daily basis. In the second part, [ see more ]

Life Science

A-171   Cells: The Building Blocks of Life

This unit allows the student to study the topic of cells in an exciting, yet integrated, fashion. The unit begins with a look at what cells are, followed by a study of the differences between one [ see more ]

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Physical Science

A-1   Electricity

The first part is a knowledged-based presentation of information using notes suitable for an overhead projector. Ten exciting activities and assignments accompany the [ see more ]

A-69   Energy Around Us

Students examine the very nature of energy, its many forms and the changes it can undergo. In general, students learn basic concepts and information as they go through a series of student notes. The notes are followed by [ see more ]

A-139   Forces on Structures & Mechanisms

May the force be with you! Students study and experience forces, and how they relate to simple machines and structures in this fast-paced unit. Students build bridges, catapults, and towers. They participate in meaningful activities associated with the theme of [ see more ]

A-142   Magnet Mania: Magnetism and Charged Particles

Magnet Mania is a three-part unit specifically designed to make the study of magnets a truly exciting classroom experience. The hands-on approach offers the students an opportunity to explore magnets, how they work, and their uses with the teacher as a facilitator [ see more ]

A-71   Magnificent Simple Machines

Hands on is definitely the order of the day as students inquire into and investigate the magnificent world of machines. Student notes explain the six simple machines... [ see more ]

A-68   Matter And Its Changes

In this fast-paced unit students discover that matter matters. An engaging array of activities combined with interesting worksheets compliments the concepts brought forward in the overhead student notes. Relating the study of matter, atoms, and molecules to the... [ see more ]

SET-109   MATTER SET (New!)

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A-140   Motion

Students get cool notions all about motion! This highly informative and simple-to-use unit teaches students all about motion - from linear motion, to oscillating motion, to reciprocating to rotational motion. Students participate in meaningful activities associated [ see more ]

Math

A-76   Art a la Carte : Art in Math

The lessons contained in this unit are very open-ended and adapt well to integration with math. Concepts such as symmetry, parallel lines, converging lines, tangents, geometric shapes, fractional parts and angles can all be [ see more ]

A-94   Art a la Carte : Basic Shape Shifters

This art unit is based upon the artistic premise that all artist's make use of some basic shapes when developing an image. Since most children enjoy cartooning, we will explore the shapes most commonly used by artists through [ see more ]

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A-161   Math Olympics Part II - Let's Compete Book II

This resource gives you and your students the necessary materials to run a math competition with a single classroom or multiple classrooms taking part. It also enables you to choose school teams for external competitions. As well, the two sets of questions in [ see more ]

A-162   Math Olympics Part III - Let's Compete

This resource gives you and your students the necessary materials to run a math competition with a single classroom or multiple classrooms taking part. It also enables you to choose school teams for external competitions. As well, the two sets of questions in [ see more ]

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History

A-170   New France

Explore Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, The Seven Years War, The Plains of Abraham and the Quebec Act. Discover how Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and the first settlers from France contributed to the development of North America. Our resource is an indepth [ see more ]

A-87   The War Of 1812

The War Of 1812 provides a backdrop for some of the most interesting people and events in the history of Canada. Causes of the war, major events and the Impact of the War of 1812 on the development of Canada are examined. As well, captivating personalities such [ see more ]

A-91   Titanic

Experience the Maiden Voyage of the unsinkable ship as never before! Lessons include the Titanic's construction and sinking, with a culmination project that has students creating a Living Museum. Groups will research passengers or crew members, write scripts and [ see more ]

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A-88   World War I - Canada And The Great War

Conflict is the central theme of this accurate account of the First World War. The unit emphasizes the integral role played by Canada, with topics ranging from life in the trenches to the Battle Of Vimy Ridge. The three-week unit is divided into three parts combining [ see more ]

A-90   World War II Total War

This unit examines all aspects of World War II - from its causes to its end. Canada's role is highlighted against the backdrop of a world at war. The four-week unit is divided into three parts combining optional lessons and a pictoral history with the main, information-based [ see more ]

Sports & Health

A-86   Mental Illness

In this unit, students explore the challenging, often misunderstood medical field of mental illness. Students come to terms with difficult topics such as schizophrenia, depression, suicide and eating disorders. Part I - Just The Facts uses notes photocopied onto [ see more ]

SET-123   OLYMPICS SET (New!)

