The Science Centre is a great place to take your class on a field trip! The Science Centre includes hands on activities, workshops, and resources for teachers to explore.
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In this activity, students use a paper plate to build a model that shows why lunar eclipses don’t happen during every full moon.
Find a ton of pre-recorded virtual events from Flipgrid to use with your class.
There is something here for every age group, and every subject!
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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.
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.
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)
Students learn about the mechanics of a lunar eclipse.
Students will use the Danjon Scale of Lunar Eclipse Brightness to assign an “L” value at three points during an eclipse. After the eclipse, students compare and justify their evaluations of the eclipse.
This lesson from NASA explains how the Earth's tilt causes the seasons. There are also links to related resources on the webpage.
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