2021/2022 Curriculum-Aligned VIRTUAL STEM WORKSHOPS
Kindergarten to Grade 8 | Ontario Value Proposition After 32 years, Scientists in School Your inquisitive students, under the guidance of experts, will become is branching out. We are now delivering scientists, engineers and environmental stewards while developing our engaging hands-on STEM workshops the global competency skills they need to become tomorrow’s STEM workforce. virtually. All of the highly investigative activities you expect, delivered safely Our virtual classroom workshops bring:
and seamlessly to your classroom. + Individually packaged investigative materials provided in advance. + Fun and relevant investigations that build critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills. Cost: $230 Click here + The opportunity to highlight STEM careers and professional Class size: 27 Students Maximum opportunities for students. Duration: 1 hour to book! + Dynamic presenters, who are scientists, engineers, and technologists.
Age Groups How it works: Click on the grade below to access descriptions of the virtual Browse through this workshops available for your students: catalogue and select a workshop.
Kindergarten Grade 1 Grade 2 Book a workshop by visiting the booking portal here.
Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Receive mini science bags and distribute to students.
Grade 6 Grade 7 Grade 8 Join the Microsoft Teams meeting.
We understand how important virtual security and privacy are to you. We ensure our seamless workshop delivery through Microsoft Teams is secure and private. Presenters lead the workshop remotely. Cost: $230 Kindergarten Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
On the Move! Sense of Wonder Sticky Science Kindergarten Kindergarten Kindergarten Explore how things move! The world around us is a feast for Get sticky with it! Discover the Discover the science behind a our senses! Investigate sound and science of sticky. Make your own magic trick, defy gravity by creating design your own shakers. Explore glue from food products and test a balancing bird, engineer a car how our sense of taste and smell them to see how they hold. Create and race it to the finish line. are connected. Trick your eyes with your own sticky art. And of course, We’ll be on the move! 3D glasses you make and keep. there will be silly putty!
Participants receive their own Our Kindergarten friends were SO engaged MINI SCIENCE BAG during our virtual workshop. They had a blast and get to keep being little scientists and experimenting with all of the different materials to learn about physics. materials! I’m looking forward to continuing our exploration and extending the learning after our workshop! Kindergarten Teacher
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 1 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
Scientists in School provided an engaging, Intriguing Structures, real life learning opportunity for my students. Invertebrates Materials and More I love that each student has their own Grade 1 Grade 1 Who has thousands of teeth? Follow an engineer’s journey Mini Science Bag to allow students to further Who can float on water? Are you from materials to structure. the concepts that we experienced as a class. intrigued? Students will learn Explore a variety of materials to Grade 1 Teacher about the invertebrates in their understand their qualities. Then, own backyards by creating models through trial and observation, test of these creatures. Physical for structural effectiveness. Learn characteristics, habitats they live about attaching items with a fun in, the way they move and eat fastener challenge. Finally, build will be investigated with hands-on with materials to understand the and engaging activities. purpose of structures.
Our World of Energy Grade 1 Follow the influence of the sun as we study the impact energy has in our world. Investigate light Participants and sound energy. Transform receive their own chemical energy into heat while MINI SCIENCE BAG making bubbles. Discover how to conserve heat and experiment and get to keep with your own little house. Create all of the a storyboard to follow the path of materials! energy from the sun to all living things.
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 2 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
I Like To Move It! Properties Grade 2 Really Matter Push, pull, lift and roll! Hone Grade 2 your building and observation Liquids and solids are everywhere! skills as you make things move. Explore household solids and liquids Investigate pulleys, wheels and and how they interact. Investigate inclined planes. Combine all these the properties of solubility, absorption Participants simple machines to create an and buoyancy. Then engineer the receive their own awesome mechanism that helps solution to a common problem. us move objects. Create an unusual concoction from MINI SCIENCE BAG an everyday solid and watch it dance! and get to keep all of the materials!
