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.
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.
Code a Drum in Scratch
Learners develop decomposition skills and learn about sequences and repetition by using Scratch to code a drumming sequence.
Can You Program a Human Robot?
Learners create simple commands to help guide a human "robot" to retrieve an item in the room.
Can You Debug These Math Problems?
Learners are presented with six solved mathematical problems and must work to debug these problems to determine which are solved correctly and which are not.
Code and Go Mice
Welcome to the science of computational thinking! In this workshop, students learn how to code using a Code and Go Robot Mouse which can be programmed with travel directions to navigate through mazes.
Code and Go Mice - Community Event
The goal of this activity is for students to program a mouse to get from the starting position to the cheese wedges without going on squares occupied by cats or mouse traps.
The Use of AI in Healthcare
Learners will use their knowledge of AI to ponder and complete a consequence map about the use of AI in the healthcare sector, through exploring a real-life scenario.
Code Shapes in Scratch
Learners develop decomposition, pattern recognition and algorithmic thinking by using their knowledge of simple geometric figures to code shapes in Scratch.
Let's Talk Garbage Pollution
In this workshop, participants will learn about the effect that landfills have on the environment and how landfills contribute to climate change.
Oil Spill
Students learn about animals in water, human impacts, and are given materials to attempt to clean up a cooking oil spill.
Age to Degradation Board
What happens to the things we put in the garbage? In this activity, participants will learn how long it takes common everyday materials to degrade in a landfill and ways they can reduce the amount of waste they produce.
Buzzing Bees: Exploring Pollination - Climate Extensions
This is a fun, interactive activity to help participants understand the process of cross-pollination! This activity includes optional extensions that explore the impact of climate change on bees.
Structures against Extreme Weather
Students design and build a structure that protects toy people from a hurricane.
Guess Who? Animal Sounds
Learn about Canadian animals and the sounds they make.