"OK Go Sandbox is an online resource for educators that uses OK Go’s music videos as starting points for integrated guided inquiry challenges allowing students to explore various STEAM concepts."
This art history video dicussion examines Georgia O'Keeffe's "The Lawrence Tree", oil on canvas, 31 x 40 inches, 1929 (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford). Painted in the summer of 1929 while visiting D.H. Lawrence at his Kiowa Ranch during O'Keeffe's first trip to New Mexico, the tree stands in front of the house.
The primary purpose of this task is to illustrate that the domain of a function is a property of the function in a specific context and not a property of the formula that represents the function. Similarly, the range of a function arises from the domain by applying the function rule to the input values in the domain. A second purpose would be to illicit and clarify a common misconception, that the domain and range are properties of the formula that represent a function.
Students conduct an experiment to determine how varying the composition of a construction material affects its strength. They make several adobe bricks with differing percentages of sand, soil, fibrous material and water. They test the bricks for strength by dropping them onto a concrete surface from progressively greater heights. Students graph the experiment results and use what they learn to design their own special mix that maximizes the bricks' strength. During the course of the experiment, students learn about variables (independent, dependent, control) and the steps of the engineering design process.
The Observation Survey includes 6 tasks:
Letter Identification - Students are asked to identify capital and lower case letters in any way they can.
Word Test - Students read a list of 20 words.
Concepts about Print - This task identifies what children know about how print works.
Writing Vocabulary - Students are given 10 minutes to write as many words as they can.
Hearing and Recording Sounds in Words- A short story is dictated and students are asked to record the sounds they hear.
Text Reading - Students are asked to read text and their level is identified
Science Background:
When substances are mixed they may change state or they may change into a new substance completely. Students will observe changes in colour, temperature, volume, and state in this activity.
Materials: 50mL graduated cylinder, bromothymol blue indicator, 3 resealable bags, 2 spoons or scoopulas, baking soda, calcium chloride powder
Explore the process of obtaining credit including the role of down payments and credit calculations.
Teacher Guide included
7-10 hours
Ocean Heroes Bootcamp empowers existing and emerging youth leaders to create their own campaigns to take action against ocean plastic pollution. Through a collaboration with a group of ocean health organizing partners, the Ocean Heroes Bootcamp provides youth with the skills, resources, and confidence to create campaigns to tackle single-use plastic pollution in their communities. Ocean Heroes HQ fosters a globally connected community of youth around one central goal: to create and implement campaigns that permanently reduce plastic pollution. Campaigns created by Ocean Heroes support the achievement of UN SDG 14.1, “By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.” Campaigns also support the Clean Seas campaign of organizing partner UN Environment.
The Remote Network of Ocean Heroes is a free, open-source curriculum designed to enable ocean health organizations, education institutions, and passionate communities to implement the Ocean Heroes Bootcamp content seamlessly into their youth programs.
Simply put, ocean literacy is understanding the ocean and our relationship with it. But the ocean isn’t so simple to understand! That’s why the Ocean Literacy Framework was developed.
Multilingual Learning Platforms
Web resources, quizzes, videos and badges designed to support educators and help develop an understanding of how humans impact the ocean and how the ocean influences us.
Available for elementary, middle, secondary schools and educators.
Student Courses
Educator Courses
What is the Ocean Plastic Program?
The Earth’s oceans, and the interconnected cycle of water and waterways, are vital to every living thing on Earth. And yet the health of these oceans, and by extension the well-being of all life on Earth, is at risk due largely to the impacts of human activity. Plastic is everywhere in our oceans and it’s going to take a deep, transformational change in humanity’s consciousness and activities regarding the oceans to ensure healthy, sustainable life on this planet.
We believe this is possible! But we need your help. Our youth need to be made aware of their own plastic use and how their actions will have a direct impact on the environment around them. Through these resources we hope youth will become leaders of change - and this all starts in your classroom.
Available for elementary, middle, secondary schools and educators in English and French
Teacher Tool Kits
Curriculum Links By Province
Teacher Unit Plan
Student Workbooks
About Ocean School:
Ocean School is a free environmental education resource for students in grades 5–12. Our inspiring and immersive multimedia resources featuring linear and 360˚ videos, VR/AR, interactive media and hands-on projects and activities are offered in English and French. Our cross-curricular content spans science, social studies, language arts and more!
