Province: Ontario

Curriculum

Grade 6: Electricity and Electrical Devices
Grade 6: Language - reading, writing, oral communication, media literacy
Grade 6: The Arts - visual arts
Grade 6: Mathematics - data management and probability, number sense and numeration, measurement

Teachers Notes

The Our Solar Future (OSF) lessons are connected directly to the Ontario curriculum. The integrated nature of their design allows teachers to integrate language arts, mathematics, and visual arts with the science and technology electricity and electrical devices unit.

Through the rich performance tasks students can: 1. educate younger students about solar power; 2. design a solar village; or 3. create a solar business.

OSF contains three rich performance tasks based on solar electricity and ten "training activities" to prepare students to excel at the performance tasks.

The training activities include lessons on: circuitry; electricity generation; electricity consumption; how solar PV works; how to design a solar PV system; how much electricity solar PV systems can produce; and electricity budgeting, among others.All activities within the resource come with teacher notes. The training activities include lessons on: circuitry; electricity generation; electricity consumption; how solar PV works; how to design a solar PV system; how much electricity solar PV systems can produce; and electricity budgeting, among others.

OSF was created in collaboration with the Toronto District School Board but is available for use across the province.

Instructions for Students

Through the rich performance tasks students can: 1. educate younger students about solar power; 2. design a solar village; or 3. create a solar business.

Assessment/Evaluation

Evaluation Rubrics are included with each rich performance task (of which there are three)