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It's All in the Shape
Lessons
Students look for shapes in structures and then build and test different frame structures for strength and stability.
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Is a green apple always green?
Hands-on Activities
What does light have to do with colour? Observe some colourful fruit under different conditions to learn why we see the colours we see!
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KWL: Know/Want to Know/Learned
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students reflect on prior knowledge, wonderings and new knowledge.
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Magnificent Magnets
Lessons
Students develop and apply the skills of sorting & classifying, comparing & contrasting and predicting as they explore magnetism as a non-contact force that causes movement.
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Is Hookah Smoking Dangerous?
STEM Explained
Many people believe that hookah smoking is safer than cigarette smoking. But in fact, hookah smoking can be even more harmful to your health!
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Is feeling always believing?
Hands-on Activities
Get your hands cold for science and explore the topic of sensory adaptation.
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Making Comparisons
Teaching STEM
Making Comparisons is a way of thinking about two or more objects, ideas and/or events to find out how they are the same and how they are different. Knowing this information allows students to sort, classify and organize objects, ideas and/or events, to connect prior knowledge about them to new knowledge, and to develop appropriate comparative vocabulary.
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Is There Too Much Carbon Dioxide in Your Classroom?
STEM Explained
Did you know that too much carbon dioxide in the classroom can affect your body, and even your grades?
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Is it a liquid or a solid?
Hands-on Activities
Make some goop that has the properties of a liquid and a solid.
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Is Vaping Safer Than Smoking?
STEM Explained
Learn how e-cigarettes and other vaping products work, and why scientists and health professionals have concerns about their safety.
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Is it possible to change water into cola?
Hands-on Activities
Explore the concept of displacement of fluids in this hands on activity.
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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's... a Drone!
STEM Explained
Drones are very cool and very useful aircraft! This resource explains how drones stay in flight, and outlines some of their uses.
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Is there a difference between baking powder and baking soda?
Hands-on Activities
Explore acid-base chemical reactions that really get things bubbling in the kitchen!
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Keeping the Rink on Ice
STEM Explained
Learn about the chemistry of ice skating rinks, and the technology & engineering that lets us enjoy them indoors as well as outside.
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Issues & Stakeholders
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students develop critical thinking skills by identifying issues and stakeholders