Ocean School is the result of a dynamic partnership between the National Film Board of Canada and the Ocean Frontier Institute at Dalhousie University. A team of scientists, educators, and storytellers are creating innovative and engaging content that illustrates how we all have a role to play in protecting the ocean and seeks to inspire the next generation to take action!
Visit Ocean School: https://oceanschool.nfb.ca/
One of the many things that make Ocean School's content library so special is how our content spans across a wide range of subjects. In the same learning resource, students can learn different concepts related to science and technology, English language arts, social studies, mathematics, and more.
Discover lesson activities, PowerPoints, videos, mp4 clips and much more!
For grades 5-6, 7-8, 9+.
In this activity, students are presented with a satellite image of ocean temperature, and examine the map to determine whether ocean temperature is influenced by latitude. Students graph each temperature value as a function of latitude and write a linear equation that best fits the points on their graph. A student worksheet is provided. Summary background information, data and images supporting the activity are available on the Earth Update data site. To complete the activity, students will need to access the Space Update multimedia collection, which is available for download and purchase for use in the classroom.
Ocean Wise Kits pédagogiques pour les éducateurs et les étudiant(e)s
Sur Ocean Wise, nous aidons les éducateurs à introduire la culture océanique dans leurs classes et à donner aux élèves les moyens d'agir tout en renforçant leur lien avec l'océan. C'est exactement ce que font nos kits pédagogiques. S'appuyant sur les dernières données scientifiques et sur les recherches menées dans le cadre de nos propres initiatives de conservation, sur le boisement marin, sur la pollution des océans, sur les baleines, les fruits de mer et la pêche, sur les connaissances indigènes, ainsi que sur des pédagogies actives et constructivistes, chaque kit aborde les questions interdisciplinaires du changement climatique.
Chaque kit pédagogique est disponible pour l'école primaire (de la 3e à la 6e année), le collège (de la 7e à la 8e année) et le lycée (de la 9e à la 12e année), et est traduit en français et en anglais. Le guide de l'éducateur fournit des conseils détaillés sur la manière de mener les activités en classe et sur la façon dont les activités sont liées aux concepts du programme de cours spécifique. Les élèves reçoivent un cahier d'exercices pour réaliser des activités amusantes et interactives spécifiques à leur âge, telles que des jeux en ligne, des collages, des discussions, etc. En 2022, nos kits ont touché 81 000 étudiant(e)s de 79 pays.
Chaque kit a un thème réparti sur sept leçons et comprend un kit d'outils pour l'enseignant et un cahier d'exercices pour l'élève. Veuillez sélectionner le groupe de niveaux scolaires ci-dessous pour explorer les ressources disponibles.
Students further their understanding of the engineering design process (EDP) while being introduced to assistive technology devices and biomedical engineering. They are given a fictional client statement and are tasked to follow the steps of the EDP to design and build small-scale, off-road wheelchair prototypes. As part of the EDP, students identify appropriate materials and demonstrate two methods of representing solutions to their design problem (scale drawings and simple scale models). They test the scale model off-road wheelchairs using spring scales to pull the prototypes across three different simulated off-road surfaces.
In this task, students are able to conjecture about the differences and similarities in the two groups from a strictly visual perspective and then support their comparisons with appropriate measures of center and variability. This will reinforce that much can be gleaned simply from visual comparison of appropriate graphs, particularly those of similar scale.
A collection of resources for teachers to use with their classes, collated by the OTC.
For Grade 4 look for:
- Novel study for As Long as the River Flows
- PowerPoint- Treaty Game Show
For Grade 5 look for:
- Novel study for As Long as the River Flows
- PowerPoint- Treaty Millionaire Challenge
For Grade 6 look for:
- Novel study for As Long as the River Flows
- PowerPoint- Treaty Millionaire Quiz Show
Activities and lessons are available for Kindergarten to Grade 12.
New York Times bestselling author Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is the key to changing yourself and the world around you.
Science is the process and the body of knowledge that enables us humans to know nature. So far, it’s the best idea we’ve ever had.
Website includes books, documentary, shows and much more.
If teachers or parents are looking for ways to engage students in offline learning activities at home, check out this choice board. It is composed of activities that encourage students to think critically and creatively, document their learning, reflect on these unconventional learning experiences, and share what they’ve worked on with their peers.
Students learn and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They also learn about our nation's electric power grid and what it means for a residential home to be "off the grid."