Try the Paper Helicopters activity described in the session as a post-visit exploration with your students!
Here is the pre visit activity in case you missed it, and more Forces-related resources!
Thank you for exploring nature and climate action with us in this program. Download the Post-workshop Teacher Resources to continue the adventure and discovery (includes English and French resources).
Try our Classroom Activity: The Swirls Around Us.
This workshop develops students' ideas around what matter is and how matter can change. Through hands-on experiments, students will learn to differentiate between chemical and physical change!
Try our Classroom Activity: Crystal Gardens
This workshop is a great way to introduce or conclude a chemistry unit. Students will observe demonstrations and carry out hands-on activities to relate the properties of familiar (and more exotic) substances with the atoms that they're composed of!
Map Your Fruit: This activity is a great introduction to transportation energy usage and how it can be reduced.
Grid Coding: This activity introduces some coding concepts as an unplugged (no screens) challenge that incorporates physical movement.
Continue On Your Adventure: Ken Spencer Science Park: Transportation Exhibit
Litter Robot: Code a robot in scratch to explore a virtual neighbourhood and pick up litter.
Here are a few lessons you can use for students to create their own recycling sorting machine out of household materials!
Will it Wilt?: In this activity, students examine the differences between two similar plants when one plant is deprived of the power of sunlight.
Flower Dissection: In this activity, students will observe the parts of a flower and learn how each part is involved in helping a plant continue its growth for another generation.
Light Sensing with Micro:bits: Code a micro:bit to help a real plant grow by monitoring the light level it's experiencing. Need micro:bits? Consider joining our Tech-Up Ambassador program to borrow a class set from us!
Blooming Flowers: Code a light-sensing micro:bit to trigger a servo motor attached to a plant built of straws and connectors so that it appears to bloom when exposed to light! Need micro:bits and strawbees robotics kits? Consider signing up for our Tech-Up Loaner Kits to borrow a class set from us!
Geometry with Finch Robots: Explore the coding behind drawing more geometric shapes with the Finch Robots! Don't have any? Consider signing up for our Tech-Up Loaner Kits to borrow a class set from us!
Tessellations and Spirographs with Finch Robots: Deepen your understanding of patterns in math by exploring the code behind tessellations and spirograph drawing with the Finch Robots. Don't have any? Consider signing up for our Tech-Up Loaner Kits to borrow a class set from us!
Drawing Shapes with Scratch: Continue your learning of the code behind drawing geometric shapes using Scratch instead of robots!