2017-2018 ' PROGRAM CATALOGUE ¡ Inquiry-Based STEM Workshops for Kindergarten to Grade 8

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City of Guelph, Waterloo, Halton and Peel Regions, Wellington and Dufferin Counties q WE OFFER EXPERIENTIAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATH (STEM) AND ENVIRONMENTAL WORKSHOPS FOR YOUR INQUISITIVE STUDENTS.

Under the guidance of STEM experts, your K-8 students become scientists, engineers and environmental stewards while developing the 21st century competencies needed for tomorrow’s highly skilled workforce. Since 1989, 8 million students have discovered through our workshops that science, engineering and math are fun and relevant.

• An inquiry-based, curriculum-enriching experience with plentiful scientific materials the benefits of having a ~ ~ • Local presenters who are scientists, engineers, technologists and more • Opportunity to highlight STEM career pathways • Post-workshop extension package to support your lessons Scientistsworkshop in your in classroomSchool • As a charity, every workshop is subsidized by our donors

WORKING TOGETHER TO PREPARE CANADIAN YOUTH FOR THEIR FUTURE  Like you, our goal is to inspire all children, regardless of their future aspirations. We want to work with you to help shape the confidence, interest and skills your students need to realize their dreams. Critical thinking, collaboration, communication, creativity and problem-solving are purposefully incorporated in our workshops and suggested extension activities.

MAKING SURE OUR WORKSHOPS MEET YOUR NEEDS We use an evidence-based approach to provide high-impact workshops that enhance curriculum and provide real-world experiences for your students. A recent post-workshop survey* of first-time users (teachers) of our workshops showed:

leveraged the ideas in our workshops to 73% enhance their science lessons/teaching

felt Scientists in School encouraged their 83% students to use critical-thinking skills, evidence-based reasoning and argumentation felt our workshops helped their students ' 86% better understand the work done in class

discovered new ideas to use in 94% their science program *Survey was conducted across 140 schools by Western University researchers BE AN EARLY BIRD FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A FREE WORKSHOP! Book your workshop by October 15, 2017 and have it by January 31, 2018 to be entered into a draw to win one of 10 Activities shown complimentary workshops (to take place between February may not be available and June 2018). Winners will be notified by February 16. in all regions. KINDERGARTEN Backyard Bugs I Can Be A Scientist Magnet Magic For Little R V R V Explorers R V “Bee” an entomologist. Meet Become a working scientist Uncover the power of attraction WORKSHOPS the insect family and their as you dig for dinosaur by investigating magnets. relatives. Develop a new bones and make a fossil as Explore how magnets like to Book online and find our appreciation for bugs by a paleontologist. Investigate push and pull. Discover what booking terms, conditions investigating how they behave, sea life as a marine biologist magnets find attractive and if eat, see and hear. Camouflage and fly into outer space as an magnetic forces work through a and cancellation policy at as a butterfly and see the world astronaut. Experiment with variety of materials. Search for scientistsinschool.ca through the eyes of a dragonfly. mixing and dissolving to create sandbox treasures, go fishing Identify interesting backyard an erupting volcano as you try and make a magnetic wand to Maximum 30 students/workshop bugs and make an insect to out the sciences of chemistry, test at home. take home. physics and geology.

Sensational Science Simply Marvellous Machines V R V Investigate how your senses Discover how simple machines help you understand the world. help you every day. Find simple Trick your taste buds with our machines at an imaginary taste test and discover how playground as you experiment you can see and feel sound with inclined planes, dig with waves! Read with your fingers wedges and make a lever to while exploring the connection test at home. Investigate how between sight and touch. pulleys make work easier and See how the world looks explore how to make bubbles  through different eyes. using gears. There’s No Place Like Home! V Follow footprints and other clues to find the home of the mystery animal. Develop a lifelong respect for the environment by learning about a variety of habitats. Examine worms and unearth their importance. Discover that sea water is salty and meet an animal that carries its home.

SCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL

Introducing science careers starts in Kindergarten, leading factoidmany students to exclaim “I’m going to be a scientist ¡ when I grow up!”