Set of two teaching units containing (A-192) Summer Olympic Games and (A-191) Winter Olympic Games. When you puchase these units as part of the Olympic Games set you save 30% off the regular price. [ see more ]

Art

A-216   Amazing Artists

Did you know that besides painting the Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci really loved to party? Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his own ear because he didn't take criticism well? The interesting and intriguing world of Art and some of its most famous artists [ see more ]

A-76   Art a la Carte : Art in Math

The lessons contained in this unit are very open-ended and adapt well to integration with math. Concepts such as symmetry, parallel lines, converging lines, tangents, geometric shapes, fractional parts and angles can all be [ see more ]

A-94   Art a la Carte : Basic Shape Shifters

This art unit is based upon the artistic premise that all artist's make use of some basic shapes when developing an image. Since most children enjoy cartooning, we will explore the shapes most commonly used by artists through [ see more ]

A-77   Art a la Carte : First Nations Art

This unit introduces the arts of First Nations peoples from the North American Continent, Asia, Egypt and Australia. The lessons can be easily integrated with Social Studies. These step-by-step, guided art lessons impart the [ see more ]

A-75   Art a la Carte : Nature's Beauty

Finally, an art unit that utilizes a method of presenting lessons which will allow even the most uncertain individual to have success with art. Each lesson details step-by-step directions involving easy to draw shapes such as [ see more ]

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A-21   Cartoons and Comics

This cartooning unit is designed specifically for teachers (and students) with little or no talent when it comes to drawing. The lessons follow a progression from simpler less original activities to more difficult and more [ see more ]

A-11   Optical Illusions and Loco Logos

Double your buying power with this two unit set! In the first unit, students explore the fascinating world of logos - in sports, on flags, on the food that gives them skin trouble. The second unit investigates the intriguing subject of optical illusions. [ see more ]

Social Studies

A-2   Advertising

From snap, crackle, pop to just do it! Every product manufactured needs to be sold. Your students will learn all about advertising techniques used by mom and pop shops to big business via television, radio, newspapers, magazines and market research. Understand [ see more ]

A-6   Project Geos

This is a typical Social Studies unit - with a twist. Instead of doing activities related to the usual countries like Mexico or Argentina, students invent their own countries for a brand new planet called Geos. Ideal for split grade classrooms, the stimulating [ see more ]

Music

A-215   Classical Music & Cool Composers

Did you know that when he was a child, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fainted whenever he heard a brass instrument? Did you know that Johann Sebastian Bach fathered twenty children? The interesting and intriguing world of classical music and its most famous composers [ see more ]

A-7   History of Rock and Roll

In this unit, students trace the development of Rock n' Roll, from African Tribal music through to the modern music styles of today. Due to the academic nature of the material, this unit can be taught with a great deal of [ see more ]

A-10   Music Video FX

In this unit, students explore in detail the exciting advertising medium of videos. Students learn what components make effective videos as well as examine the techniques used in making videos. This unit places an emphasis on critical thinking and valuing skills. [ see more ]

A-12   Musical Mania

This integrated Arts Education Unit involves your students in an exciting hands on experience. As they learn the history and elements of a musical, they will, through drama, writing and designing, venture into the making of a musical. These seven activities as [ see more ]

A-3   Rock Band Simulation

In this unit, students will simulate the creation of their own rock band. As well as creating the individual members of the band students will assume the roles of a marketing director, newspaper reporter and accountant. This unit places an emphasis on communication [ see more ]

A-8   Stereos and Stuff

In this unit, students discover the workings of Hi-Fidelity stereo equipment such as turntables (record players), cassette players, and compact discs. Students also look at the workings of AM and FM radio. Innovative assignments stress [ see more ]

Holidays

A-16   A Storybook Christmas

A Storybook Christmas is a theme based, complete Christmas concert. It has been designed to include every student in the school while dividing the work load equally among the [ see more ]

A-17   Best On The Box

Best On The Box is a theme based, complete Christmas concert. It has been designed to include every studing in the school, while dividing the work load equally among the staff through the component system. [ see more ]

