by cbrookallred | Apr 23, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech
Written by Emerson Jones. What an innovative way to teach the human organ systems to your grade 5 students by utilizing the social media program Twitter. This activity is designed a Twitter Assignment and can be used as a Summative assessment. It is comprised of...
by msander | Apr 23, 2015 | Gr 1-3 Science & Tech, Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Teaching Strategies
Mini Institute for Elementary Teachers Workshop by the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation Date: Saturday April 25th, 2015 Venue: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON The Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation is pleased...
by cbrookallred | Apr 20, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science
Contributed by Catherine Little. Students often have a hard time accepting and believing that white light is a composition of many colours of light. In this activity, students construct a homemade colour wheel in order to blend the primary colours together and see...
by cbrookallred | Apr 20, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Teaching Strategies
Written by Marina Imperio This article outlines the deconstruction and reconstruction of a lesson, Building towards Bad Water. The selected lesson was revised to incorporate each of the 5 elements considered important to teaching and learning science – inquiry,...
by msander | Apr 16, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Physics
Why doesn’t magenta appear in the rainbow? The answer lies not in physics but in biology. Science presenter Steve Mould demonstrates the strange phenomenon of colour mixing, in which not everything is as it seems. The cone cells within our eyes are responsible...
by msander | Apr 13, 2015 | Gr 4-6 Science & Tech, Gr 7-8 Science & Tech, Gr 9-10 Science, Gr. 11-12 Chemistry
Alka-Seltzer added to spherical water drop in microgravity onboard the International Space Station. Get your students to predict the results of the experiment. They’ll be amazed....
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