by Milan Sanader | Mar 29, 2021 | All Science Teachers, Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech
Join STAO and Springbay Studio on Thursday, April 1st from 7:30-8:30pm for a workshop for grades 3-8 educators to learn about the program, League for a Green Future. The first 50 registered attendees who attend the webinar will receive a free license worth $399.99...
by Milan Sanader | Mar 24, 2021 | All Science Teachers, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
When the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, NASA hinted the spacecraft’s parachute had a hidden message. Enter 23-year-old Maxence Abela. The computer whiz and his father cracked the code. Eric Sorensen spoke to Abela to hear how they did it. For more info,...
by Milan Sanader | Mar 23, 2021 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr. 11-12 Biology, Uncategorized
About 93 million years ago, a bizarre, plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiously elongated, wing-like fins that made its body wider than it was long. Scientists on...
by Milan Sanader | Mar 9, 2021 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Welcome to science at home in this experiment we will be doing a gravity water drop. In this experiment we poke a hole in the side of the cup and test what happens when you hold a cup full of water against what happens when the cup is dropped. At the end of this...
by msander | Mar 4, 2021 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Introduction Hans Christian Oersted (1777–1851), a Danish physicist, was performing an experiment in 1820 when he noticed that whenever an electric current from a battery was switched on or off, a nearby compass needle was deflected. Through additional experiments,...
by Milan Sanader | Feb 24, 2021 | All Science Teachers, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Biology, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
Meat has a big carbon footprint, with livestock responsible for about 15 per cent of worldwide emissions, as we’ve previously discussed in this newsletter. That’s prompted experts to recommend eating less meat for sustainability (and health) reasons. Click...
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