It’s easy to forget that soil is teeming with life. With your students, dig into the ground and discover the creatures hiding there.

What is our primary source of heat and light? How do the daily and seasonal cycles of the Earth affect everyday life? Students will answer these questions and more with a trip to the museum’s inflatable planetarium.

This series of inquiry based activities helps students understand the less obvious connections between our everyday lives and farming.

What better place than a working farm to explore the impact of modern agriculture on the environment?

Students discover what is hidden under their feet through a series of hands-on workshops.

Students explore the basics of electrical circuitry by examining automotive technology. Lead hands-on demonstrations that teach students about electric motors and combustion engines. Visualize how

Driving the Future is a teaching resource package that enables students to discover the scientific, technological, social, and environmental impacts of vehicle use in Canada from their own classrooms.

Discover how our houses are wired, allowing us to control various devices independently in different rooms. Through various hands-on electricity experiments, students will explore electrically conductive and insulating materials, and will learn the parts of an electrical circuit.

Through exploration with circuit blocks, students will design and build series and parallel circuits, including the addition of switches and various devices. They will also learn to assess the differences in these circuits, and draw circuit diagrams.

We need energy for everything we do. It’s what makes cars drive and airplanes fly, computers run and lights turn on. We need it to cook our food and to keep warm in the winter. Teach Grade 1 students