Grade 9 teaching resources

This four-page guide introduces bus routes, stops, arrival and departure times, fares, and schedule reading.

Students explore the Victorian origins, modern traditions, and cultural significance of Boxing Day in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Students explore British Columbia’s tectonic setting through a hands-on stress-and-release simulation, real earthquake data, and guided questions.

This three-page worksheet introduces confirmation, selection, and framing bias in digital media.

This classroom resource introduces bat basics, nocturnal adaptations, life cycles, ecological roles, and common myths.

This three-page French worksheet introduces emotions connected to returning to school, including excited, happy, nervous, worried, sad, tired, surprised, and confused.

This student worksheet introduces the chemistry of baking, including ingredient functions, limiting reagents, and chemical reactions.

This six-page printable activity pack introduces the P.I.E.

This six-page science resource explains why leaves change color in fall, including the roles of chlorophyll, photosynthesis, carotenoids, and anthocyanins.

Students explore why leaves change color by learning about chlorophyll, carotenoids, anthocyanins, and seasonal senescence.

Students learn to identify whether spooky texts are written to persuade, inform, or entertain.

Students sort example statements into persuade, inform, and entertain categories, then create their own examples.

This Thanksgiving-themed activity pack helps students distinguish between persuade, inform, and entertain in holiday writing.

This five-page printable packet helps students identify whether an author's purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain.

This football-themed worksheet teaches students to identify whether an author’s purpose is to persuade, inform, or entertain.

Students explore informational and entertaining texts about apples, apple picking, and apple cider.

Students examine descriptions of archaeological artifacts, identify key details, and make evidence-based inferences about past societies.

Students learn how Arizona monsoons form, interpret precipitation charts, identify seasonal patterns, and compare rainfall across Arizona cities.

This three-page guide introduces the building blocks of an argument: claims, premises, and unstated assumptions.

This four-page science resource introduces dormancy, hibernation, torpor, and brumation using clear explanations, vocabulary, and examples.

This four-page worksheet introduces core anti-racism concepts, including racism, structural racism, bias, privilege, discrimination, and equity.

Students identify emotions, explore how feelings appear in their bodies and thoughts, and respond to realistic scenarios.

This four-page worksheet teaches students to identify and correct run-on sentences using periods, capitalization, commas with conjunctions, and semicolons.

Students explore Alberta’s water, forests, soil, and wildlife through practical conservation scenarios.

Students explore Alberta's Boreal Forest and Parkland regions through knowledge checks, comparisons, map activities, and questions about forest importance.

This four-page resource introduces renewable and non-renewable natural resources found in Alberta, including wheat, cattle, wind, timber, natural gas, oil, and coal.

This four-page lesson introduces how AI-generated images are created and teaches students to identify common visual artifacts.

Introduce students to artificial intelligence, machine learning from data, and pattern recognition through accessible explanations and everyday examples.

This four-page student worksheet introduces addiction as a brain disorder and explains dopamine, reward pathways, tolerance, and withdrawal.

Introduce students to acids, bases, neutral substances, and the pH scale using familiar cooking ingredients.

Students explore absolute value as distance from zero through winter-themed explanations, number lines, worked examples, and independent practice.

This three-page science worksheet introduces the pH scale and helps students classify household substances as acidic, basic, or neutral.

Help students distinguish lowercase b and d using memorable formation cues, visual explanations, and engaging letter mazes.

Students role-play as turkey advocates and complete an application using logical and emotional appeals to persuade the president.

Students act as travel agents to design realistic itineraries based on traveler interests, budgets, schedules, and constraints.

Engage students in a competitive Trashketball tournament featuring collaborative practice with multi-step equations and inequalities.

Students imagine being trapped inside a snow globe and use all five senses to develop vivid descriptive language.

Students explore why Alberta’s natural resources must be transported and compare pipelines with other transportation methods.

Teach students how transition words connect ideas and improve writing flow, clarity, and logical sequencing.

This five-page activity pack helps students reflect on upcoming school-year transitions, identify worries and excitement, and map supportive people and activities.

This four-page activity pack teaches students how Alberta’s natural resources become everyday products.

This four-page resource introduces regulatory, warning, and informational traffic signs through explanations, examples, self-assessment, and a sign-matching activity.

This four-page career exploration activity compares electrician apprenticeships with university electrical engineering programs.

Students read about the 10th Mountain Division’s training in New Hampshire’s White Mountains during World War II.

Students learn to define inflation and calculate percentage increases using historical and current grocery prices.

This four-page student resource introduces dopamine, neurotransmitters, the brain’s reward pathway, and the connection between rewards and everyday or digital habits.

Students explore why Earth can support life, focusing on the atmosphere, liquid water, and its distance from the Sun.

This six-page activity pack introduces students to Diwali, including its history, traditions, symbols, deities, and celebration practices.