And thus begins the most revolutionary biology course in history. Come and learn about covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds. What about electron orbitals, the octet rule, and what does it all have to do with a mad man named Gilbert Lewis? It's all contained within.
It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and other that didn't and then some ideas that should have come first actually were figured out second.
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This week we’re exploring aerospace engineering and its two main fields: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. We’ll explore life & buoyancy, propulsion systems, and the challenges of managing the human body in space.
Canadian Kindergarten through Grade 12 Educators – Investigate the effects of outer space on seed germination with your class. Tomatosphere™ is a hands-on program that builds scientific inquiry and experimentation skills.
Tomatosphere™ offers an excellent opportunity to have your students think and act like scientists as they practice their inquiry skills and develop understandings of the nature of science and the concept of a fair test.
In the spring, participating classrooms receive two packages of tomato seeds. One package contains seeds sent into space or treated in space-simulated conditions. The other contains untreated "control" seeds. Students plant the seeds and conduct experiments to explore the effects of the space environment on the germination of tomatoes. Through Tomatosphere™, students learn how to conduct a scientific experiment and compare the number of seeds that germinate for the two groups of seeds.
While completing the Tomatosphere™ program, students investigate how to supply space exploration missions with life-support requirements—food, water, oxygen and a way to consume the carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts—while also discussing the many issues and research involved in space exploration.
Teachers can expand on the basic Tomatosphere™ Seed Investigation by connecting it to studies of plants, space, nutrition, math or the environment, depending on grade and curriculum.
"Tomatosphere™ offre une excellente opportunité pour permettre à vos élèves de penser et agir comme des scientifiques tout en pratiquant leurs compétences en recherche et en développant leur compréhension de la nature de la science et du concept d'une expérience équitable.
Au printemps, les salles de classe participantes reçoivent deux paquets de graines de tomates. Un paquet contient des graines envoyées dans l'espace ou traitées dans des conditions simulées d'espace. L'autre contient des graines "témoins" non traitées. Les élèves plantent les graines et réalisent des expériences pour explorer les effets de l'environnement spatial sur la germination des tomates. Grâce à Tomatosphere™, les élèves apprennent comment mener une expérience scientifique et comparent le nombre de graines qui germent pour les deux groupes de graines.
Pendant le programme Tomatosphere™, les élèves étudient comment fournir aux missions d'exploration spatiale les besoins en support de vie tels que la nourriture, l'eau, l'oxygène et un moyen de consommer le dioxyde de carbone expiré par les astronautes, tout en discutant des nombreux problèmes et recherches liés à l'exploration spatiale.
Les enseignants peuvent étendre l'Investigation de base sur les graines Tomatosphere™ en la reliant à des études sur les plantes, l'espace, la nutrition, les mathématiques ou l'environnement, en fonction du niveau et du programme d'études."
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Vortices of water, called "eddies," form off the northwestern coast of North America in the winter, and are particularly large during El Nino winters. Users can read and view satellite imagery which explains how these eddies carry nutrient-rich water offshore, providing nourishment for phytoplankton, microscopic plants which form the foundation of the marine food chain. This is part of NASA's Earth Observatory, a collection of publications featuring satellite imagery and information about Earth.
The Trans-Canadian Research and Environmental Education (TREE) project is a citizen science program where students from across Canada join with researchers from the Mistik Askîwin Dendrochronology Lab (MAD Lab) to learn about the stories trembling aspen trees tell and how a synchrotron can be a tool to tell that story. Join us as we explore this new area in research and learn about environments across Canada!
From a scientific perspective with TREE, trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) are a species of tree that is abundant throughout most of Canada. They also tolerate, even thrive, with much higher levels of toxins in their soil than most other species of trees and can potentially be used to remediate contaminated sites.
From an educational perspective, learning about the life and nutrient cycles of trees, nutrients in soil, and tracking effects on trees over time provides a wealth of opportunity for student education. The TREE program connects with curriculum across several subject areas and grade levels. It provides an interdisciplinary learning experience for students, including local Indigenous knowledge related to the trees, history, and the environment.
This awesome science video outlines how, as part of the engineering process, engineers identify and isolate variables and then run trials to test their solutions.
Students learn about the phases of the moon by acting them out. In 30 minutes, they will act out one complete, 30-day, moon cycle.
*Materials required:
-pencil or wooden skewer (one per student)
-white styrofoam ball, 5 centimetres or larger (one per student)
-light source, such as a lamp (shade removed) with a bright, clear, incandescent bulb (100 watts or higher)
Ce court métrage d’animation image par image raconte le périlleux parcours de la tortue marine, une espèce en grave danger d'extinction. Touchant et universel, Une histoire de tortues illustre toute la beauté des écosystèmes où vivent ces fascinantes créatures.
**Il existe une mini-leçon pour ce métrage d'animation sur ce site.
Les élèves se familiarisent avec les notions de tortue de mer et tortue de terre, prédateurs naturels des tortues de mer. Ils suggèrent des raisons pour lesquelles les jeunes tortues sont plus vulnérables que d’autres nouveau-nés dans la nature.
Universalis Senior is a French encyclopedia that provide advertisement-free, high-quality information. This resource is appropriate for immersion students in Grades 9 –Grade 12.
The University of Saskatchewan Science Outreach team has created videos and lesson activities that align with Saskatchewan Science 7 curriculum outcomes.
So... what makes the wind? You might be surprised to learn that it has to do with two of Earth's spheres; The Hydrosphere and the Geosphere. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina takes us to the beach to chat about how the wind comes into being and why that's pretty darn awesome!
This activity demonstrates how to import data from the Internet and make EXCEL graphs. The instructions included were provided by a classroom teacher who used these instructions with high school students.
So when water evaporates, what happens? Where does that water go? Does just vanish? Is it no more? Can matter ever just go away? Well, the answer is no, it can't. But it can LOOK like it does. In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how Conservation of Mass actually works with Sugar and Water.
Visit another of Canada's wonderful art galleries. Virtual tours of this colourful location are available through Google Streetview, which lets you walk past geometric landscape paintings and a melting steel structure, among other art pieces.
Be sure to click on the "Home" and "Explore" tabs at the top of the page to discover even more great learning opportunities on a wide range of topics.
Hank introduces us to one of the most diverse and important families in the tree of life - the vascular plants. These plants have found tremendous success and the their secret is also their defining trait: conductive tissues that can take food and water from one part of a plant to another part. Though it sounds simple, the ability to move nutrients and water from one part of an organism to another was a evolutionary breakthrough for vascular plants, allowing them to grow exponentially larger, store food for lean times, and develop features that allowed them to spread farther and faster. Plants dominated the earth long before animals even showed up, and even today hold the world records for the largest, most massive, and oldest organisms on the planet.
The CLS(Canadian Light Source), in Saskatoon, SK, is located on Treaty Six land in the traditional territories of the Nêhiyawak (Cree), Anishinabek, Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations, and the homeland of the Métis. As educators, we respect Indigenous Ways of Knowing and oral traditions. We dedicate ourselves to moving forward in the spirit of partnership, reconciliation, and collaboration.
The Virtual Classroom was created to have an accessible learning platform that students and educators from across Canada and the globe, especially those in remote areas, can engage with our learning activities and resources. We want to provide the opportunity for every student to learn and connect to science contexts, whether in their classroom, in the lab, at their home, or here, in the virtual classroom