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Looking for a great educational tool to teach students about dairy farming and where food comes from? The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app.

It’s hard to tune out a science lesson when there’s a chicken on your desk. Thanks to a new mobile education program from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, teachers in the Ottawa area can bring a bit of farm life — and a lot of excitement — right into the classroom.

Field trip planning just got a whole lot easier. Thanks to the power of virtual reality, teachers based anywhere in the world can now take their students on an educational tour of the dairy barn at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum — which is also a working farm in Ottawa, Canada. The museum has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to develop “Explore a Dairy Farm,” a virtual reality (VR) expedition available through the Google Expeditions app. Nadine Dagenais Dessaint, who works as an

A new program at the Canada Science and Technology Museum is getting youth excited about science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM). Launched last fall, the STEAM Effect Project provides a cost-free opportunity for youth (ages 12 to 17) who do not usually participate in after-school programs, and who don’t seem themselves represented in the fields of STEAM. “In our first session, the participants made propeller cars, they made bridges out of K’Nex and tested to see which would hold

It’s not every day that you can sit back and enjoy a pint of beer while being entertained – and informed – by a professional scientist. But that’s exactly the idea behind the concept of the science slam. Modelled after the poetry slam, a science slam challenges scientists to deliver a five-minute, educational talk – while keeping their audience highly entertained. “I love educating others about the work I do, and seeing their eyes light up when I talk about fish and wildlife,” says Sarah Walton