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Physics

Pulleys

Experiment with different pulleys to lift a water bottle.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Pack and Prepare

Students will rank the supplies given for an expedition to the Arctic for scientific research in order of importance.

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Albedo

Students conduct an experiment to explore the albedo effect.

Information Technology

Driving Towards the Future

Participants explore the current topic of self-driving cars and use it as a platform to learn about the big ideas behind computational thinking.

Information Technology Volunteer Activities

Brain Buster Virtual Quiz

Students participate in a series of exciting virtual quizzes.

Psychology Volunteer Activities

IN-SYNC’s Dancing Along to Belong!

Students will learn how to feel closer to their peers even while being apart during the pandemic through learning about movement synchrony and learning a dance together.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Invasive Species in Hamilton Harbour

Students will be introduced to ecosystems and the differences between native and invasive species, with a focus on fish that can be found in Hamilton Harbour.

Physics Volunteer Activities

Morse Code Telegraph

The principles of electricity and magnetism can be used to communicate - for example by using an electromagnet to make a Morse code transmitter.

Biology Volunteer Activities

What's That Smell? Holiday Scent Guessing Game

This activity from the Feast for the Senses Lending Library kit is great for community booths. The attached discovery card is Christmas/holiday themed. Participants try to guess the smell of various bottles.

Biotechnology Volunteer Activities

Smartphone Microscope Stand

Online instructions for building inexpensive microscope stands that can be used with smartphones to take pictures of magnified objects.

Health Sciences

Circulation

In this activity, participants will explore the functioning of their circulatory system and how different activity levels impact it!

Information Technology Volunteer Activities

The Dots

Students learn about how data in computers is stored and transmitted as a series of zeros and ones and complete an activity to represent words and numbers using just these two symbols.

Astronomy and Space Science Volunteer Activities

Constellation Detective

Students are given an unlabeled picture of a night sky and asked to find the constellations in it.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Food Web Jenga

Students will learn about food chains and trophic levels, and then gain an appreciation for the complexity and interconnectedness of ecosystems and how food chains are affected by environmental events using a game of Jenga with colour-coded blocks.

Physics Volunteer Activities

Make Your Own Bottled Music

Students see how different amounts of air and water in a space can change the way we hear sounds.