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.
Students will learn how to calculate the density of objects, and construct and calibrate a homemade hydrometer to measure the relative density of different liquids.
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Object Density:
Hydrometer:
Students will learn about buoyancy and density while completing the Cartesian Diver experiment.
MATERIALS
Note: if using a pen cap, make sure there are no holes on the top. If it does, cover holes with tape or clay.
In physics, the term “work” means something different than the way we use it in everyday life. In this activity, you will learn what we mean when we use the term in physics and will explore how to calculate it.
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Learn about the three classes of levers and investigate how they help us do work by experimenting with your own levers at home.
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Discover how municipalities treat their drinking water and create your own filtration system at home.
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* Activated charcoal or carbon is a form of carbon (chemical) that has lots of holes within it that allows it to react or stick to other chemicals and to remove these from water. It helps to clean water by getting rid of certain chemical impurities found within it.
Understand the geography of a watershed and how the effects humans can have on them.
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In this lesson, students will learn about the cells and investigate functions and processes of plant and animal cells. Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the basic structures and functions or organelles within plant and animal cells and their processes.
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In this lesson, students will identify DNA in the nucleus. Cells are the basic unit of life. All cells come from pre-existing cells with the nucleus holding all of the information needed to make every cell in the body. Students will also explore genetic phenology in fingerprint patterns.
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Fingerprints:
Strawberry DNA:
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.