The workshop was engaging, extremely hands-on and interactive. The kids were interested and participating the entire time. They loved the Mini Science Bags that went along with the lesson. Yet another great experience! Grade 2 Teacher
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 3 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here! I’m using this workshop as a model for ways Amazing Forces! Strong Structures to improve my teaching and science program. Grade 3 Grade 3 I love the ongoing questions and surplus of Amazing forces are all around us! Build your knowledge of materials that students keep to continue their Get creative by engineering a maze, structural strength as a junior exploration and discovery. Fantastic! then use gravity and magnetic engineer. Discover how to design force to navigate it. Investigate a structure to withstand both Grade 3 Teacher friction caused by different surfaces tension and compression. Test and its effect on movement. Design different materials for strength, and build your own launching and investigate how the strength device, exploring stored energy of a material can be altered by and control of force. manipulating its shape! Get the Dirt on Plants! Grade 3 Dig into the connected world Participants of soil and plants! Explore the receive their own importance of soil by investigating soil layers and MINI SCIENCE BAG experimenting with water and get to keep retention. Uncover the relation- all of the ship between plants and everyday items. Students will dissect a seed, materials! learn about seed dispersal, and end the workshop planting seeds - encouraging weeks of tracking and observing plant growth!
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 4 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
Get it in Gear Shine a Light Each time I use Scientists in School I see my Grade 4 Grade 4 students’ faces light up and become highly Simple machines are all around Join us on this optical adventure us! Discover where we use levers, and discover how light passes engaged in the world of science. Always a positive gears and pulleys in everyday through objects and forms learning experience for students and teachers. life. Investigate how levers lift. shadows. Bounce and bend light Grade 4 Teacher Assemble gear trains and belt to investigate reflection, refraction, drives and examine how they and fibre optics. Demonstrate how operate. Construct different pulley light travels with a flashlight that systems and explore why we use you can keep! them. Sounds Like Science Participants Hooo’s in the Grade 4 receive their own Owl Pellet? Follow the vibrations to discover MINI SCIENCE BAG Grades 4-6 the properties of sound: pitch and Experience being a real-life volume. Design and build ear and get to keep protectors, while experimenting biologist! Use an integrated STEM all of the approach to investigate the diet with materials that absorb or materials! of an owl and estimate the prey reflect sound. Use your newfound number and type. Dissect an owl knowledge to create a unique pellet, sort and identify bones. musical instrument. Opportunities pre- and post- workshop to enhance your student’s literacy, numeracy and visual arts activities by integrating owl pellet dissection and analysis into your program.
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 5 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
[The workshops] are always so engaging As a Matter of Fact... Hooo’s in the and provide a hands-on learning experience. Grade 5 Owl Pellet? Discover why chemistry matters! Grades 4-6 Even with the pandemic, Scientists in School Explore solubility, crystallization Experience being a real-life delivered a safe, exciting and informative session. and a change in state while biologist! Use an integrated STEM They were so adaptable and flexible. Can’t wait writing your initials. Create a approach to investigate the diet situation where nothing remains of an owl and estimate the prey to book again next year! the same and observe and identify number and type. Dissect an owl Grade 5 Teacher the indicators of a chemical change. pellet, sort and identify bones. Solve a mystery using the physical Opportunities pre- and post-work- and chemical properties of shop to enhance your student’s materials found in the cupboard! literacy, numeracy and visual arts activities by integrating owl pellet Fending Off Forces dissection and analysis into your Grade 5 program. Participants Fend off external and internal forces by exploring the techniques receive their own engineers use to keep buildings MINI SCIENCE BAG standing tall and strong. Shake off an earthquake, support a load, and get to keep and balance your way to structural all of the stability. materials!
