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Visit the Tinkering Space: The WorkSafeBC Gallery

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Electricity
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Forces and Motion
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Gallery
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Included with admission
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Explore science and art through the ingenuity of your imagination. Learn about safety and tool literacy with our tinkering exhibits, and think with your hands with our daily programming.

hands tinkering and making

Curriculum Links

The exhibits and programming within the Tinkering gallery relate to the following curricular areas:

Science K: Motion of objects
Science 2: Forces
Science 4: Energy
Science 5: Simple Machines
Science 6: Newton’s Laws
Science 7: Electricity
Science 9: Circuits
ADST K-9: Ideating, Making, Sharing
ADST K-9: Applied Skills, Applied Technologies

Language

  • English

Additional Information

Please note: School workshops may be occurring in the back half of this space between 10am and 2pm.
Check the white board near the entrance to the gallery for Tinkering programming times.

Curiosity Quest

Download a worksheet to encourage grade-appropriate exploration in our various galleries while on your Science World field trip. There’s one for:

GRADES 1–3
GRADES 4–7

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Survivors

Artist: Jeff Kulak

Jeff is a senior graphic designer at Science World. His illustration work has been published in the Walrus, The National Post, Reader’s Digest and Chickadee Magazine. He loves to make music, ride bikes, and spend time in the forest.

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Egg BB

Artist: Jeff Kulak

Jeff is a senior graphic designer at Science World. His illustration work has been published in the Walrus, The National Post, Reader’s Digest and Chickadee Magazine. He loves to make music, ride bikes, and spend time in the forest.

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Comet Crisp

Artist: Jeff Kulak

Jeff is a senior graphic designer at Science World. His illustration work has been published in the Walrus, The National Post, Reader’s Digest and Chickadee Magazine. He loves to make music, ride bikes, and spend time in the forest.

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T-Rex and Baby

Artist: Michelle Yong

Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.

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Buddy the T-Rex

Artist: Michelle Yong

Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.

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Geodessy

Artist: Michelle Yong

Michelle is a designer with a focus on creating joyful digital experiences! She enjoys exploring the potential forms that an idea can express itself in and helping then take shape.

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Science Buddies

Artist: Ty Dale

From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.

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Western Dinosaur

Artist: Ty Dale

From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.

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Time-Travel T-Rex

Artist: Ty Dale

From Canada, Ty was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1993. From his chaotic workspace he draws in several different illustrative styles with thick outlines, bold colours and quirky-child like drawings. Ty distils the world around him into its basic geometry, prompting us to look at the mundane in a different way.

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