Nicole Brisson
Career Profiles
Water and Tailings Engineer
Megan Laracy
Career Profiles
Geologist
All About Minerals
Backgrounders
Learn about the characteristics and uses of minerals.
The Processes that Shape Landforms
STEM Explained
Canada has some amazing landforms. Learn how weathering, erosion and deposition shape landforms.
What are the best materials to use for cleaning water?
Hands-on Activities
Water is a precious natural resource. What happens if it gets polluted? Learn how water can be cleaned with this hands-on activity?
What is Fracking?
STEM Explained
The fracking process gets natural gases out of rocks. This process can have effects on freshwater, water quality and even earthquakes!
The Rock Cycle in Canada
STEM Explained
Products of the rock cycle are visible all across Canada.
Plate Tectonics
STEM Explained
The surface of the Earth is constantly moving, and earthquakes and volcanoes occur, because of plate tectonics.
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.
Na Na Na Na (Hey Hey Hey) Sodium!
STEM Explained
Sodium is a useful chemical element. You consume it as table salt regularly. Learn about salt mining, sodium uses, and what problems too much sodium can cause.
Impact Craters
Backgrounders
Learn about how craters are formed and about some of Canada's impact craters.
How did dinosaurs leave fossils behind?
Hands-on Activities
Using a toy dinosaur and some plaster of Paris, learn how dinosaur footprints could become fossils.
How Did a Piece of Canada End Up in Australia?
STEM Explained
Learn how geologists used radioactive dating to uncover geology shared by both Canada and Australia.
What is a Crystal?
STEM Explained
Learn what makes a crystal a crystal.