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 6 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
Electricity: Hooo’s in the Such a great workshop! The kids had a great Close the Circuit! Owl Pellet? time and have been talking about it ever since! Grade 6 Grades 4-6 Explore the nature of electricity Experience being a real-life We learned so much and it was a great kick-off to and its use. See how static biologist! Use an integrated STEM our science unit. One girl even said she wanted to electricity makes objects move. approach to investigate the diet be an engineer after the workshop – I was thrilled! Design and build circuits to learn of an owl and estimate the prey how a house is wired. Test number and type. Dissect an owl Grade 6 Teacher conductors, insulators and pellet, sort and identify bones. switches. Opportunities pre- and post-work- shop to enhance your student’s Genetic Diversity and literacy, numeracy and visual arts activities by integrating owl pellet You! dissection and analysis into your Participants Grades 6-8 program. Explore the genetic diversity in receive their own plants, animals and humans MINI SCIENCE BAG through genetic traits. Find out Up in the Air! and get to keep which traits are common and how Grade 6 they are passed down. Read It’s all about balance when all of the chromosomes, examine families exploring flight. Coanda effect, materials! and calculate the probability of the properties of air and Newton’s traits passing to the next third law are all important when generation. Enhance your soaring above the clouds. understanding of mutations by Experiment with a variety of making a DNA model of your materials to construct the perfect name. parachute and make a glider that will boggle your mind.
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 7 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
The Scientists in School workshops are a fun and Engineer It: Genetic Diversity exciting way to engage students in curriculum- Up, Out and Across and You! connected STEM learning. I was impressed by the Grade 7 Grades 6-8 quality of the activities in the workshop, and found Your students will use sophisticated Explore the genetic diversity building techniques to test the in plants, animals and humans the scientist to be knowledgeable and friendly. limits of three different structures. through genetic traits. Find out Grade 7 Teacher Build up to new heights with a which traits are common and how tower challenge; build out to they are passed down. Read explore cantilevers; and build chromosomes, examine families across while learning about the and calculate the probability wonders of suspension bridges. of traits passing to the next generation. Enhance your under- Finding Solutions! standing of mutations by making Grade 7 a DNA model of your name. Be part of our STEM start-up company and design a planet- friendly bath product. Check out the competition and define Participants criteria which will differentiate receive their own your creation. Explore the properties of matter and learn MINI SCIENCE BAG about acidity and basicity. Use the and get to keep particle theory to communicate the results of investigations into all of the concentration and rate of dissolving. materials! Then use your science savvy to plan, design and test your own magic formula.
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Cost: $230 Grade 8 Class size: 27 Students Maximum Virtual STEM workshops delivered across Canada | www.scientistsinschool.ca Duration: 1 hour Book here!
All Systems Go! Go with the Flow Genetic Diversity and You! Grade 8 Grade 8 Grades 6-8 Get a grip on systems! Build an Explore fluids and their properties! Explore the genetic diversity in plants, assistive hand device like those Build a colourful but salty density animals and humans through genetic created by biomedical column. Find a boat while exploring traits. Find out which traits are common engineers to aid with fine motor buoyancy. Compare viscosities and how they are passed down. Read skills. Explore inputs and outputs while racing liquids. Discover the chromosomes, examine families and as you design and analyze linkages, difference between gases and calculate the probability of traits passing incorporate pneumatics, assess liquids under pressure. to the next generation. Enhance your mechanical advantage and consider understanding of mutations by making tradeoffs in force, distance and a DNA model of your name. materials. It’s all systems go!
Although the workshops were online, students were actively engaged in activities, and they participated in every aspect of the scientific inquiry process. I learned a great deal as well, especially about various careers in science and genetics. Participants I highly recommend this program to any teacher receive their own who wishes to spark the imagination MINI SCIENCE BAG of their students. and get to keep Grade 8 Teacher all of the materials!
