This session provides an overview of how to recognize AI, how AI analyzes data to make predictions, and the limitations and ethical considerations of AI. The workshop includes examples that illustrate STEM concepts. You can deliver this workshop with your own students. Slides and slide notes will be provided to all participants after the session.
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Written by Brian Mapaye, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2025, Tyndale University In this engaging STEM-based lesson, students will work in teams to design and construct the tallest freestanding tower possible using limited materials: one piece of construction paper, 30... read moreCategories: Unit Plan
Written by Bernadette Boris, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2025, Tyndale University This “Simple Machines & How They Help Us” unit plan, designed for Grade 4/5 Science over four weeks, uses the Backwards Design model to teach students how simple machines reduce... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
Written by Anthony Pereira, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2025, York University This lesson plan is designed to educate students about the significant consequences of plastic pollution on aquatic and marine environments. It introduces the critical concept of... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan, Unit Plan
This document will provide three possible themes in which the curriculum for the Earth and Space Science strands – The Study of the Universe in the academic course and Space Exploration in the applied course – may be taught. Of the three pathways that have... read moreCategories: General Interest
This resource is written for elementary school teachers and administrators to provide guidance for the safe delivery of hands-on science and technology programs to students. The resource was originally writted to align closely with the elementary science and... read moreCategories: General Interest, Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
This resource has been developed by the Science Teachers’ Association of Ontario/L’Association des professeur de sciences de l’Ontario with funding and technical support from Ontario Teacher’s Federation/Fédération des enseignmentes et des... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Rocks and minerals are of great importance in the history of our Earth, although it unfortunately remains a concept that lacks lustre and enthusiasm for elementary students. Most students are able to comprehend the differences between rocks and minerals and how... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Written by Michelle Chin, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2024, OISE/UT In this 6 day lesson plan, students explore the properties of rocks and minerals. On Day 1, students reflect on the impact of rocks and minerals on their own lives and investigate the properties of... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
In this lesson and mini lab, students will learning how echolocation is used by animals like bats and dolphins, the purpose of echolocation, the principles behind echolocation in a variety of technology like ultrasound devices, SONAR (depth finders), or in devices for... read moreCategories: Lesson Plan
In this combined Grade 4/ 5 lesson, students will observe and understand how light is refracted through a medium of mass, such as water. Grade 4 students will leave the lesson with the knowledge and understanding as to why light refracts at various angles depending on... read more