What do you want to DO when you grow up?
Lessons
Students will use online tools and job search engines to explore career possibilities and the job market.
You Be the Crime Scene Investigator
Lessons
Students will learn about crime scene investigation and its connections to cell biology and careers.
Crack the Code: Water Treatment
Lessons
Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.
Choose Your Own Adventure Autobiography
Lessons
Students reflect upon the influences on their career path journeys to date and summarize these in an autobiographical poem or Powerpoint presentation.
Nicole Brisson
Career Profiles
Water and Tailings Engineer
Telescopes and Astronomy
Backgrounders
Visible light is only part of what astronomers study. They use different types of telescopes to study the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Heather E. McFarlane
Career Profiles
Assistant Professor & Canada Research Chair in Plant Cell Biology
Serina Hall
Career Profiles
Mechanical Designer
Light Pollution
STEM Explained
Light can be a type of pollution. Learn about the damage it causes to people and living things as well as how you can prevent it.
Anne Simonen
Career Profiles
Civil Engineering Technologist
Martina Bona
Career Profiles
Process Discipline Specialist
What Causes Hot Things to Glow?
STEM Explained
Getting electrons excited by heat can cause certain materials to give off visible light when heated - like filaments in light bulbs.
Krysten Rutherford
Career Profiles
PhD Candidate, Oceanography
Airborne & Space Telescopes
Backgrounders
Learn about telescopes that do their work high in Earth’s atmosphere and in space.