This year-long French Immersion project incorporates all of the grade 8 science units and allows students to make connections across the curriculum. Throughout the year, students focused on water consumption, coding, fluids, water quality, creating marble mazes with grade 3 Science Buddies, and creating Rube Goldberg machines with grade 9 and 10 students in preparation for entering high school.
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AstroNuts brings the wonder of space to kids on Earth
Categories: General Interest
The “AstroNuts kids space club” was created in May 2010 by my 11 year-old-son Brett and I. By the age of 5, Brett was a “systems kid,” always building light and water systems in and around... read more
Teacher Demo/Student Activity: Finding the electron
Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Teacher Demonstration
Prior to Thomson’s work it was thought that the atoms of each element were unique, invisible particles, or that atoms were made of subatomic particles that had significant mass compared to the atom... read more
Ener-GEE!
Categories: Lab/Student Activity, Lesson Plan
The students and teacher will go for a walk in the schoolyard or community, looking for different forms of energy (sun, wind, gas, electrical, food). This will be a shared experience that will become... read more