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 how to use Stellarium Web, a useful web-based planetarium tool. Stellarium can be used to navigate the night sky, as well as find key celestial objects, such as the North Star, planets, the Moon, and the seasonal constellations.
Listed below are the concepts that will be covered:
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In this lesson, students will learn more on how to use Stellarium Web in order to navigate the night sky at different locations, as well as find key celestial objects, like the Milky Way, the Orion Nebula, planets, and the southern constellations.
Listed below are the concepts that will be covered:
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Students will learn about biodiversity and two different types of agriculture; monoculture and polyculture.
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During this lesson, students will learn about biodiversity and ecosystems by looking at the importance of wetlands and indicator animal species within them. Students will also learn how to build their own terrarium, make their own frog calls, and will tackle questions on the importance of wetlands.
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Terrarium Materials:
DIY Frog Call Materials:
*Please follow your city’s rules and avoid searching for materials at public parks or nature areas that are off limits. Please try and find materials at home. If you cannot find materials at home, you can draw and colour a terrarium with all of the correct labels of layers on the handout
In this lesson, students will learn about static electricity by following three hands-on experiments and designing one of their own.
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Students will learn that current electricity is a flow of electrons through a circuit that is in series or in parallel and they will explore the differences between conductors and insulators.
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Conductive and Insulating Play-Doh:
Paper Circuit:
Do you know what air is made of? Why does it act the way it does? Explore some of the properties of air as you try and blow up a balloon in a bottle and build your own balloon rocket!
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Balloon in a Bottle:
Balloon Rockets:
Can you create a paper aircraft using one sheet of uncut paper? How far will it glide? Explore what allows flight to be possible, and apply learning about what elements affect the distance and direction of your glide.
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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.
