Storytime - Microscope Fun
Read "Greg's Microscope" and learn about microscopes by building your own.
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.
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.
Electricity: Harry Potter Type Wands
Students are introduced to a simple circuit and switch with a light bulb, similar to a Harry Potter type wand.
Balloon Cars and Pompom Poppers
Students build pompom poppers and balloon cars to learn about forces causing movement.
Fingerprints
Make a hand stencil, then record your fingerprints with graphite and examine them up close to learn about your unique fingerprints.
Pompom Poppers and Catapults
Learn about forces by building a pompom popper and catapult.
Harmonicas
Students will build a makeshift harmonica out of paper, popsicle sticks and toothpicks.
Chromatography Butterfly
Watch water flow up a coffee filter and separate the dye in a permanent marker, then create a butterfly with the end result.
Flight Challenge
Build, launch and test a glider made of paper, a straw and an elastic.
Pipe Cleaner Neuron
Learn about the importance of neurons and create a cell body and neuron model out of pipe cleaners.
Bridges
Design and build a bridge using given materials that spans at least 30 cm and is strong enough to not compress under one book.
Cloud Mobile
Learn about clouds and how they form, then create a model of various clouds at their specific altitudes.
A Model Hand
Create a model of your hand, with bones, knuckles, ligaments and tendons using paper, straw bits and string.
Driving Towards the Future - Virtual
Participants will be introduced to coding and will give instructions to program a car.