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Students build a bee from foam balls and pipe cleaners to learn the anatomy of the bee, make a proboscis to "eat like a bee" and learn the bee waggle dance.

Students learn about butterfly biodiversity, build a butterfly biodiversity mobile from simple materials, and watch a clip from the Carleton University butterfly show.

Students build a life cycle of a butterfly and then watch a 10 minute clip from the Carleton University Butterfly Show.

Students complete a modification of the blood role play through the heart that the national office developed years ago.

Students model the digestive system, learning about some of the digestive enzymes and physiology along the way.

Students learn about dinosaurs with paper bag puppets and a fossil extraction activity using cookies.

Students are introduced to a simple circuit and switch with a light bulb, similar to a Harry Potter type wand.

Students build pompom poppers and balloon cars to learn about forces causing movement.

Students learn about characteristics of light and create their own kaleidoscopes.

Students use kitchen materials to look at changes and determine if they are chemical or physical changes.

Students examine seeds, make predictions on how they disperse and create a simple seed carrier that flies like a maple key.

Learn about the skeletal system and how it applies to movement and our bones.

Students are introduced to different types of household plastics and the concept of polymers and then complete two related experiments.

Students go through a pipeline of some of the tasks needed to be done for a patient to get their genome sequenced from point A, all the way to point B where the patient will receive their personalized treatment.

This activity consists of coding and engineering/physics problems that students go through on how to launch a rocket and get to Mars.