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.
How strong is paper? Fold and bend paper to see if different shapes lend more strength to a material. Investigate why columns are an effective building element for strong and stable structures.
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Humans have a knack for taking simple materials and making them stronger, more durable, or more resilient, just by making simple changes to their shape. Find out how you can make changes to strengthen materials that you can find at home!
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Soil is an essential source of life and nutrients for many living things. Students examine the composition and characteristics of soils and set-up an experiment to see how well different soils support plant growth.
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Students will play a sorting game and learn about composting. They will also learn how building soil is a nature-based solution for climate change.
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In this activity, students will explore the life cycle of a pine tree and learn what makes them different from other trees in the forest. After learning about special adaptations that allow certain pine trees to succeed, students can perform an experiment on a pine cone to see how change in temperature will affect the cones.
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In this lesson, students will learn what makes leaves green, and what makes them change colours, especially in the fall. They will understand the basic characteristics of plants and what makes them grow.
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In this lesson, students will learn about contact and non-contact forces by building a toy car and moving it with different forces.
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TOY CAR
Tools:
Body:
Four Wheels:
Axles:
Motors:
Students will learn about the forces found in the environment while experimenting with water.
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Spinning Water Bottle:
Water Wheel:
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.
