Hands-on Science Resources for Home and School

The award-winning, non-profit Science Buddies empowers K-12 students, parents, and teachers to quickly and easily find free project ideas and help in all areas of science from physics to food science and music to microbiology. Whether your goal is to find a fun science activity for your kids or win the international science fair, sciencebuddies.org puts comprehensive, scientist-authored tools, tips, and techniques at your fingertips.

This artifact demonstrates the development of creativity in my classroom because it required all students to choose an area that interested them and investigate it further by creating their own experiment, using an idea and extending on it from the internet, or researching a topic. Students could choose whatever topic they wanted to. The requirements included following proper scientific methods when designing an experiment or studying a topic. Thus, this did not fall into a particular outcome, rather it was extra practice in developing the scientific method, which is focused on in every Unit of study.

The Science First Peoples 5-9 Teacher Resource Guide provides educators with resources to support increased integration of the rich body of First Peoples knowledge and perspectives into classrooms and schools. Developed in British Columbia.

The resource guide includes 8 engaging multi-grade thematic units:
Unit 1 – Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Unit 2 – Plants and Connection to Place
Unit 3 – Power from the Land
Unit 4 – Bear and Body Systems
Unit 5 – Climate Change
Unit 6 – Shaking and Flooding
Unit 7 – Interconnectedness of the Spheres
Unit 8 – Ocean Connections

Each unit contains a brief intro, essential questions, enduring understandings, curriculum connections, cross-curricular links, suggested activities, resources, assessment activities, and suggested additional resources.

The Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guides for Grades 5-9 (2016) and Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide Secondary (2019) were developed by the First Nations Education Steering Committee and First Nations Schools Association.

These guides support educators integrating the rich body of First Peoples knowledge and perspectives into Science courses and other curricular areas.

For elementary to high school students with lessons that engage through stories and podcasts. Segments in categories like Physics & Chemistry, Earth Science, Brain and Biology, and more will provide kids with a new way of seeing science.

Select EDUCATE from the top menu and use the filters to find the grade, subject and topic you need resources for.

We’ve talked a lot in this series about how often you see data and statistics in the news and on social media - which is ALL THE TIME! But how do you know who and what you can trust? Today, we’re going to talk about how we, as consumers, can spot flawed studies, sensationalized articles, and just plain poor reporting. And this isn’t to say that all science articles you read on facebook or in magazines are wrong, but that it's valuable to read those catchy headlines with some skepticism.

Science Kids is the home of science & technology on the Internet for children around the world.

Learn more about the amazing world of science by enjoying our fun science experiments, cool facts, online games, free activities, ideas, lesson plans, photos, quizzes, videos & science fair projects.

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Alberta Ed Lab Safety
Lab Safety
Safety Contract
Safety Game
Safety in the Science Classroom
Spongebob Safety Review

Science Lab Safety
The following are files to do with lab safety in science.
Alberta Ed. Lab Safety:
Lab Safety:

Safety Contract:

Safety game:
SpongeBob Safety Review:

The University of Saskatchewan offers this tremendous resource that promotes the richness and diversity of the sciences, nurture curiosity and innovation, and inspire students to consider a career in science, and support teachers to provide exciting educational experiences.

Check out the great collection of video and activity resources for teachers and parents to supplement and enhance K-9 science learning.

Check out these 19 categories of great science podcasts that you can listen to with kids. Many of the categories have a number of podcasts within. Topics include oceans, dinosaurs, light, sound, space, senses, animals , plants and much, much more!

Did you know that there’s a listening app with ONLY content for kids?! It’s called Kids Listen, and it features a playlist curated especially for educational shows! Check it out at https://app.kidslisten.org, or as an Apple or Google Play app. What a great way to let your kids discover what they love.

This Science Safety Resource is built for the K-12 science classroom. It supports planning and safe learning by providing information on safety legislation and standards. It provides examples of common hazards for chemical, physics and environmental science classes and shows how to protect against, minimize and eliminate theses hazards.

Introduction (pdf – 400 KB)
Chapter 1: Starting points for planning & policy setting (pdf – 207.8 KB)
Chapter 2: Emergency preparedness and response (pdf – 183.3 KB)
Chapter 3: Facility design & safety equipment (pdf – 250.8 KB)
Chapter 4: Risk management (pdf – 174.2 KB)
Chapter 5: Biological hazards (pdf – 176.8 KB)
Chapter 6: Physical hazards (pdf – 182.8 KB)
Chapter 7: Chemical hazards (pdf – 181.7 KB)
Chapter 8: Chemical management (pdf – 4.2 MB)
Chapter 9: Chemical hazard information (pdf – 190.9 KB)
Chemical hazard information table (pdf – 1.3 MB)
Appendices (pdf – 872.4 KB)
References (pdf – 65.8 KB)
Index (pdf – 254 KB)

During this assignment the students have a choice of a final project to
demonstrate their understanding of sound. The student may choose to:
• create a musical instrument out of recycled materials which plays at least
3 different pitches
• use materials to create sound effects to enhance a poem or story
While doing this assignment the students enhance their critical thinking and
creativity skills as they use what they know to solve a problem to create
something new. The live theatre presentation section of this assignment and the
rubric were borrow from the Sun West Distance Learning course for Grade 4
Science.

This site offers take-home science projects that can be completed with or without Internet access, all free of charge.

A collection of resources for students. This website includes many free lessons, activities and resources for students.
Some things included:
- FBI History
- Forensics Blogs
- CSI Web Adventures
- Fingerprints
- Blood & DNA
- Many, many more!

Every week Science North will provide Grade 4 teachers with a pre-recorded video and printable resource.

Teachers will be able to share these YouTube videos and resources with students weekly.

Included are classroom videos, student handouts, and offline lesson plans.

These videos and handouts can be sent to students to provide them with key concepts and activities that link to the curriculum.

"The Science of Happiness is a free online course that explores the roots of a happy and meaningful life. Students engage with some of the most provocative and practical lessons from this science, discovering how cutting-edge research can be applied to their own lives.

Since it first launched in September of 2014, The Science of Happiness has been hugely popular: It is one of the top 10 courses on the edX platform, where it is hosted; more than 500,000 students have registered for it so far; and students who complete the course report significant increases in their happiness and decreases in their levels of stress and loneliness."

You will have to register to take this free online course!

Even an empty lunch sack is useful to science. You can examine it and come up with some traits. In this episode, Sabrina chats about things like malleability, hardness, conductivity, and magnetism.

This collection houses resources that support teachers in implementing research and evidence-based practices in the instruction of reading. This collection is being added to and developed and is a "work in progress!"  Please continue to check back as we add more resources and links!