Hank introduces us to nonvascular plants - liverworts, hornworts & mosses - which have bizarre features, kooky habits, and strange sex lives. Nonvascular plants inherited their reproductive cycle from algae, but have perfected it to the point where it is now used by all plants in one way or another, and has even left traces in our own reproductive systems.
Today we’re looking at silicon, and how introducing small amounts of other elements allow silicon layers to conduct currents, turning them into semiconductors. We’ll explore how putting two different types – N and P semiconductors – together gives us electrical components like diodes, transistors, and solar cells.
Hank introduces us to the "simplest" of the animals, complexity-wise: beginning with sponges (whose very inclusion in the list as "animals" has been called into question because they are so simple) and finishing with the most complex molluscs, octopuses and squid. We differentiate them by the number of tissue layers they have, and by the complexity of those layers.
Summary – Students embark on a scavenger hunt at their school and in their community, searching for real world examples of the 6 simple machines and how they exert force on an object to put it in motion.
Hank introduces us to the framework of our bodies, our skeleton, which apart from being the support and protection for all our fleshy parts, is involved in many other vital processes that help our bodies to function properly.
What if you were on a high floor of a skyscraper and the building started swaying? Today we’ll explore statics and dynamics, and what they mean for the structures we design. We look at the idea of static equilibrium, forces, and torques, and how free body diagrams can help us make sense of it all.
No need to travel to one of the Smithsonian’s zoos or museums — this website brings your child everything from live video of the National Zoo to the Smithsonian Learning Lab right to their screen
The Smithsonian Learning Lab puts the treasures of the world's largest museum, education, and research complex within reach. The Lab is a free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning.
Use the search tool to discover lots of resources on endless topics. The sky's the limit!
This educational website hosted by the Smithsonian Museum takes a deep dive into ocean life.
Une série de simulations provenant de l’Université de Colorado à Boulder pour les 9e – 12e au sujet des sciences. Cette simulation démontre le processus de solutions acido-basiques.
Comment les acides forts et faibles diffèrent-ils ? Utilisez des outils de laboratoire sur votre ordinateur pour le découvrir ! Plongez le papier ou la sonde dans la solution pour mesurer le pH, ou insérez les électrodes pour mesurer la conductivité. Ensuite, observez comment la concentration et la force influent sur le pH. Une solution d'acide faible peut-elle avoir le même pH qu'une solution d'acide fort ?
Included in this resource:
- Space activities and fun experiments to do in the classroom, with youth groups and at home.
- Curriculum-based learning activities on the Moon for Canadian youth and educators.
- Toolkits for educators and youth.
- Indigenous Moon stories and lunar cycle, resources for and about First Nations, Inuit and Métis.
- Digital games, e-book, quizzes, puzzle, podcasts, cutout, 3D printing models.
- Posters, infographics, paper game, models, colouring sheets to download and print.
- Resources for teachers, youth leaders, science centres, museums, community groups and parents.
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Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs.
I decided to do this activity as a fun way to get my students engaged in the ever daunting physics unit in science 10. This activity was very easy to set up and I already had access to most of the materials at school. The basic idea of this was to create a launcher or sling shot with the materials you are given that will launch your army man the farthest. I gave each group 3 tries as sometime the launch didn’t go as planned. We marked the farthest launch and I had a prize for the winning group.
This site offers tons of science experiments that can be done at home.
Today we’re talking all about fluid mechanics! We’ll look at different scales that we work with as engineers, mass and energy transfers, the no-slip condition, stress and strain, Newton’s law of viscosity, Reynold’s number, and more!
This hands-on project is an impactful way to show students how truly immense our solar system is! You get to decide if you want your model to show scale planet sizes or the scale distances between planets. You can combine a planet-size model of one scale with a distance model of another scale. But if you want size and distance to be the same scale, you’ll need to spread your model across at least half a mile!
Specific directions on how to calculate size/distance scales are included.
This awesome science video explores how engineers discover solutions to their problems by identifying the parts of the solution that fail (failure points) and using that information to design better solutions that won't fail.
This school division developed handbook offers many reading strategies that are applicable for use in the content areas.
Daily lessons and educational activities that kids can do on their own . Topics include reading, writing, science and math, health, language, art, music, fun and games.
This resource was designed for educators and provides hundreds of ideas for the classroom for integrating Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESD) into their classrooms.
There are resources for:
No poverty
Zero hunger
Good health & well-being
Quality education
Gender & equality
Clean water & sanitation
Affordable, clean energy
Decent work & economic growth
Industry, innovation, infrastructure
Reduced inequalities
Sustainable communities
Responsible consumption & production
Climate action
Life below water
Life on land
Peace, justice, strong institutions
Partnerships
This is a fantastic resource!