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Big Idea: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally.

Scientist testing water samples

Careers in the Great Outdoors

Lessons

Students explore careers related to outdoors and the land and then design and build a water filter prototype.

ceberg under the midnight sun in Greenland

Climate: Polar Regions

Backgrounders

Learn about the unique climate found in Earth’s polar regions.

Jean Paquin outside

Jean Paquin

Water Resources Analyst Engineer at Rio Tinto

Jean Paquin is a Water Resources Analyst Engineer at Rio Tinto.
Timothy Burkhart

Query a Career Profile

Lessons

Students will explore career profiles and relate them to what they are learning in science class.

Checking the inside of a pipe

Crack the Code: Water Treatment

Lessons

Students learn about the water treatment process as they complete a digital “escape room” on a Google site.

Anne Simonen au travail

Anne Simonen

Career Profiles

Civil Engineering Technologist

Anne Simonen is a Civil Engineering Technologist for Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd..
Martina Bona

Martina Bona

Career Profiles

Process Discipline Specialist

Martina Bona is a Process Discipline Specialist for Jacobs Engineering.
Rachel Chow dans un énorme conduit

Rachel Chow

Career Profiles

Wastewater Process Engineer

Mussels on a rocky coastline

Using Mussels to Monitor the Environment

STEM Explained

Mussels are a kind of invertebrate that filter food out of the water they live in. This makes them a great tool for monitoring environmental water quality and tracking bioaccumulation in aquatic food webs.

Cow

Cows, Methane, and Climate Change

STEM Explained

How do beef and dairy cows contribute to climate change? Livestock agriculture is a source of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.

Krysten Rutherford

Krysten Rutherford

Career Profiles

PhD Candidate, Oceanography

Krysten Rutherford is a PhD Candidate of Oceanography at Dalhousie University.
Dense tropical rainforest

Tropical Rainforest Biome

Backgrounders

Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of tropical rainforest biome.

African savanna

Savanna Biome

Backgrounders

Learn about the location, plants, animals, human impacts and conservation of the savanna biome.

Sheridan Thompson sur une falaise rocheuse

Sheridan Thompson (she/her/they/them)

Career Profiles

Doctoral Candidate

Sheridan Thompson is a Doctoral Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Variety of plant groups in Banff National Park, Alberta

Plant Taxonomy

Backgrounders

Learn about the categories, or phylum, of the plant kingdom with examples from each.