R: Follow-up Teacher Resources V: Volunteers Required GRADE ONE Animal Coverings And Energy Makes It Happen Keep Track: Animal Adaptations ESS C1-2 R V ME R V Autographs LS C1-2 V How does beaver fur feel Investigate the sun’s power by Become a detective and learn WORKSHOPS compared to raccoon fur? What exploring the impact energy how to identify clues left behind does a butterfly wing really look has on our lives. Make a bubble by a variety of mammals, Book online and find our like? Explore some of nature’s grow using heat from thermal birds and reptiles. Examine booking terms, conditions most unusual coverings including energy. Discover the energy feathers, nests, skulls, quills, quills, shells, scales, feathers needed to power different scat, pellets, chewed logs and cancellation policy at and fur. Investigate the devices and learn about energy and antlers. Research animals scientistsinschool.ca insulating properties of animal conservation. Build a sun chain and their food, habitat and coverings and discover some to learn that the sun is the strategies for survival. Identify Maximum 30 students/workshop of the amazing adaptations earth’s primary energy source. animals by sound or by their animals use to survive their Create paintings using solar tracks. environment and seasonal power. changes.

Kitchen Chemistry For Microscopy: More Than Never Say Ugh To A Bug Curious Kids SI C1-2 R V Meets The Eye SI C1-6 V LS C1-2 V As a food scientist, investigate Use microscopes to explore Develop a new appreciation what yeast needs to grow and the world of the small and for bugs as an entomologist. how to blow up a balloon by mighty. Activities are geared Examine a variety of living mixing a solid with a liquid. to each grade and may include and preserved specimens Challenge your powers of the exploration of hitchhiker on a scavenger hunt in the observation while making a seeds, insect parts and plant classroom. Explore insect life surprise drink and make a and animal cells. Meet some of cycles. Discover the benefit and mystery substance that could the weird and wonderful living beauty of pollinators and how be both a liquid and a solid. creatures found in pond water. critical their role is to life on earth.

Structures: Under Construction SM R V Join our engineering team and build a structure capable of supporting your teacher. Discover the concepts you need to make this happen. Explore the role of fasteners and the properties of materials using real tools. Test 3-D shapes for structural strength. Build a framework and test for strength and stability.

“ I said to one of my parent volunteers: ‘One of these children will go on in life to become a biologist or paleontologist’.”

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE TWO Animal Coverings And Get Moving With Toys Keep Track: Animal Adaptations ESS C1-2 R V SM V Autographs LS C1-2 V How does beaver fur feel Discover how simple machines Become a detective and learn WORKSHOPS compared to raccoon fur? What make work easier for us. Learn how to identify clues left behind does a butterfly wing really look about movement on inclined by a variety of mammals, Book online and find our like? Explore some of nature’s planes. Send a secret message birds and reptiles. Examine booking terms, conditions most unusual coverings including using a pulley system. Discover feathers, nests, skulls, quills, quills, shells, scales, feathers the importance of wheels and scat, pellets, chewed logs and cancellation policy at and fur. Investigate the axles as you build your own and antlers. Research animals scientistsinschool.ca insulating properties of animal car. Investigate the power of and their food, habitat and coverings and discover some levers and make a screw to strategies for survival. Identify Maximum 30 students/workshop of the amazing adaptations take home. animals by sound or by their animals use to survive their tracks. environment and seasonal changes.

Kitchen Chemistry For Let It Flow: Air And Water Looking At Liquids Curious Kids SI C1-2 R V ESS R V ME R V As a food scientist, investigate Discover the properties of air Marvel as you explore the three what yeast needs to grow and and water. Learn that air has states of matter. Change a how to blow up a balloon by weight, takes up space and can liquid to a solid and then eat mixing a solid with a liquid. be used to save an accident it! Compare the flow rate of Challenge your powers of victim. Explore the water cycle, different liquids and test their observation while making a uncover the hidden power of a ability to absorb into a solid. surprise drink and make a water wheel and race your own Investigate buoyancy through mystery substance that could yacht to experiment with sail manipulation of materials. be both a liquid and a solid. size. Discover how liquids and solids interact. Accept the challenge to produce the world’s biggest bubble.

Microscopy: More Than Never Say Ugh To A Bug Meets The Eye SI C1-6 V LS C1-2 V Use microscopes to explore Develop a new appreciation the world of the small and for bugs as an entomologist. mighty. Activities are geared Examine a variety of living to each grade and may include and preserved specimens the exploration of hitchhiker on a scavenger hunt in the seeds, insect parts and plant classroom. Explore insect life and animal cells. Meet some of cycles. Discover the benefit and the weird and wonderful living beauty of pollinators and how creatures found in pond water. critical their role is to life on earth.

