by STAO ADMIN | Jan 7, 2020
The STAO Science Encounters Project includes a series of inquiry-based STEM activities to support teachers and students with resources to create engaging classroom experiences that cultivate 21st century skills. Activities for the project include Indigenous ways of...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 7, 2020
Students will understand the basic needs and characteristics of plants, animals and humans. They will discover that we all need food, water, shelter and space. They will show care and respect for all living things during and after outdoor site investigations. They...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 7, 2020
The students and teacher will go on a walk through the schoolyard/neighbourhood doing a litter collection/clean-up. They will use the items collected to begin a discussion about objects, the different materials that they are made of, and why they are made of those...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 7, 2020
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 the starting point of an inquiry into different forms of energy, how...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 7, 2020
The students and teacher will go for walks around the community in different months looking at how habitats change in each season and the response of the animals that live there. Discussions will include how people and animals adapt to the changes around them....
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