A-23   Christmas Castaways

A complete multicultural Christmasconcert for students K-8. Christmas Castaways is a theme based, complete Christmas concert. It has been designed to include every student in the school while dividing the work load equally among the staff through the component [ see more ]

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A-72   Santa Surfs the Net

Santa Surfs the Net is a theme based, complete Christmas concert for students K-8. It has designed to include every student in the school while dividing the work load equally among the staff through the [ see more ]

A-177   Spacemen Visit Christmas

Spacemen Visit Christmas is a humourous and entertaining play that provides opportunity for every student in the school to participate. Each class contributes to the plot, making the story into a variety show that includes even the audience. Comedy, dancing, singing [ see more ]

A-18   The Magic of Christmas

MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS is a theme based, complete Christmas concert of 90 minute duration. It has been designed to include every student in the school while dividing the work load equally among the staff through the component system. Each staff member should become [ see more ]

Author Studies

A-98   Reading Comprehension Novel Studies - Gordon Korman

The high interest low vocabulary format of these novels is perfect for reluctant readers and is sure to keep students motivated to read. For the teacher, flexibility is the key, with students being assigned a series of five exciting and interesting titles provide [ see more ]

Novel Studies

A-226   Brian's Winter

This novel study is designed with flexibility for the teacher in mind. The first section, For The Teacher, contains useful information about the novel, suggested teaching strategies, possible pre-reading activities, post-reading activities and an answer key. The [ see more ]

A-39   Bunnicula

This novel study provides teachers with a highly structured format for teaching language arts as students develop a love for reading longer materials like novels. Various areas such as reading comprehension, vocabulary development, spelling, grammar, and [ see more ]

E-15   Code Red At The Supermall

Have you ever visited a shopping mall that has sharks and piranhas, a triple-loop rollercoaster, 22 waterslides, an Ice Palace, submarines, 828 stores and a major mystery to solve? Soon after Tom and Liz Austen arrive at the West Edmonton Mall, a bomber strikes [ see more ]

E-17   Cold Midnight in Vieux Quebec

The leaders of the world's superpowers have agreed to meet in Quebec City to put an end to chemical weapons but powerful forces will stop at nothing to prevent the agreement from being signed. From the first chilling page, Cold Midnight in Vieux Quebec is filled [ see more ]

E-33   Disneyland Hostage

On her own during a California holiday, Liz Austen is plunged into the middle of an international plot when a boy named Ramon disappears from his room at the Disneyland Hotel. Has Ramon been taken hostage? Before Liz can answer that question, her own safety is [ see more ]

E-29   Escape From Big Muddy

Former Death Machine biker Billy Bones grabs Liz Austen's arm and whispers: The password . . . is . . . NOEL. Remember it! Remember it? How could she forget?? That one word launches an unforgettable road trip across Saskatchewan aboard the Manana Banana and plunges [ see more ]

E-1   Murder On The Canadian

The agonizing sound of a woman's scream hurls Tom Austen into the middle of a murder plot on board the sleek passenger train The Canadian. Who is responsible for the death of lovely Catherine Saks? As Tom investigates the strange collection of travellers who share [ see more ]

A-33   My Teacher Is An Alien

This novel study provides teachers with a highly structured format for teaching language arts as students develop a love for reading longer materials like novels. Various areas such as reading comprehension, vocabolary development, spelling, grammar... [ see more ]

A-73   Owls in the Family

Owls in the Family, by Farley Mowat, is set on the shores of the South Saskatchewan River. It is a timeless story about two boys exploring their environment after a long prairie winter. The smell of the thawing wheat fields and the [ see more ]

E-11   Spirit In The Rainforest

The rainforest of British Columbia holds many secrets, but none stranger than those of Nearby Island. After hair raising events during a Pacific storm, Tom and Liz Austen seek answers among the island's looming trees. Alarmed by the ghostly shape of the hermit [ see more ]

E-23   St. Andrews Werewolf

When Liz Austen lands a role in a summer production of Annie in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, she learns that an upcoming vote on the town's future may ruin its charm and tradition. She also meets Emily, who desperately needs a good friend to help her discover her [ see more ]

A-31   Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

This novel set in Manhattan, features a boy and his younger brother who drives him crazy. The story is quite factual and the places are real which makes this a wonderful opportunity for students to learn about [ see more ]

