Less than 1 hour

Students will design an illusion in order to understand how motion is perceived.

Students participate in a series of exciting virtual quizzes.

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.

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.

Students take their fingerprints and identify the patterns.

This is a great hands-on activity for large-scale community events or even in class visits. Students build spider webs out of toothpicks, thin, flexible wires, and beads. This can act as a supplement to other bug-related activities or even to discussing elements of mathematics in nature.

An activity to demonstrate how a planisphere operates. A planisphere is a star chart analog computing instrument in the form of two adjustable disks that rotate on a common pivot.

In this activity, participants will build a scale model of the distances in the solar system using a roll of toilet paper to better understand distances in space.

Students will classify species of monsters using a creature dichotomous key.

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.

This activity discusses Optics/Perception and teaches about the persistence of vision.

This activity will introduce younger audiences to what science is.

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.