Ocean Habitats and Adaptations LS C2&4 V Discover how living creatures have adapted to life in the ocean. Take a seaweed taste test, build a kelp forest food web and investigate the dangers of pollution to sea creatures. Identify octopuses and clams, examine starfish, sharks, horseshoe crabs and more.

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE THREE Force, Of Course! Microscopy: More Than Plants Do Amazing Things ME R Meets The Eye SI C1-6 V LS R V Step into the physics lab to Use microscopes to explore Join this botanical adventure WORKSHOPS investigate friction, elastic, the world of the small and and explore how a plant magnetic and gravitational mighty. Activities are geared breathes, grows and Book online and find our forces. Use a catapult to to each grade and may include manufactures food. Experiment booking terms, conditions measure the impact of force the exploration of hitchhiker with photosynthesis, use leaf and cancellation policy at on a projectile. Discover the seeds, insect parts and plant characteristics to identify science behind removing a and animal cells. Meet some of trees and dissect a seed. Be scientistsinschool.ca tablecloth from underneath the weird and wonderful living amazed by plant adaptations dishes without any breaking. creatures found in pond water. and explore some of the Maximum 30 students/workshop Learn how to defy gravity! extraordinary products made from plants.

Soil: It’s Too Important To Be Structures: Stable And Strong Treated Like Dirt! ESS R V SM R V Become a pedologist and get Build your knowledge of dirty with a variety of soil types. structural strength and stability Discover that soil is composed as a junior engineer. Investigate of earth materials and decaying how the strength of a material organisms. Test soil samples can be altered by its shape. for essential nutrients and learn Create structures and learn the how soil supports plant growth. impact of forces acting upon Investigate erosion and learn them. Take up the challenge to about decomposers by studying design, build and test a bridge. earthy creatures.

“ With the rich resources and multitude of activities, Scientists in School takes science to another level. They transform the classroom environment into a science wonderland which excites even the most unmotivated student.”

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE FOUR Adventures In The Bone Zone Battles In The Tropical Don’t Take Rocks For Granite SI C4-7 R Rainforest LS V ESS V Join this ecological adventure Join our research team, travel Become a junior geologist and WORKSHOPS and dissect an owl pellet. Delve around the world and explore dig into the rock cycle. Test into the diet and digestion of tropical rainforest habitats. the hardness of minerals and Book online and find our an owl as you discover what Make a rubber ball and discover examine igneous, sedimentary booking terms, conditions they eat for breakfast. Use the benefits of using renewable and metamorphic rocks. magnifiers to sort and identify rainforest resources. Learn Identify mystery minerals all and cancellation policy at bones and assemble a rodent about special adaptations of around us and mine some scientistsinschool.ca skeleton. Examine and compare rainforest plants by constructing edible ore. Experience the life a variety of mammalian skulls a tree from the roots up. Build of a paleontologist in the field Maximum 30 students/workshop to determine species. a rainforest food web and and unearth real fossils! learn the impact of species extinction.

NEW! Fractions In Action Gearing Up: Fun With Pulleys Light Up Your Life M C4-5 And Gears SM R V ME R Puzzle through fraction games, Become a physicist and Join us on this optical learning to read and compare discover how pulleys and adventure and discover natural fractions. Challenge yourself gears can make work easier. and artificial sources of light. with our fractions jeopardy Construct gear trains and Turn your classroom into a game. Battle it out in Fractions identify gears used in our daily colourful disco while learning War. Use manipulatives to lives. Build and design pulley about the visible spectrum. explore mixed numbers and systems to change an applied Bounce and bend light to improper fractions. Apply your force. Be part of a human investigate reflection, refraction, new skills to follow a recipe and pulley and devise how to move and fibre optics. Demonstrate drink the resulting concoction. something bigger than you! how light travels and explore optical devices.

Microscopy: More Than Ocean Habitats and Meets The Eye SI C1-6 V Adaptations LS C2&4 V Use microscopes to explore Discover how living creatures the world of the small and have adapted to life in the mighty. Activities are geared ocean. Take a seaweed taste to each grade and may include test, build a kelp forest food the exploration of hitchhiker web and investigate the seeds, insect parts and plant dangers of pollution to sea and animal cells. Meet some of creatures. Identify octopuses the weird and wonderful living and clams, examine starfish, creatures found in pond water. sharks, horseshoe crabs and more.

