Hands-On Science and Technology: An Inquiry Approach is filled with a year’s worth of classroom-tested activity-based lesson plans. The grade 1 book is divided into four units based on the current Ontario curriculum for science and technology.

• Needs and Characteristics of Living Things
• Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures
• Energy in Our Lives
• Understanding Earth and Space Systems

This new edition includes many familiar great features for both teachers and students: curriculum correlation charts; background information on the science and technology topics; complete, easy-to-follow lesson plans; reproducible student materials; materials lists; and hands-on, student-centred activities. Useful new features include:

• the components of an inquiry-based scientific and technological approach
• Indigenous knowledge and perspective embedded in lesson plans
• a four-part instructional process—activate, action, consolidate and debrief, and enhance
• an emphasis on technology, sustainability, and differentiated instruction
• a fully developed assessment plan that includes opportunities for assessment for, as, and of learning
• a focus on real-life technological problem solving
• learning centres that focus on multiple intelligences and universal design for learning (UDL)
• land-based learning activities
• a bank of science related images