E-5   The Case of The Golden Boy

An investigation into the kidnapping of his schoolmate leads young Tom Austen to the seedy Golden Boy Cafe and an unexpected encounter with a desperate criminal. After getting one step too close to the kidnappers, Tom is taken prisoner and needs all his wits to [ see more ]

E-27   The Ghost of Lunenburg Manor

A fire burning on the sea . . . icy fingers in the night . . . a dog that suddenly won't go near its master's bedroom . . . a host of strange characters with names like Black Dog, Henneyberry, and Roger Eliot-Stanton . . . These are the baffling ingredients of [ see more ]

E-13   The Green Gables Detectives

While visiting the famous farmhouse known as Green Gables, Liz Austen and her friends are swept up in baffling events that lead them from an ancient cemetery to a haunted church, and then to a heart stopping showdown in a deserted lighthouse as fog swirls across [ see more ]

E-19   The Ice Diamond Quest

Why is a mysterious yacht flashing a signal off the coast of Newfoundland on a cold November evening? Tom and Liz Austen, with their cousins Sarah and Duncan Joy, follow a difficult trail toward the truth. As they search, someone called Hawk and people known as [ see more ]

E-25   The Inuk Mountain Adventure

What is the sinister conspiracy code named CanSell, and how does it threaten Canada? Is the nation's handsome Prime Minister really what he seems? The truth is on a micro cassette that Tom Austen must somehow find before a crucial vote by Canadians on the future [ see more ]

E-7   The Kootenay Kidnapper

What is the secret lurking in the ruins of a lonely ghost town in the mountains of British Columbia? Solving this mystery is only one of the challenges facing Tom Austen after he arrives in B.C. with this sidekick, Dietmar Oban, and learns that a young girl has [ see more ]

E-35   The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma

Tom Austen and his sister Liz shiver with excitement when they arrive at Casa Loma, a castle right in the heart of downtown Toronto one with a mystery to solve and a lost treasure to find. Sir Nigel Brampton, the millionaire owner of Casa Loma, has disappeared [ see more ]

Z-87   The Night They Stole the Stanley Cup

This novel, by Canadian author Roy MacGregor, is sure to be a success with students. The story involves a local hockey team as they follow a trail of intrigue and mischief. A student booklet provides a backbone for the novel study and insures student comprehension [ see more ]

E-21   The Prairie Dog Conspiracy

During a long, cold winter in his home town, young Tom Austen stumbles across some strange activity in an abandoned house. Through the snowy streets of Winnipeg, aboard the historic Prairie Dog Central and during a Ski-Doo chase beneath the Northern Lights, Tom [ see more ]

A-46   Underground to Canada

This timeless novel, by Canadian author Barbara Smucker, is sure to captivate student interest as they follow two teenage runaway slaves trying to reach freedom. The story is an excellent example of historical fiction intertwining [ see more ]

E-9   Vampires of Ottawa

Within the walls of a gloomy estate known as Blackwater, Liz Austen discovers the strange world of Baron Nicolai Zaba, a man who lives in constant fear. What is the secret of the ancient chapel's underground vault? Why are the words In Evil Memory scrawled on [ see more ]

E-3   Vancouver Nightmare

A chance meeting with a drug dealer named Spider takes Tom Austen into the grim streets of Vancouver's Skid Road, where he poses as a runaway while searching for information to help the police smash a gang that is hooking young kids on drugs. Suddenly unmasked [ see more ]

Canada

A-92   Canadian Governments and Elections

This unit takes the mundane and makes it marvelous. In three weeks, students learn more about government in Canada that the average parent picks up in a lifetime. An information based sections, with related assignments, builds a foundation for student knowledge. [ see more ]

A-166   Confederation: The Building Of A Nation

The Confederation of Canada was a series of events which brought our great country into being. The process of officially began on July 1, 1867, when the first of four colonies joined together to create the Dominion of Canada, and the process continues to this [ see more ]

A-170   New France

Explore Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, The Seven Years War, The Plains of Abraham and the Quebec Act. Discover how Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and the first settlers from France contributed to the development of North America. Our resource is an indepth [ see more ]

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