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Your lifestyle is making blue box recycling unsustainable | CBC News
Do you read your news online? Enjoy takeout? Live in an apartment building? Canadians’ changing lifestyles have transformed what we put in the blue bin. And that’s led to big challenges — and ballooning costs — for municipal recycling programs. Source: Your lifestyle...
STAONews March 27
Why present at STAO2018? Here’s what presenters at last year’s conference had to say: A nice way to connect with other teachers in a professional capacity and experience a different aspect of your teaching career A nice addition to your resume A great collaboration...
How To Get Into Inquiry-Based Learning: Part 4 – 4 Student Inquiry Skills to Nurture and Assess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDGcqeVwKS8 Incorporate Inquiry-Based Learning into your Classroom. Start with this short four part video series. (Version française: https://goo.gl/fkRRea) PART 1 – First Steps to Inquiry (https://youtu.be/N9cK_eto3HE) Prepare yourself...
Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times bigger than previously estimated, study finds
A new study suggests that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an area spanning 1.6 million square kilometres, contains more than 79,000 tonnes of floating plastic — 16 times more than previous estimates. Source: Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times bigger than...
Cartesian Diver Design Challenge – Flinn Scientific Canada
Introduction Cartesian divers are great toys that can be used to teach important science concepts. Several variations of Cartesian divers are on the market. Imagine that you and your classmates are members of a research and development team at a toy company and are...
MIT Physics: Exploding Wire and Resistivity
https://youtu.be/PFf8FcWyZco When Natalia flips a switch, a huge explosion happens - watch and learn as she shows and explains why. Find us online! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MITK12Videos http://k12videos.mit.edu made with...
Autumn Peltier, 13-year-old water advocate, addresses UN
https://youtu.be/zg60sr38oic Autumn Peltier, a 13-year-old Anishinaabe girl from Wikwemikong First Nation, addresses world leaders at the United Nations about protecting water. To read more: http://cbc.ca/
Inquiry_Based Learning in the Science Classroom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbqPaKTsDIU Beginning with a central question and driven by curiosity and personal passions, science students at Casey Middle seek answers through research, experimentation, and data analysis. Casey Middle School GRADES 6-8 | BOULDER,...
What you should know about high-alcohol, high-sugar drinks and caffeinated energy drinks – Globe and Mail
It’s important for kids and parents to know the risks associated with sweet alcoholic beverages and mixing alcohol with caffeine Source: What you should know about high-alcohol, high-sugar drinks and caffeinated energy drinks
I Notice, I Wonder – LEARN Strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPtelrwiVjM&t=6s The K20 Center examines I Notice, I Wonder, an instructional strategy that helps students create good questions from the information at hand by writing down what they notice and what they wonder about a new topic....
How Tattoos Really Work… At Least in Mice
https://youtu.be/6I9tenSb-Zg People have been getting tattoos for thousands of years, but we've never quite been sure why the ink sticks around under our skin. A group of researchers now think they might have the answer. Plus, scientists are on the road to making...
Visualizing video at the speed of light — one trillion frames per second
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk&t=29s MIT Media Lab researchers have created a new imaging system that can acquire visual data at a rate of one trillion frames per second. That's fast enough to produce a slow-motion video of light traveling through...