Sound Is Music To My Ears ME R Discover the science of sound as musical maestros. Explore sound waves and learn how sound can make your desk hum. Play the bucket bass to explore factors affecting pitch. Create a laughing chicken to investigate amplification. Build your own pan flute and perform in a classroom orchestra.

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE FIVE Adventures In The Bone Zone Body Works Clued In To Forensic Science SI C4-7 R LS R SI C5-6 Join this ecological adventure Join us on a journey around Become a forensic scientist, WORKSHOPS and dissect an owl pellet. Delve the human body to explore its collecting and examining crime into the diet and digestion of many complexities. Assemble scene clues. Analyze a ransom Book online and find our an owl as you discover what a urinary system to filter note by ink chromatography booking terms, conditions they eat for breakfast. Use simulated plasma. Build a and handwriting. Take finger magnifiers to sort and identify model of the respiratory and shoe prints, comparing and cancellation policy at bones and assemble a rodent system. Test your reflexes and them to the crime scene. scientistsinschool.ca skeleton. Examine and compare measure your vital capacity. Run chemical analyses on a variety of mammalian skulls Follow a cell as it travels mysterious powders and Maximum 30 students/workshop to determine species. through a large-scale model discover how to analyze of the heart. fibre and soil samples.

Energy: The Power To Change NEW! Fractions In Action Math Builders: Math From ESS R M C4-5 The Ground Up M C5-6 Be inspired to embrace energy Puzzle through fraction Create and promote your conservation. Discover where games, learning to read and company to win a lucrative energy comes from, the forms compare fractions. Challenge building contract. Determining of energy and how energy is yourself with our fractions precise measurements and transferred or transformed. Jeopardy game. Battle it calculations of area and Investigate how to launch a ping out in a Fractions War. Use perimeter, choosing building pong ball into space. Explore manipulatives to explore materials, and working as a how changing your light bulbs mixed numbers and improper team will support the winning and adding insulation can save fractions. Apply your new skills bid. Build a model strong energy. Experiment with solar to follow a recipe and drink the enough to withstand an panels and use one to play a resulting concoction. unnatural disaster. tune.

May The Force Be With You Microscopy: More Than SM R Meets The Eye SI C1-6 V Join our engineering team to Use microscopes to explore discover how structures resist the world of the small and the internal and external forces mighty. Activities are geared acting upon them. Investigate to each grade and may include centre of gravity and its effect on the exploration of hitchhiker structural stability. Learn about seeds, insect parts and plant the importance of a foundation and animal cells. Meet some of and other design features the weird and wonderful living necessary for stable structures. creatures found in pond water. Design, build and test a freestanding structure.

What In The World Is Matter? ME R Explore solids, liquids, gases and changes in state as detectives seeking clues to the mysteries of matter. Discover physical and chemical changes by carrying out some cool chemistry. Determine the identity of a mystery compound using your chemical intuition, some crafty experimentation and clues from this chemical adventure.

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE SIX Adventures In The Bone Zone Air And Flight Celestial Sleuths SI C4-7 R SM R ESS R Join this ecological adventure Discover the properties of air Explore the solar system and WORKSHOPS and dissect an owl pellet. Delve and the principles of flight by the bodies within it to finally into the diet and digestion of levitating a ping pong ball. Find understand the real definition Book online and find our an owl as you discover what the best wing design and angle of “space”. Orbit through the booking terms, conditions they eat for breakfast. Use of attack for liftoff. Discover the phases of the moon and reflect magnifiers to sort and identify correct mechanics of propeller on the changes we see from and cancellation policy at bones and assemble a rodent construction. Build your own Earth. Discover the challenges scientistsinschool.ca skeleton. Examine and compare plane and investigate factors astronauts face in space and a variety of mammalian skulls affecting the direction and build your own working model Maximum 30 students/workshop to determine species. speed of flight. of the Canadarm End Effector.

Classy Critters Clued In To Forensic Science Electricity: Get Charged LS SI C5-6 ME R Become a taxonomist, classify Become a forensic scientist, Explore the nature of and create order from the collecting and examining crime electricity, its generation vast diversity of living things. scene clues. Analyze a ransom and use. Investigate static Examine real preserved note by ink chromatography electricity through the use of specimens for adaptations that and handwriting. Take finger an electroscope. Design and help them survive and discover and shoe prints, comparing build circuits to learn how a wildlife on a smaller scale. them to the crime scene. Run house is wired. Test conductors, Explore important connections chemical analysis on mysterious insulators and switches. Explore between humans, ecosystems powders and discover how to electromagnets, simple motors invaders and other impacts on analyze fibre and soil samples. and use your own energy to biodiversity. power a generator.

