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What The COVID Vaccine Does To Your Body
https://youtu.be/the81FQoAUI This video provides an excellent yet simple summary of mRNA vaccines and how they work that even the STAO blog guy can understand. Stay well!!!!!!!!!!
Go CODE GIRL!!!!! – submitted by the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering
Open to ALL girls in grades 7-10 across Canada, Go CODE Girl programs are FREE annual events designed to introduce you to the wide range of career possibilities available in the rapidly-growing fields of technology, computing and software engineering. Join us for fun...
Mental Health Survey of Professional Workers
If you are an Accountant, Dentist, Midwife, Nurse, Physician, Professor or Teacher who is interested in issues related to mental health at work, we would like to invite you to participate in our Healthy Professional Worker study! We are exploring the mental health...
Gummy Bear Wave Machine Demo – Flinn Scientific Canada
Amplify your students’ understanding of wave motion with this captivating demonstration! Using simple materials, students can have significant influence on large-scale variables of frequency, amplitude and wave speed as they observe wave motion through a medium. Link...
Upcoming STAO Professional Learning Events
Great STAO webinars presented by classroom experts! Please note that you must be logged in as a STAO member prior to registering. Click on this link for the complete details
11+ Best Science Websites for Interactive Learning – submitted by Amy Gorecki
If you are looking for some great science websites for interactive learning, then these eleven plus sites should, at the very least, scratch and itch. Most of these are aimed at younger learners but some will be as, if not more, entertaining for adults. Thanks for...
Girls E-Mentorship (GEM) Leadership Program – submitted by Leila Knetsch
By providing young women with one-on-one mentorship, skill-building, enrichment opportunities, scholarships, and internships, GEM offers a transformative experience that empowers success long after high school graduation. Click on this link to learn more Thanks for...
Free Professional Development Event for Educators Features Noted Canadian Innovator James McEwen
Click here for the complete poster to this event The National Inventors Hall of Fame, Inc. (Canada) and the Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario (L’Association des professeurs de sciences de l’Ontario) invite elementary school teachers to join an invention...
Consultation: apprenticeship and skilled trades in Ontario – submitted by the Government of Ontario
We have launched our skills survey and want to hear from you! The apprenticeship and skilled trades in Ontario survey is available on-line until February 26, 2021 and should take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Please click to access the survey...
Tutoring Blog – submitted by Gerrie Storr
To all of you, my heart goes out to you as you struggle with the challenges of this way of learning that none of us anticipated. I'm reading the frustrations from all sectors on Twitter. Here's my two-cents worth. We're all in this together. Every single teacher I...
COVID-19 Precautions for the Science Classroom – compiled by STAO/APSO
Hands-on activities are integral to science education. Continuing to provide these valuable learning experiences in these uncertain times poses several unique challenges and obstacles that the safety-minded science teacher must overcome. The following documents,...
Rosalind Franklin: DNA’s unsung hero – TED-Ed
https://youtu.be/BIP0lYrdirI The discovery of the structure of DNA was one of the most important scientific achievements in human history. The now-famous double helix is almost synonymous with Watson and Crick, two of the scientists who won the Nobel prize for...