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 build a birdhouse and learn that animals need air, food, water and shelter to survive.
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Students will learn about the characteristics of living things and be a positive impact on animals by creating their own bird feeder.
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In this lesson, students will investigate how the sun is a primary source of energy for plants and animals. Students will explore the concept of using these sources of energy to make things grow and heat things up!
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Sprouting Seeds:
Solar Oven:
In this lesson, students will learn about different types of energy in their lives and build a catapult and paper airplane launcher which use energy to make them move.
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Catapult 1:
Catapult 2:
Paper Airplane Launcher:
Students will learn the difference between materials, objects and everyday structures and do activities to practice identifying materials, objects and structures.
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Students will explore friction using a simple machine and investigate how different materials create different amounts of friction.
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Students will pretend to be the Earth in a dark room with a lamp as their ‘Sun’. By spinning (rotating on your axis) you create night and day. Walking in a circle around the lamp (revolving around it) creates the year.
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Students will explore the seasonal process of freezing and melting (thawing) water.
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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.