Math Builders: Math From Microscopy: More Than The Ground Up M C5-6 Meets The Eye SI C1-6 V Create and promote your Use microscopes to explore company to win a lucrative the world of the small and building contract. Determining mighty. Activities are geared precise measurements and to each grade and may include calculations of area and the exploration of hitchhiker perimeter, choosing building seeds, insect parts and plant materials, and working as a and animal cells. Meet some of team will support the winning the weird and wonderful living bid. Build a model strong creatures found in pond water. enough to withstand an unnatural disaster.

“I suggested a career in engineering to one student and he had already considered it during the workshop!”

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE SEVEN Adventures In The Bone Zone Battles In The Tropical Close Encounters Of A SI C4-7 R Rainforest LS Chemical Kind ME R Join this ecological adventure Travel around the world and Become a chemist and explore WORKSHOPS and dissect an owl pellet. Delve explore the tropical rainforest. pure substances and mixtures. into the diet and digestion of Make a rubber ball, experiment Make a sweet solution and Book online and find our an owl as you discover what with adaptations of rainforest observe the Tyndall effect. booking terms, conditions they eat for breakfast. Use plants and discover the Investigate methods to and cancellation policy at magnifiers to sort and identify importance of each creature separate a mechanical mixture bones and assemble a rodent while building a rainforest food and identify some industrial scientistsinschool.ca skeleton. Examine and compare web. applications of these processes. a variety of mammalian skulls Test how to clean up an oil spill Maximum 30 students/workshop to determine species. in the most environmentally friendly way.

Engineering Challenges Hot Stuff! SM R ESS R Discover the secrets of structural Discover the secret workings strength and stability. Design and behind a candle-powered putt- build a functioning cantilever able putt boat. Investigate if heat is to withstand a substantial load. generated by moving molecules Investigate how to fortify bridges. and how heat moves through Join a class-wide challenge to build space, solids and liquids. Use a newspaper and tape truss bridge this information to analyze resistant to static and dynamic how conduction, convection loads and internal forces. and radiation work together to propel the putt-putt boats.

“In my 39 years of teaching, I have never had such a worthwhile experience brought to my students directly in the classroom!”

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required GRADE EIGHT Cell Explorers: Investigating Cell Groundwater Investigations Fluid Power Structure And Function LS R ESS R ME Become a cell biologist Discover nature’s filtration Explore fluids and their WORKSHOPS and master how to use a system while exploring application in mechanical compound microscope. groundwater processes. Test systems. Study density to Book online and find our Examine the organization and for pollutants such as salt, determine the composition of booking terms, conditions interdependence of animal petroleum and fertilizers and mystery cubes. Investigate the and human body cells. Make discover their possible sources. relative density of a variety of and cancellation policy at wet mounts of plant cells Examine local watersheds to liquids. Move loads with dump scientistsinschool.ca and compare their structure. choose the best site for your trucks to compare hydraulic and Get absorbed in the study of next home. Learn hands-on pneumatic systems. Build and Maximum 30 students/workshop osmosis and explore pond how to become stewards of operate models of hydraulic water samples for living our water systems and the equipment including a robotic organisms. importance of maintaining our arm. water supply.

Systems At Work SM Discover the work done by simple machines, how they create mechanical advantage, and how they can be used to overcome obstacles. Explore inclined planes, wheels, levers and pulleys. Analyze how friction affects mechanical advantage. Investigate how simple machines can be combined to create complex systems used in building communities and disaster relief.

“A number of times throughout the morning, I drew back just to enjoy watching how engaged the students were.”

C: Combined Grade Content ESS: Earth and Space Systems LS: Life Systems M: Mathematics ME: Matter and Energy R: Follow-up Teacher Resources SI: Special Interest SM: Structures and Mechanisms V: Volunteers Required Book Your Scientists in School Workshop Today! Our goal in every community is to become part of the educational fabric, where children become scientists in school in Kindergarten and experience workshops throughout their elementary years. We work with teachers, educators and school boards to ensure that our program aligns with curriculum, student and educator needs. With over two million face time hours of investigation each year, we know our program makes a lasting impression. Often, young adults who had the program as kids will share details of their favourite workshops and proclaim that “the days the scientists came were the best days of the whole year!” 

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