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 about the cardiovascular system by identifying the parts of the heart and the lungs, while also identifying their functions and their relation to one another.
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Students will learn the relations between muscle, bones, joints and ligaments while completing the Musculoskeletal System activities.
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In this lesson, students will learn about the three main states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. They will learn about how matter can change between these states and how this relates to particle theory.
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Ice Cream:
Rock Candy:
Butter:
Students will learn that chemical changes result in the formation of a new substance. Students will explore how to identify a chemical reaction through these experiments.
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Gas Formation:
Turmeric pH Indicator:
Turmeric Reaction:
Do you have what it takes to build the tallest tower? Learn what traits make a tower a tower and put your building skills to the test against internal and external forces.
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For a structure to stand the test of time, it has to be able to resist internal forces that act upon it. Investigate compression and tension forces and test how they affect building materials.
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How to make homemade no-bake play-dough (if you don’t have clay or Play-Doh at home):
In this lesson, students will make a pendulum and watch it swing to investigate potential and kinetic energy.
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In this lesson, students will investigate different types of insulation used to conserve thermal energy.
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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.
