by cbrookallred | Mar 24, 2017 | Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
Scientists announced on March 1, 2017 that they’ve identified the remains of 3,770-million-year-old microorganisms. , now the oldest known microfossils on Earth. The discovery is in the form of tiny filaments and tubes – formed by bacteria – that lived on iron. They...
by msander | Mar 24, 2017 | All Science Teachers
This is Canada’s largest science teachers’ conference. Three days of amazing teaching ideas, networking and the latest in products and resources. If you’ve never been, treat yourself!
by msander | Mar 23, 2017 | Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Beyond what we can touch, taste, smell, and hear, we experience the universe through light. But how did we come to discover light, and how did we learn light’s true nature, as the fastest thing in the universe, an electromagnetic spectrum, a wave and particle...
by msander | Mar 23, 2017 | All Science Teachers
The gender divide in science-technology-engineering-mathematics (STEM) fields continues to be a point of conversation and research. Within our secondary classrooms we still find a distinct enrollment divide in the number of girls who study physics as compared to boys,...
by cbrookallred | Mar 23, 2017 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Astronauts’ brains change shape during spaceflight, according to a study published in Nature Microgravity in December 2016. MRIs of the brains of 26 astronauts taken before and after missions show that their brains compress and expand in space. The longer the...
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