Science
Support Documents
Science and Safety: A Kindergarten to Grade 12 Resource Manual for Teachers, Schools, and School Divisions
Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning is pleased to present the document Science and Safety: A Kindergarten to Grade 12 Resource Manual for Teachers, Schools, and School Divisions. This document provides important updates and is a current, comprehensive guide to safety in the science classroom. It can serve to act as a complement to the 1997 Science Safety support document currently in wide use among Manitoba science educators.
The principal goal of this K-12 science and safety resource is to bring together in one place information often needed by science teachers, administrators, school support staff and division planners to assist in making clear, sound decisions on matters related to safety in the science classroom or laboratory environment. Science and Safety supports planning and appropriate actions through the provision of Manitoba and federal-level safety legislation and standards, a review of common safety hazards, and procedures for minimizing or eliminating altogether hazards that are a natural part of the delivery of authentic and meaningful science learning experiences.
Science and Safety includes sections on:
- Starting Points for Planning and Policy Setting
- Implementing Safety in the Science Classroom or Laboratory
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Facility Design and Safety Equipment
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS)
- Biological Hazards
- Physical Hazards
- Chemical Hazards
- Chemical Management
Severe Weather Poster Series Online Teacher's Guide
Manitoba Education has acted on the recommendation from the Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization (EMO) and has developed the Fall/Winter (
968 KB) and Spring/Summer ( 968 KB) Severe Weather Awareness in Manitoba Teacher's Guides to accompany the posters for teachers and students that were distributed in Spring 2010. These Teacher’s Guides are intended as supports in utilizing the posters in your science classroom to address specific learning outcomes identified in the weather unit of the Manitoba Grade 5 Science curriculum and the general weather awareness strategies encouraged by EMO. The Teacher’s Guides include background information on a variety of seasonal Manitoba severe weather phenomena, teaching and learning experiences aligned with Manitoba’s Grade 5 curricula, as well as links to an abundance of online resources.
Health and Physics: A Grade 12 Manitoba Resource for Health and Radiation Physics
Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning, in partnership with the Manitoba Division of the Canadian Cancer Society, is pleased to present the Student Resource and Teacher Guide to “HEALTH and PHYSICS: A Grade 12 Manitoba Resource for Health and Radiation Physics”. These curriculum-aligned resources for senior physics were conceived in order to support a unique, contextual unit in Manitoba science curriculum in the area of health and radiation physics.
Refuse, Refuse, Ri-fyooz Ref-yoos: A Guide to Waste Reduction in Manitoba Schools
The document A Guide to Waste Reduction in Manitoba Schools was created in order to foster discussions about what you can do in your school division to reduce waste. This guide not only gives direction, but also encourages discussion about the steps taken at Landmark Elementary School (LES) and the resulting 50% Challenge for Waste Reduction undertaken at Hanover School Division (HSD). The guide describes how the actions of students in one school brought about change in an entire school division. It is both a “how-to” and a “why-to” guide since many questions about waste reduction must be addressed in order to make a school-wide or division-wide initiative a success.
Lake Winnipeg: A Resource for Grade 12 Interdisciplinary Topics in Science (40S)
The document Lake Winnipeg: A Resource for Grade 12 Interdisciplinary Topics in Science (40S) is a resource for teaching Grade 12 Interdisciplinary Topics in Science (40S). It is designed to provide information to expose Manitoba students to the complexity of issues associated with Lake Winnipeg, and, through science investigations and problem-based approaches to learning, to encourage students to develop decision-making skills associated with the ecological and social dynamics of the Lake Winnipeg environment.
Life is a Gift: A Manitoba Grade 11 Biology Resource for Organ Donation and Transplantation
An online version of this resource for teachers is also available at the Transplant Manitoba – Gift of Life Program website.
Manitoba Education in partnership and collaboration with the Transplant Manitoba – Gift of Life Program and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority is pleased to provide this learning resource to support Senior Years biology teachers and their students as they examine current issues and the human biology associated with organ donation and transplantation. This resource Life is a Gift: A Grade 11 Manitoba Biology Resource for Organ Donation and Transplantation is intended to be used where appropriate contexts occur in addressing the specific learning outcomes of the Manitoba Grade 11 Biology curriculum. Science educators in other Canadian jurisdictions may also find the contents of this resource a benefit in their teaching.
Health and Physics DVD
Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning, in partnership with the Manitoba Division of the Canadian Cancer Society and St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre, is pleased to present Health and Physics DVD. This curriculum-aligned resource supports “Health and Physics: A Grade 12 Manitoba Resource for Health and Radiation Physics”. The DVD is made up of six vignettes showing how different diagnostic equipment is used. These six vignettes may be viewed and/or downloaded from this website and complete DVDs will be available through Manitoba Education and Training.
Science Safety: A Kindergarten to Senior 4 Resource Manual for Teachers, Schools, and School Divisions (1997) - released in April 1997. The 2014 update to this document provides an important complement to this earlier resource.
Senior Years Science Teachers' Handbook: A Teaching Resource (1997) - released in November 1997. This handbook was produced to support Grades 7/8 and Senior Years science teachers as they bridge the gap between traditional and new approaches to the teaching of science. It is meant as a starting point for the development of alternative perspectives and strategies.