A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001 Our Mission We are very grateful to have engaged 185,000 Our Mission is to ignite scientific curiosity in children in rich, engaging virtual experiences, children so that they question intelligently; learn during a year of challenging health restrictions. OUR through discovery; connect scientific knowledge We’re looking forward to expanding our reach to their world; are excited about science, tech- with both in-person and virtual experiences ANNUAL nology, engineering and math; and have their in the future. IMPACT interest in careers in those fields piqued. Our Vision 400 2020-2021: Our Vision is for all young Canadians Communities across Canada Organization-wide to be actively engaged in the seeing, doing and understanding of science. 8,000 Virtual classroom and community workshops delivered 185,000 Children and youth inspired through workshops 185,000 Mini Science Bags packed and delivered 10,800,000 Face time minutes of investigation 10,000,000+ Young scientists inspired since 1989!
Scientists in School is a registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001. www.scientistsinschool.ca Imagination City of Brantford • Community Foundation AMGEN • ArcelorMittal Dofasco • Ecclesiastical for Lennox & Addington • The Community Insurance • General Motors Canada • Nissan Foundation of Orillia and Area • Dwight and PARTNERS Canada Foundation • The Flanagan Foundation Karen Brown Family Fund: Ottawa Community Foundation • Guelph Community Foundation • IN STEM Discovery LabX Media Group Charity Fund at the Huronia ATB Financial • Canadian Nuclear Safety Community Foundation • Martin Foundation Across our organization, we are Commission • Cavendish Farms (J.D. Irving Fund at Hamilton Community Foundation • dedicated to engaging children, Limited) • Celestica • Community Foundation Niagara Community Foundation • Perth & teachers and families through Grey Bruce • Community Foundation of District Community Foundation • Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Society • Siemens • high-quality STEM enrichment. Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta • CST Inspired Minds Learning Project • The Smart and Caring Children & Youth Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga • Society As a charity, donors help us to Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation • Hamilton Community Foundation • Hunter of Petroleum Engineers Canadian Educational subsidize the cost of all of our Family Foundation • Imperial Oil • McMillan LLP • Foundation • The County of Wellington • classroom workshops by 15-20%, MilliporeSigma • Municipality of Clarington • The Township of Tiny • Town of Whitby – and provide over 2,000 Municipality of South Bruce (South Bruce Mayor’s Community Development Fund • complimentary workshops to Community Liaison Committee) • Ottawa Wellington County Medical Society schools serving low-income Community Foundation • Pendle Fund at the communities. Community Foundation of Mississauga • Curiosity Purdue Pharma • SAS Canada • S.M. Blair Family Acorn Fund for Youth Foundation • Superior Glove Works Ltd. • Syngenta Canada Inc. • Systematix Inc. • TELUS • We would also like to thank The Government Catalyst Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. • The Arthur and of Canada’s Emergency Community Support Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Audrey Cutten Foundation • The Catherine & Fund and the following organizations: Council of Canada • Ontario Trillium Foundation Maxwell Meighen Foundation • The Estate of Barrie Community Foundation • Brampton Douglas Leonard Martin • The McLean Foundation • and Caledon Community Foundation • Brockville Innovation The Saint John’s Legacy Foundation • Xerox Canada Investment Readiness Program • John and and Area Community Foundation • Centre Deborah Harris Family Foundation • Nuclear Exploration Wellington Community Foundation • Dufferin Community Foundation • Durham Community Waste Management Organization • Ontario Ajax Community Fund at Durham Community Foundation • Huronia Community Foundation • Power Generation • TD Friends of the Foundation • Alectra Utilities • Brant Community The Community Foundation of Orillia and Area Environment Foundation • Toronto Pearson Foundation • Cambridge & North Dumfries International Airport Community Foundation • Canadian Association We are also thankful to Ernst & Young, McMillan for the Advancement of Science • Canadian A registered Canadian charity: #867139537RR0001. LLP, Northern Biologics and Stewart McKelvey Federation of University Women Owen Sound for providing in-kind support to Scientists in Photo Credits: MaryAnn Griffin, Kim Lowes, Kathy Moore, and Sara Pournader and Area • Cajole Inn Foundation • School during this challenging period.