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Decisions and Perspectives

Geologists with seismograph

How can you build your own seismograph?

Hands-on Activities

Build your own seismograph using common household materials.

Bee on flower

Can you artificially pollinate a flower?

Hands-on Activities

Design and build an artificial pollinator.

Car-shaped lake in a vast green forest

Can you design a sustainable vehicle?

Hands-on Activities

Design a transportation vehicle which can be made or powered sustainably.

Illustration of an empty box with a question mark

Let's Talk Misinformation: Resources

Backgrounders

Discover a set of resources to get you thinking about misinformation and its spread in advance of the symposium Let's Talk Misinformation.

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Gallery Walk

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy provides students with the opportunity to walk around a classroom, actively engaging with content and each other.

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Leading Questions

Teaching STEM

This strategy helps students solve a problem by asking each other leading questions.

Michaella Chemello cuisinant et servant des crêpes au Stampede de Calgary

Michaella Chemello

Engineer in Training (Civil)

I am a Civil/Structural Engineer-In-Training at Fluor Canada.
A diverse group of students studying a set of papers spread out on a table

Four Corners

Teaching STEM

This learning strategy helps students to make decisions about a problem or question.

Engineer inspecting a solar panel

Careers In Sustainability

Lessons

Students explore non-traditional careers related to sustainability and sustainable development.

Electrical engineers at work

Engineering a Future Career

Lessons

Students explore the different branches of engineering and discover the similarities and differences between them.

Girl at lemonade stand

Create Your Own Small Business

Lessons

Students will learn the fundamental skills and attitudes needed to set up and run a small business.

Students working together on a laptop

Learning About Technological Careers

Lessons

Students will research careers and post-secondary pathways related to their current course. 

Student presenting to peers

Demonstrating Skills in Technological Careers

Lessons

Students will learn and demonstrate skills required in a career of interest.

Fleet of autonomous trucks driving on reserved lane

A Case Study of Autonomous Trucks

Lessons

Learn how artificial intelligence is affecting the trucking industry as a way to explore how technology and society are related.

Ethical hacker

Careers of the Future

Lessons

Students will learn about potential careers of the future and create their own job description.