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Categories: Lab/Student Activity
In December 2020, STAO hosted a one hour workshop where participants worked together to make their own Digital Escape Rooms. To create your own digital escape room, you will need a topic you want to test, a google account, and a thinglink.com free educator account.... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity
Now more than ever, teachers must create opportunities for students to develop awareness, build community, and seek solutions for a greener earth. One way to achieve this is to connect scientific innovation with community engagement. This website provides teachers... read moreCategories: Unit Plan
Teaching sustainability in a general science classroom can be intimidating with limited experience or lack of guidance. This unit plan was created to assist educators in providing both academic and hands-on ecological lessons. I have been fortunate enough to have... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
By exploring various substances and their effects on ice, through a structured inquiry approach, students will begin to understand matter and energy, and more specifically that liquid and solids have specific properties and interact in different ways. To access this... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
Students will learn how matter can go through a physical change by changing from one state to another. They will learn this change is reversible and involves the release or absorption of heat. Students will also be able to identify the correct scientific names of... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this lesson the kindergarten students will be reading the story called Magnetic Max written by Monica Lozano Hughes. This story is about a boy named Magnetic Max and his friend Nick1. Both children have a fun time exploring magnetism by testing out which objects... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this activity, students will identify biotic and abiotic elements they find in various ecosystems. They will also investigate how organisms and elements interact with each other and use an Indigenous lens to investigate, evaluate, and ask questions. Finally,... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this learning activity students investigate the impacts of human actions on the quality of air and water and the ways in which the quality of air and water has an impact on living things, as well as the idea that living things need air and water to survive. To do... read moreCategories: General Interest
As researchers move to study large-scale trends in nature (e.g. observing migration patterns, monitoring invasive species, surveying climate change), the amount of data required is often beyond the capabilities of a single research team (Bonney et al., 2009). One way... read moreCategories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students will learn to distinguish characteristics of animals within the Animal Kingdom, how to classify chordates into different Classes of Animalia, how to use and apply a dichotomous key properly, and specific vocabulary relating to animal... read more