Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum Teaching Resources (K–12)
Complete physics units for Newfoundland and Labrador classrooms, written to the concepts the provincial curriculum guides describe, with four levels of every worksheet, an editable deck, full marking keys and a lesson plan you can teach from on Monday.
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Units for Newfoundland and Labrador classrooms
Begin with the escape room at $12.99, move into optics and electromagnetism for the senior grades, use the measurement unit with Grade 5 to 7 classes, then take the fifteen-unit curriculum.
Physics Escape Room – Lever Law & Pulley Systems
Light, Refraction & Lenses | Reflection, Snell's Law & Image Formation | Physics Unit | Grades 8–11
Magnetism & Electromagnetic Induction | Generators & Transformers | Physics Unit | Grades 9–11
Measurement, Data Analysis & Scientific Inquiry | Physics Unit | Grades 5–7
Physics Complete Curriculum Bundle | 15 Ready-to-Teach Units | Grades 5–12
Why teachers here use these
Why teachers in this province use these
Newfoundland and Labrador teaches from its own curriculum guides, built on the Atlantic Canada Framework for Essential Graduation Learnings, and that framework asks for something a worksheet pack rarely delivers. Communication, Problem Solving and Technological Competence are meant to run through every subject rather than live in one course, so a science lesson is expected to produce writing and reasoning alongside content. The current review adds pressure of its own: the province has been reconsidering required instructional hours for some Grade 7 to 9 courses through 2025–26, and a course that loses hours loses material with them. Somebody has to decide what goes, and it is the teacher holding the timetable. A unit that arrives as five sequenced lessons with timings makes that decision visible rather than improvised — you can see on paper what a shortened course keeps and what it drops. The four levels of each worksheet, the marking keys and the editable deck mean the trimming happens to the plan instead of to your evenings.
A sequence you can run
From outcome to evidence in five lessons
Each unit is organized backwards from what students should be able to do at the end, so the last lesson produces work you can mark against an outcome rather than a vague impression.
- State the outcome in plain languageThe first slide says what students will be able to do by the end of the unit, in words a Grade 8 class understands. Knowing the destination changes how they treat practice.
- Work one clean example togetherYou model the whole method once — a ray diagram, an induced current, a set of measurements — with every step shown, including the ones experienced teachers tend to do silently.
- Remove the support graduallyThe tiered sheets take away scaffolding a piece at a time. A student finishing tier two has done the same physics as one finishing tier four, with more of the structure supplied.
- Move to a second contextA new situation tests whether the method travelled or whether the class learned one example by heart. Ten minutes of discussion here usually saves a lesson of reteaching later.
- Mark against the outcomeThe closing written task is built to be marked against the outcome you named on day one, which makes the mark defensible when a parent or an administrator asks how you arrived at it.
What's covered
What a download includes
Each unit is a full teaching package, sized for real periods, and every part of it opens in the software already installed on a school laptop.
- Worksheets at four levels
- Editable slide deck
- Marking keys for every task
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital versions
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
Two situations these were built for
Cross-curricular learnings such as Communication and Problem Solving are only visible in what students produce, which puts weight on the written task at the end of a unit. That is where four levels earn their place. A student who reads two years below the class still writes a paragraph about refraction, prompted more heavily and asked for less text, while the strongest writer in the room answers the same question at length. Both pieces go in the folder, both can be marked against the same outcome, and neither student spent the lesson copying from a neighbour. When a course is short of hours, that folder is often the clearest record you have of what was actually covered.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these connected to the provincial curriculum?
They are independent teaching resources. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Newfoundland and Labrador's Department of Education. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills the provincial curriculum guides describe for its subject and grade range, which is not the same as an official alignment and we do not claim otherwise. Open the preview, hold it beside the guide you teach from, and decide for yourself whether the fit saves you work.
How do these sit with the Essential Graduation Learnings?
The province's curriculum guides carry the Atlantic Canada Framework for Essential Graduation Learnings, seven cross-curricular learnings including Communication, Problem Solving and Technological Competence. These units are ordinary subject teaching, but the written explanations, the data work and the structured tasks give you material that speaks to those learnings inside a science course. We make no claim about outcomes or results; what you get is student work that can be discussed in those terms.
How much preparation does a finished unit remove?
It removes the building, not the teaching. Writing four levels of a worksheet, a deck, the keys and a timing plan for one topic is a weekend's work, and more if the topic is new to you. What stays with you is everything that depends on knowing your class: choosing which tier each table gets, cutting questions that will not land, and the marking.
What can I look at before paying?
Every product page has a preview showing sample worksheet pages, part of the deck and the lesson plan, along with the grade range and the topic list. Check three things in particular: the reading level against your own class, whether the notation and units match what your students already use, and whether the topics line up with the section of your curriculum guide you are planning to cover.
They are downloads — what happens if a purchase is wrong for me?
Digital files cannot be sent back the way a textbook can, so please see the store's refund policy for the terms that apply; we do not set out conditions of our own on this page. Practically, the preview is the protection — it exists so you can judge the level and the coverage before buying. If a file will not open or the wrong download arrives, contact the store directly and it will be sorted out.
Our Grade 7 to 9 course hours may be cut. Is a five-lesson unit still realistic?
Yes, because the lessons are not welded together. Each one has its own plan and timings, so a course with fewer hours can run the opening lesson, one tier of practice and the written task, leaving the extension work optional. The unit also tells you what you give up by dropping a lesson, which beats reaching the end of a shortened term and finding the gap.
A full physics program in one file
The complete physics bundle gathers fifteen ready-to-teach units for Grades 5 to 12 in a single download at $129.99.
See the complete bundle →