![Sunken boat](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-10/Sunken_boat.jpg?itok=6LslrCNu)
Design & Build a Floating Device
Lessons
Students work collaboratively to design and build a floating device.
![Energy-saving light bulbs are a great way to save money at home](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2019-09/one-hanging-energy-saving-light-bulb.jpg?itok=IocGQakA)
Energy Efficiency at Home
STEM Explained
If you understand heat transfer, you can make lots of little changes at home to help the environment and your household’s bank account!
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Design & Build a Marble Run
Lessons
Students will work collaboratively to design and build a marble run that meets specific criteria.
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Can You Store Electricity for Later?
STEM Explained
Sometimes, power plants make too much electricity. Energy storage technologies can help! They store the extra electricity and release it when demand goes up.
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BYO (Building Your Own) Timeline
Teaching STEM
This is an individual or whole class strategy which combines reading/viewing comprehension skills with critical thinking skills. Individually or in groups, students choose one or several points from the timeline and create a sub-timeline related to the selected point(s).
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Can Chocolate Make Your Brain Work Better?
STEM Explained
Researchers have found that consuming foods rich in flavanols is linked to more efficient blood flow, which can improve brain function.
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Can Your Own Cells Cure Cancer?
STEM Explained
When a person has cancer, CAR-T Therapy uses their own cells to destroy the cancer cells in their body.
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Can we make butter?
Hands-on Activities
Do you like butter? Find out how easy it is to make!
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Canadian Invaders!
STEM Explained
Beavers are a Canadian symbol. But in South America, they’re considered an invasive species.
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Admit Slip
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students access prior knowledge by filling in a type of ‘ticket’ which admits them to class.
![Billiard balls and a cue stick on a felt-covered table (PIRO4D, Pixabay)](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2020-03/Billiard_balls_and_stick.jpg?itok=eHUZkzLE)
Billiards and Collisions
STEM Explained
The game of billiards shows the principles of collisions, momentum & impulse, and kinetics at work!
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Anticipation Guide
Teaching STEM
This strategy helps students access prior knowledge and challenge assumptions about a topic.
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Animal Adaptations
Lessons
Students develop and apply collaboration & communication and computational thinking skills to learn the ways in which animals adapt to their environments.
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Animal Life Cycles
Lessons
Students develop sorting & classifying and comparing & contrasting skills as they investigate the life cycles of animals.
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A Merry Molecular Christmas
STEM Explained
Many holidays mean delicious food - and smells! This fun article looks at the chemistry behind the common aromas of Christmas.