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When teachers Gail Mills and Mike Fitzmaurice of Eganville & District Public School brought Let’s Talk Science’s Living Space project into their Grade 4 and 5 classrooms, they had no idea how successful it would be.

Science is everywhere. You don’t need a fancy lab to teach it. In fact, a kitchen can become a classroom. With the right ingredients, kids can learn how to make an egg float, get raisins to dance in soda pop, and build a marshmallow structure that will support weight. 

No surprise. The best science education has a way of engaging anyone. In this case, Melanie McComb isn’t a student, but a teacher in Brandon, Manitoba. She’s among the educators who’ve used Let’s Talk Science resources in the classroom and participated in the organization’s professional learning.

When you’re living through a challenging time like the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s helpful to be able to see hope on the horizon. Let’s Talk Science launched the Horizon Project in 2020 to provide learning kits to children in Grades 4-6 across Canada who may have been left behind as the country transitioned to a largely digital learning experience.

Let’s Talk Science Outreach coordinators and partners, recipients of the 2021 Youth Media Alliance Award for best program, short-form content, ages 9+.

Since 2005, we have offered the Let's Talk Science Challenge to educators and parents as a fun, free and easy way to engage youth in Grades 6-8 in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning outside the classroom.

To mask or not to mask? One of the earliest calls to action during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the impact of scientific literacy on personal decision-making and action. It exposed an unfortunate tension between opinion and evidence, which could be resolved, at least in part, through STEM1 education.

Before COVID hit, Chris Murray was visiting more than 50 classes per semester around Orillia as a Let’s Talk Science volunteer. When schools shut down in the spring of 2020, Murray, an associate professor of physics and sustainability sciences at Lakehead University, took his lessons online.

Shalini Iyer knows that for some students, the most meaningful lessons and inspiration can happen outside school. When Iyer prepares science activities for young people in Toronto’s Jane-Finch area, she is doing more than offering a fun after-school program. She is serving as a role model.

Let’s Talk Science is pleased to announce the appointment of three new members to our Board of Directors. Debasis (“DB”) Bhaumik, Eric Bosco and Deborah Saucier join a team of dedicated and accomplished professionals who guide and oversee the work of Let’s Talk Science.