Explore Canada's Energy Future with this interactive dashboard.
To dive deeper into machine learning and A.I. concepts, check out the activities and resources on code.org
For more activities that explore green energy, check out these resources:
Grid Coding: This activity will have students creating their own grids and completing coding challenges .
Bee Bot Challenges: Additional challenges that you can do with the Bee Bot emulator we used in your workshop!
Robot Mouse Challenges: Similar to a Bee Bot, a robot mouse can be programmed using directional arrows. These can be purchased in our store or online and this activity outlines different challenges you can code your Robot Mouse to complete.
Eat a Rainbow: This activity has students identify and think about the variety of fruits & vegetables they eat.
Contamination Station: In this activity, students explore how germs spread and how effective handwashing can prevent illness. (Glo Germ supplies needed)
Yeast-inflated balloons: Gut bacteria often produce gasses. This activity demonstrates another microorganism often found on our bodies and environments, and the gas it produces. You could discuss differences between fungal and bacterial microorganisms.
Poop Factory: This physical game explores the digestive system.
What is a Biome?: Students classify BC biomes (according to the Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification system) by amount & type of precipitation.
Plant Classification: This activity guides students to classify plants based on observed characteristics.
Food Web Tag: This game explores how living things (classified by feeding relationships) interact.
Niche and Habitat: In this activity, students classify coastal temperate rainforest animals based on their niche and habitat.
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!
Try the Cabbage Juice Indicator activity presented in the session as a post-visit exploration with your students!
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 joining our Tech-Up Ambassador program 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 joining our Tech-Up Ambassador program 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 joining our Tech-Up Ambassador program 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!