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Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Pre-activity description: To introduce students to the concept of heat transfer we will test how quickly temperature of hot water cools off using different cups. By doing this, students can see how heat transfers from the liquid to the cup and to the air. Main... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Author: Muna Muasher-Marji, Don Galbraith Award winner, University of Ontario Institute of Technology This activity requires students to use the Makey Makey kit (Makey Makey 2018), Play Doh, and a computer with internet access to design a simple closed DC circuit by... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Author: Taylor McCabe, Don Galbraith Award winner, University of Ottawa The goal of this activity is for students to engage in course material by working in small groups to come up with questions that might appear on a test and practice answering questions created by... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Friction is the name of the game! This package is an inquiry based activity that can be used for students to do either independently, in pairs, or even as an entire class. It addresses the grade 3 science curriculum, specifically the strand Understanding Matter and... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This resource includes a reflection on differentiated science instruction in the full-day kindergarten classroom and an accompanying lesson plan to help students develop an understanding of what it means to be a steward of the Earth by caring for it and being... read moreCategories: General Interest
One of Sauvé’s (2005) practical and theoretical currents in environmental education called the ‘Naturalist Current’, which focuses on the “intrinsic value of nature,” (p. 13) spoke to me as a science and environmental educator. Since I minored in philosophy and took... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
The focus of this lesson plan is to allow the students to discover the effects of the centripetal force through an inquiry based activity. The students will experiment with different factors that affect centripetal motion and partially derive a formula for centripetal... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
In this activity, grade 6 students will explore physical adaptations/ adaptive traits by looking at bird beaks. Students will be tasked to determine how and why bird beaks are shaped based on the food birds will eat. Using a variety of tools to represent each beak,... read moreCategories: General Interest
Author: Andrea Waine, Don Galbraith Award winner, Nippissing University Throughout the Understanding Earth and Space Systems unit in grade 1, students begin investigating daily and seasonal changes. The big ideas covered in this unit are that changes occur in daily... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Author: Alicia Brand, Don Galbraith Award winner, Laurentian University This activity engages the students in the creation of designing and constructing a garden, planting and growing different types of plants and tracking and collecting measurement data of the plants... read more