Workshops
Our Custom Workshops
We offer the following hands-on, minds-on workshops that can be delivered in classrooms and community settings. Workshop length varies from 1 hour to 90 minutes.
Our outreach site has received a high volume of visit requests from our educator partners this year (2023-2024). Thank you so much for your support! To ensure we can fulfill the requests we have received up to this point, we have closed our request form for the year. We will open it again for the 2024-2025 school year in late summer.
| Workshop Name | Description | Grade |
|---|---|---|
Bounce and Roll |
Explore energy, forces, friction, motion, and the properties of materials. Includes songs/rhymes, a story book, and tie-ins to math and literacy. | K |
| Why Live Here? |
Explore the needs of living things (ie: food, shelter, safety). Includes songs/rhymes, a story book, and tie-ins to math and literacy. | K |
| Balancing Act |
Students conduct investigations to learn about gravity, centre of gravity, and balance. | K to 2 |
| Budding Biologists |
This kit will demonstrate to the students the five basic needs of living things. The hands-on activities will clarify the various forms and functions of insects and birds, as well as discuss their habitats. | K to 3 |
| Dynamic Dinos |
Students explore the form and function of different dinosaur body parts using models and reconstructions. | K to 1 |
| Feast for the Senses |
Students participate in interactive, sensory activities that help them understand how animals use their senses to locate food. | K to 1 |
| Seasons |
Students discover the characteristics and reasons behind the 4 seasons of the year. | K to 1 |
| Magnet Madness |
Students experiment with magnets to discover their unique properties of attraction, repulsion, and polarity. | 2 |
| Matter Matters |
Students explore the properties and interactions of solid and liquid materials through demonstrations and hands-on activities. | 2 |
| Pollination and Native Plants |
Students will explore the importance of interactions among animals and plants within natural environments, with emphasis on plants native to Windsor-Essex County. It will also broaden their knowledge about interactions between humans and nature, including how we can minimize the negative impacts human actions can have on natural processes. | 2 to 3 |
| Playful Machines |
Students investigate simple machines by using levers, wheels and axles, and inclined planes to create a model playground. | 2 to 4 |
The Bone Zone |
Students will discover how our skeletal system provides protection, support and movement through challenges and demonstrations. Students will build a model hand and test it for strength and stability. | 3 to 5 |
| Bright Lights, Big Science |
Students investigate light and learn how light can be transmitted, reflected, refracted, or absorbed by materials in our environment. | 4 |
| Fight or Flight |
Students will learn the science behind what is happening in their bodies when they experience stress. They will explore their nervous system, endocrine system, and circulatory system. The session wraps up with a discussion of various ways students can reduce stress! | 4 to 6 |
| Driving Towards the Future |
In this workshop, students will learn about self-driving cars and use it as a platform to learn about the big ideas behind computational thinking. As an option, a debate or discussion on ethical issues related to self-driving cars can be included or left behind for the teacher. This hands-on workshop does not require the use of a computer. | 4 to 9 |
| Sportology |
Students will gain an appreciation for the ways in which science fits into their everyday lives, and how understanding scientific concepts such as balance, gravity, and aerodynamics can help them while playing sports. Activities must be held in a gym or outdoors. | 4 to 7 |
| Biodiversity Blitz |
Students learn through demonstrations and games why biodiversity is important at the individual, population, and ecosystem levels. Local species and biodiversity are highlighted. | 5 to 7 |
| It’s Electrifying |
Through various activities and demonstrations students will discover the basics of batteries and circuits. | 5 to 7 |
| Living Space |
In this workshop, developed in partnership with the Canadian Space Agency, students will build computational thinking skills by engaging in micro:bit coding activities related to the Living Space project. *Must be able to book school computer lab/laptops for classroom. |
5 to 9 |
| Crime Lab |
Students hone their investigative skills by working in teams, collecting data, identifying patterns, and analyzing results to solve a mystery. Techniques include chromatography, fingerprinting & chemical analysis. | 6 to 7 |
| Entrepreneurial Science |
Students form a company and invent and evaluate a self-propelled object. Students use problem-solving, planning, designing, testing, and budgeting. | 6 to 8 |
| Exploration Mars |
Learn about and experience the challenges of Space Exploration using uncrewed space probes (Orbiters, Landers, and Rovers), and use them to make discoveries about Mars and its ability to support life. | 6 |
| Fluids |
Explore what defines a fluid and different properties of fluid including density and buoyancy. Also includes hydraulic car lift demonstration. | 7 to 8 |
| DNA Discovery |
What is DNA? What is it made of and what is its structure? Why is DNA important? This workshop is an introduction to DNA and genetic inheritance. | 6 to 8 |