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Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Nature BINGO

Students will go outdoors to search for various natural objects and living things, and try to be the first person to get a BINGO.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Summer Time Bucket List

Students will do a variety of activities listed on their "Summer Time Bucket List" and try to check off as many activities as possible over the course of the summer break.

Physics Volunteer Activities

Optical Inversion

Students will be introduced to a refraction - when light bends it passes from one material to another.

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Three States of Matter: Orange Soda

Students learn about the three states of matter and how they might interact in one system using baking soda solid and orange juice liquid in a cup to produce "orange soda" gas.

Information Technology Volunteer Activities

Cryptograph Wheel/Caesar Cipher

Assemble and use this cryptograph wheel to send coded messages to your friends! Cryptograph wheels help you solve "Caesar" or "shift" cyphers.

Engineering Volunteer Activities

Bridges, Strong and Stable Structures - Virtual Outreach

Students will get to learn about what a structure is and what materials can be used to build a strong and stable bridge.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Storytime - Microscope Fun

Read "Greg's Microscope" and learn about microscopes by building your own.

Health Sciences Volunteer Activities

Viral Vaccines SARS-CoV-2

Students learn about pandemics, coronaviruses and vaccines and then design a vaccine using information on the SARS-CoV-2 virus structure.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Animals Meet Alphabet

Students learn more about the diversity of animals through a card game.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Brain and Neurons

Students will learn about some important structures found in the human body’s nervous system along with their functions.

Astronomy and Space Science Volunteer Activities

Storytime - Pocket Solar System

Read "There's No Place Like Space" (or a similarly themed storybook) and learn about the Solar System by making a pocket diagram of the planets.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Beautiful Bees

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.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Butterfly Biodiversity (Grade 6)

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

Biology Volunteer Activities

Butterfly Life Cycle (With Video)

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

Biology Volunteer Activities

Circulatory System (Grade 10)

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