There’s a growing volume of debris in orbit around the earth, commonly called space junk, that ranges from old spacecraft down to tiny flecks of paint. Canada plays a role in scanning the sky for this junk, which can cause serious damage in the event of an impact.
Source: Canada’s role in tracking space junk
Never miss a resource
The Science Teachers Association of Ontario adds new resources, blog posts, videos and more on a regular basis.
Categories: Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology
Teachers, Our Incredible World (www.incredibleworld.ca) offers multimedia curriculum resources for the Science & Technology strand suitable for grades 4 to 11. All video series, lesson plans,... read more
Categories: Gr 4-6 Science & Tech
Contributed by: Cory Telfer ...an activity that’ll keep coming back to you Big Idea: Structures and mechanisms throughout our environment have forces that act on and within them Grade 5:... read more
Categories: Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Take a moment this Friday, July 27th and look up at the sky toward the longest lunar eclipse of this century, a magical deep red blood moon. Unfortunately, the eclipse is not visible in North... read more
Session expired
Please log in again. The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page.
This is an excellent video to use in your grade 9 space unit.