Science North's Floating Dock at the Ramsey Lake Boardwalk is currently decommissioned. Reopening is expected in Spring 2025. Please access via Paris or Elizabeth Street.
Classroom videos, student handouts, and offline lesson plans will be made available on the days listed below.
You will be able to send these videos and handouts to your students to provide them with key concepts and activities that link to the curriculum.
The offline lesson plans provide a detailed explanation of the concepts and the procedure. You can use this to help teach the lesson. These will also be made available to students without internet access.
In this lesson, students will learn about light while conducting three different experiments with materials found at home.
MATERIALS
CD SPECTROMETER
Cereal Box Variation:
Paper Towel Roll Variation:
COLOURED SHADOWS
SIMPLE WATER RAINBOWS
Option One:
Option Two:
In this lesson, students will learn about the properties of sound by building various instruments. Students will learn that sound is caused by vibrations and can be amplified.
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Harmonica:
Harmonica:
Car Horn:
Use household items to investigate how pulley systems can influence the relationships between force and distance as they relate to the concept of work.
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Explore, investigate and dissect objects from home that have gears.
MATERIALS
Rocks and minerals are important resources which we use everyday, even if we don’t realize it. Come and explore some of the ways minerals shape our everyday life.
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Mineral Testing Activity:
Everyday Minerals Activity:
In this lesson, students will learn concepts about rocks and minerals and start building their tool box of knowledge on how to identify each.
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Igneous Activity:
Sedimentary Activity:
Metamorphic Activity:
Bonus Activity:
In this lesson, students will learn about producers, consumers, and decomposers. They will explore types of consumers in an ecosystem (herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores) as well as learn how animal scat is an important clue to identifying an animal's place in the food chain.
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In this activity, students will learn about soil acidity and why different soil is important. They will learn about the Sudbury story, to help explain how humans can have positive and negative effects on habitats and the soil that all living things use. To understand all this, we will look briefly at what habitats are!
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Optional:
In partnership with the Ontario Government.
Science North and Dynamic Earth are situated on the traditional and ancestral lands of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek and Wahnapitae First Nation in Robinson-Huron Treaty territory, and our Thunder Bay operations are situated on the traditional and ancestral lands of Fort William First Nation in Robinson-Superior Treaty territory. Science North is grateful to work with First Nations across Northern Ontario and we give thanks to the Indigenous Peoples who have cared for this land since time immemorial. We pay respect to their traditions, ways of knowing, and acknowledge their many contributions to innovations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, past and present. We also recognize the Métis Nation of Ontario for their historic and ongoing contributions. Science North commits to deepening engagement, relationships and partnerships in order to advance truth and reconciliation, honour and reflect Indigenous ways of knowing, grow economic opportunities, and collaborate with Indigenous peoples as partners in order to inspire all people to be engaged with science in the world around them.
