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Earth & Environmental Sciences

Dirt Detectives

Soil is an essential source of life and nutrients for many living things!

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Human Change, Not Climate Change!

Climate change is taking place all around us, but how do we see and measure it?

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Sustainable Seas, Please

Ocean ecosystems are dynamic and important for human livelihoods, thus need to be carefully managed.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Food Fight

In this food web activity designed for grades 4-6, participants utilize images of different animals to determine their relationships within an ecosystem, identify predator-prey connections and construct a comprehensive food web.

Astronomy and Space Science

STEM Storytime - Solar Eclipse Phases Fold-Up

Get excited for the total solar eclipse!

youth with a telescope

Learn about the total solar eclipse

Get excited to view the total solar eclipse!

Astronomy & Space Science

Make a pinhole camera

Volunteer Activity - Alternative Science Facts

Ecology Mapping

Students will learn about some of the basic techniques of mapping ecological data and the roles of citizen scientists in ecological conservation.

Rethinking Energy

Rethinking Energy: A Climate Resilience Workshop

In this workshop, youth will consider the effects of climate change on oil infrastructure on a fictional island and reflect on the long-term changes to the island’s oil policies that are needed for sustainability by adopting multiple stakeholder perspectives.

Volunteer Activity - Alternative Science Facts

3D Printed Animal Tracks

Participants learn how to identify animals that may live in their environment using “signs”. Then, they will learn how photogrammetry can be used to scan and make digital models out of animal tracks found in nature so that they can be 3D printed.

Information Technology

Step Counter

Learners create a Micro:bit step counter using Make Code.

information technology

Password Protection!

Learners enhance their understanding of encryption and decryption to protect personal information and develop critical thinking skills by using different encryption tools to create and send coded messages.

Earth & Environmental Science

Design and Build a Seed Saver

Learners develop computational thinking skills and global competencies as they collaboratively work together to design and build a structure that will protect the last Truffula seed (from the story ‘The Lorax’).

information technology

Python Coding Club

Learners build off the skills they developed in the (Scratch) Coding Club, developed by McGill University, and further expand some foundational computer programming concepts and further develop computational thinking skills.

Health Sciences

Cancer Fact or Fiction

How can we tell what is cancer fact versus fiction? Learn how to critically evaluate online sources for credible information on cancer research topics while understanding the importance of research translation across the internet.