by msander | Nov 30, 2017 | Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
If you’ve ever tapped a screen to send a tweet, opted for the bottled soda because it tastes better, or drooled over art glass in a gallery, then your life has been changed for the better by the transparent yet durable combination of sand and simple chemicals we call...
by msander | Nov 30, 2017 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
Over the past 20 years, dinosaurs of all types and sizes have been found with some sort of fluff or even full-on plumage. These fuzzy discoveries have raised a whole batch of new questions so we’re here to tell you everything we know about dinosaurs and...
by msander | Nov 30, 2017 | Gr. 11-12 Biology
All year long, researchers at hospitals around the world collect samples from flu patients and send them to top virology experts with one goal: to design the vaccine for the next flu season. But why do we need a new one every year? Vaccines for diseases like mumps and...
by msander | Nov 29, 2017 | All Science Teachers
High school students can win cash prizes and provincial and national recognition through the 2017-18 It’s Your Job Video Contest! The Ministry of Labour has once again launched the It’s Your Job student video contest. It’s Your Job challenges Ontario’s secondary...
by msander | Nov 27, 2017 | Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
There’s a lot of pretty chemistry in the reaction of aluminum wire with copper(II) chloride! Burnished copper crystals grow on the wire surface, and the blue color of copper(II) ions slowly fades. What relationships govern the relative amounts of aluminum and copper...
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