Teacher's Corner

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Powerpoint Lessons

The following lessons are prepared in Microsoft PowerPoint format, correlated to each section of the BC Science 10 textbook. The files are meant as "talking points" to guide a lesson or lessons. The files are fully editable for you to customize if you wish.

To download PowerPoints from a particular section, please use the pull-down menu below.

Practice Provincial Exams

NELSON is pleased to provide teachers with 3 practice exams aimed at helping your students prepare for the Provincial Exam. Download the exams by using the pull-down menu below. The answers to each exam are found at the end of the document.

Provincial Exam Study Guide

NELSON is pleased to provide users of the BC Science 10 program a Provincial Exam Study Guide. Download the units of the Study Guide by using the pull-down menu below. The answers to each unit's Study Guide are found at the end of the document.

Teacher Resource Files

The BC Science 10 Teacher Resource (TR) is complete and ready for download. The TR has been divided into easily manageable files, please use the pull-down menus below to select the file(s) you wish to download. The files are provided in Adobe Acrobat format.

Note that the groups of files can be downloaded all at once in a .zip archive if you wish. You will require decompression software on your computer to extract the files from the archive (if you do not have this, consider downloading the files one-by-one).

Please note that the TRM and BLM files are protected by Canadian Copyright and are meant for TEACHER CLASSROOM USE ONLY.

DO NOT post these files to any other Internet server or location - doing so is a violation of Canadian Copyright Laws, and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Errata and Advice

The first printing of the BC Science 10 text contains a few errors that will be corrected upon second printing. Please use the following pull-down menu to access errata files, and revision/advice files from the BC Science 10 author team.

Corrected Computer Assessment Bank (CAB) files

The Science 10 Computer Assessment Bank (CAB) has some minor errors that have been corrected - we apologize for any inconvenience. Please download files from the drop-down menu below - when you have downloaded and expanded the archives, replace the relevant files in your CAB installation:

Professional Development

Course Materials and Vendor Correlations

Spectrum Material Correlation - this materials list corresponds to the Spectrum Secondary Science 2008 Catalog.