Grades 11-12

This workshop explores the effect of acidification on marine and freshwater systems.

How can we use basic knowledge of how circuits work to construct a simple appliance? This burglar alarm is easy to understand based on knowledge of circuits and switches.

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

This activity demonstrates the importance of engineering and allows students to practice teamwork!

This is a lecture based lesson on the brain - the basics on the brain, how drugs effect the brain, how nutrition effects the brain and the importance of looking after our brains. Following the lecture, a hands on "egg drop challenge" can be done with the students, emphasizing the importance of wearing helmets.

This is a comprehensive lesson plan on sailing - the history of sailing, parts of a sailboat, the physics of floating, wind, physics of sails, keeling and modern sails. The kit also includes an activity where students make a sailboat and hold a regatta.

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

Students learn about interspecific competition and population and ecosystem dynamics through a fun and dynamic game. They are introduced to adaptations, prey and predator relationships, food chains and evolution.

Learn about electricity and magnets and how they influence each other by creating your own electromagnet!

To pictorially demonstrate the relationship between the sine and cosine graphs and the unit circle. This will give the students a better idea of what the graphs should look like rather than having them memorize it.

To demonstrate how two eyes interact with each other, and how strange things can happen when we alter the conditions in which we see the world.

In this activity, students will test different "alien soil samples" for signs of life.

Students have the opportunity explore different ways that animals insulate themselves to stay warm in winter by testing different insulating materials in ice cold water (e.g., fur, cotton balls, foil, thermal sock, etc.).

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.

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