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Online Learning Resources From Boreal Science
Boreal Science has partnered with several suppliers to bring you some great FREE resources as well as FREE digital trials of software and applications. See recommended links below. Please pass the link along to all science teachers that may be looking for resources...
Flinn at Home Online Resources
Flinn Scientific is offering online learning resources. Check out what's available at this link
Tools and Strategies for Online Learning from Perimeter Institute
Check out some of the free online professional development workshops for STEM educators at this link
ChemEd XChange – submitted by Dave Gervais
ChemEd XChange is an interactive website created for high school and college teachers and is managed by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Teachers can share their classroom experiences, lab activities, and presentation materials specific to chemistry. An ACS...
Cause Tutoring
Case Tutoring is partnering with the University of Toronto to set up the COVID-19 Online Support Initiative. CAUSE Tutoring will hold free online "office hours" via Zoom for high school students in Grade 11/12 Science & Math courses from around the country, where...
Upcoming STAO Webinars
Hello everyone, I hope that you are keeping well and that you are able to find some bright spots in these challenging times. I would love if you could share what is helping you get through by tagging us (@staoapso) on one of our social media platforms! If you...
Demonstration of how the corona virus spreads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9FGrmYUr5c&feature=youtu.be While we’re stuck in self-quarantine, we thought we’d try and visualize how the novel coronavirus spreads through a controlled environment like an apartment. Here’s how transmission happens, and what you...
This Is Why … auroras are only found at the poles by Joanne O’Meara
If you’ve ever had the pleasure of seeing the northern lights in person, you know that words do not do them justice. The auroras (aurora borealis in the north, aurora australis in the south) are beautiful and haunting, moving across the night sky as ethereal light....
Solar System 101 | National Geographic
https://youtu.be/libKVRa01L8 How many planets are in the solar system? How did it form in the Milky Way galaxy? Learn facts about the solar system’s genesis, plus its planets, moons, and asteroids.
Upcoming Science Webinars For Teachers
Dear STAO/APSO Members,We know that COVID-19 has created a great deal of uncertainty for many. We also know that educators specifically are facing uncertainty around what the next two weeks, and possibly beyond, will look like for them and their classrooms.In light of...
What’s to Do When School Is Out? – submitted by Dave Gervais
On the first day that my two grandchildren (5 and 10 yrs. old) arrived, we went for a nature walk. Equipped with a capture jar, we found a caterpillar egg case (forest tent caterpillars), many Woolly Bear caterpillars and several cocoons from unknown insect species....
At Home Science Resources From Flinn
Flinn Scientific has launched a website with an extensive amount of resources specifically developed to help teachers, students and parents continue their science education journey – even if that learning is taking place outside the classroom or laboratory...