SCIENCE ENCOUNTERS

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...

HOW TO SURVIVE A NATURAL DISASTER (GRADE 7)

In this inquiry-based exploration, students will learn about stability through hands-on activities, media content, case study and a final project. The overall purpose is to have students gain a deeper understanding on what makes a structure (natural or human-designed)...

MAKING ICE CREAM INQUIRY (SNC1P)

In this inquiry, students will be shown how to make ice cream. They will, using scaffolded handouts from Smarter Science Canada, select one variable to modify to increase the amount of heat transfer that happens between the cream and the ice/salt mixture. They will...
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