Edith Tobe
Career Profiles
Executive Director
Weather: Clouds
Backgrounders
Learn how clouds form and how they can be grouped into different categories
Seasonal Activities: Winter
Picture Collections
13 images of some activities that may happen in the winter such as snowboarding, skating and playing hockey on ice
Why Do Ice Rinks Stay Frozen?
STEM Explained
Every ice rink is an example of molecular bonding and gas laws at work!
Why is rain not salty?
Hands-on Activities
Make a model of the water cycle and find out how water moves around on planet Earth.
What is the Water Cycle?
Lessons
Students develop the skills of observing and recording observations as they explore how the water cycle works.
What are the effects of acid rain on rocks?
Hands-on Activities
Learn about the chemical reaction that happens between acid rain and limestone.
The Water Cycle
Picture Collections
1 diagram illustrating the water cycle
Properties of Liquids and Solids
Lessons
Students develop and apply observing, comparing & contrasting and predicting skills as they explore the properties of common liquids and solids.
Ringwoodite and the Deep Water Cycle
STEM Explained
The water in the oceans has travelled vast distances. It has even time spent deep below the surface of the Earth, trapped inside the mineral ringwoodite.
Seasonal Activities: Summer
Picture Collections
16 images of some activities that may happen in the summer such as swimming, canoeing and playing baseball
How many drops of water can you rest on one coin?
Hands-on Activities
Explore surface tension in this hands on challenge activity.
How much of an iceberg is on top of water?
Hands-on Activities
In this hands on activity find out just how much of an iceberg is below the surface. It might surprise you!
Humidity on Earth and on the ISS
Backgrounders
Humidity is an important part of life on Earth and life in space. This backgrounder explains what humidity is, how it is measured and how it affects us both mentally and physically.