by STAO ADMIN | Jan 2, 2020
In a grade 9 academic classroom setting I made a few assumptions based on prior experience – 1) students generally are well adept at information retrieval and have had some exposure to science through the grade 7/8 curriculum and 2) all students are curious by...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 2, 2020
My journey in creating and developing a STEAM classroom started in 2012. The video posted was filmed at STAO2012. The demonstration was a simple task where we build a grape masher and have STAO participants try out the device, ask questions, and develop an activity...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 2, 2020
The objective for this project was to help students understand that classroom learning has to be linked to real-life problems in order to become meaningful. Students are learning the basic concepts related to science, technology, environment, and work collaboratively...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 2, 2020
In this series of tasks, students will complete the following: – In groups, brainstorm a list of various ‘clues’ in nature that scientists study to gather evidence for climate change and choose one to be a topic for research. – Individually...
by STAO ADMIN | Jan 2, 2020
Physical changes that involve liquids and aqueous solutions can be studied using a polystyrene calorimeter like the one shown in Figure 1. Such materials can be applied to practical thermochemical systems. For example, when athletes are injured, they may immediately...
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