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Understanding the Land Acknowledgement – video from York University
September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day. The day honours the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and...
Let’s Talk Careers: Canada’s Most Informed Schools and Students Competition is back with more cash prizes than ever!
Let's Talk Careers: Canada's Most Informed Schools and Students Competition is back with more cash prizes than ever! Skills/Compétences Canada, Let's Talk Science and ChatterHigh are teaming up again to offer your school and students the chance to win prizes while...
2021 Desjardins Tech Donation Program
Tech Donation Program Are you a teacher or principal of a K-12 public school with students in need of computers or other technological tools to heighten their in-school and distance learning success? Apply now to the Desjardins Tech Donation Program! What is the...
Career Connects resource – Medical Illustrator Ni-ka Ford
STAO is starting to gather names to put together a series of Career Connection video resources. Here is the first, submitted by Laura Wodlinger. This career video is about Medical Illustrator Ni-ka Ford. Please click on the link to watch this 10 min video: Medical...
Livestream Event: Traditional Indigenous Mathematics at the Science Centre!
Livestream Event at the Ontario Science Centre - submitted by Amy Gorecki What is traditional Indigenous mathematics? Find out from firekeeper, grass dancer, fisherman and Ojibwe language teacher Bryan Bellefeuille, a father of three and Anishinaabe of Nipissing First...
Weizmann Physics safe cracking competition – submitted by Amy Gorecki
Each year, Weizmann hosts the greatest safe-cracking competition known to high schoolers - The Annual International Physics Tournament. Juniors and seniors in high schools form teams and take on the challenge: Build a safe that only your team can open, and then try to...
Telling the Stories Behind the Science – submitted by Amy Gorecki
AGU’s newest journal, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, is a collection of memoirs, essays, and insights that present personal perspectives on how different scientific fields have evolved. This website looks to ensure that scientists of diverse backgrounds...
Invasive earthworms are remaking our forests, and climate scientists are worried -submitted by Kris Lee
Worms are radically changing our forests’ soils and depleting terrestrial carbon stocks Maya Lach-Aidelbaum · CBC News North America's forests have been largely earthworm-free since the last Ice Age. But as invaders arrive and burrow into the leaf litter, they change...
What Does An Atom REALLY Look Like?
https://youtu.be/EOHYT5q5lhQ From orbital mechanics to quantum mechanics, this video explains why we must accept a world of particles based on probabilities, statistics, and chance. Electrons, protons, and neutrons don't behave the same way that planets and billiard...
The genius of Mendeleev’s periodic table – Lou Serico
https://youtu.be/fPnwBITSmgU The elements had been listed and carefully arranged before Dmitri Mendeleev. They had even been organized by similar properties before. So why is Mendeelev's periodic table the one that has endured? Lou Serico explains via eka-aluminum, an...
Why Do Your Farts Smell Worse in the Shower?
https://youtu.be/B3zqFJDJf2Q If you've ever farted in the shower, you know that they smell REALLY bad in there, but why is that? Hosted by: Hank Green
Design an Ecosystem Poster Project – submitted by Michael Balzer
For this project you will be designing your own imaginary ecosystem, including the living and nonliving components. You may work by yourself or with a partner. No more than two people may work together on the project. You may either hand draw your poster or can...