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.
Investigate how the centre of gravity of a structure affects the structure’s stability and balance, then test your skills at stacking a dramatic overhang that seems to defy gravity.
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Can you create a chair that can hold a load using only paper and tape? Explore what makes a chair strong and stable enough to sit on, and apply learning about what elements lend support, strength, and stability to structures.
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This lesson will reinforce teachings within the realm of biology, chemistry, and earth sciences, by taking a look at the carbon cycle and climate change. It will lay the foundation of how the carbon cycle influences life on Earth, and will tackle questions on climate change and how it occurs in both natural (geological / environmental events) and anthropogenic (human influence) processes.
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This lesson will reinforce teachings within the realm of biology, chemistry, and earth sciences, by taking a look at the albedo effect and climate change. It will lay the foundation of how the reflective power of surfaces influences Earth’s climate, and will tackle questions on cloud formation, glacial melting, rising sea levels, and overall climate change.
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In this lesson, students will investigate interactions within the environment and identify factors that affect the balance between different components of an ecosystem. Students will also assess the impacts of human activities and technologies on the environment, specifically on Lake Sturgeon.
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In this lesson, students will learn about animal adaptations. The focus of adaptations will be on bird beaks specially adapted to their diet. This will help to better understand interactions between biotic elements within the environment and interactions in ecosystems.
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In this lesson, students will learn about the particle theory of matter and how it explains the behaviour of particles at different temperatures.
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Students will learn the difference between a pure substance and a mixture by experimenting with household items.
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Baking Powder Experiment:
Healthy Yummy Baking Powder Experiment:
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.
