SCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL PROGRAM CATALOGUE 2019 Curriculum-aligned STEM workshops for Kindergarten to Grade 8 2020 NIAGARA REGION, HAMILTON-WENTWORTH, BRANTFORD, BRANT, HALDIMAND AND NORFOLK COUNTIES BOOK EARLY FOR BEST DATE AND TOPIC CHOICE! OUR ANNUAL IMPACT COLLABORATORS SCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL BY THE NUMBERS IN EDUCATION A non-profit offering experiential science, technology, (2018-2019: Organization-wide) engineering, math (STEM), and environmental workshops. 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* showed: Your inquisitive students, under the guidance of experts, will become scientists, engineers and environmental stewards while developing the global competency skills ¡ they need for tomorrow’s workforce. 700,000+ Children and youth inspired through workshops 97% Our workshops offer: of teachers said Scientists in School was very to extremely ~ An inquiry-based, real-world experience effective in encouraging students to make discoveries with plentiful scientific materials and equipment ~ Local presenters who are scientists, engineers, technologists and more q ~ The opportunity to highlight STEM careers, helping 24,872 92% students see themselves as future STEM professionals Half-day classroom workshops delivered of teachers said Scientists in School was very to extremely ~ Post-workshop extension packages to support your effective in enhancing students' understanding of lessons scientific principles ~ Fun and relevant investigations that build critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, communication, and problem-solving skills Õ 62,000+ 92% We work with teachers, school administrators and school Parent volunteers joined in the classroom boards to ensure that our program aligns with curriculum, of teachers said Scientists in School was very to extremely effective in enhancing students' interest in STEM student and educator needs. Like you, our goal is to inspire all children to realize their dreams, regardless of * Post-workshop survey completed by over 5,000 teachers their future aspirations. across Ontario and Alberta in 2019. 30 YEARS STRONG 2,000,000+ ABOUT Thank you! Together, we have shaped the curious Face time hours of investigation SCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL minds of ten million students since 1989. Our Mission is to ignite scientific curiosity in children so We’re here because of your dedication to that they question intelligently; learn through discovery; providing your students with life-shaping connect scientific knowledge to their world; are excited opportunities. Here’s to 30 more years of about science, technology, engineering and math; and exploration, discovery, and meaningful have their interest in careers in those fields piqued. collaboration. Let's continue to ensure that 10,000,000 all children believe they can dream big Young scientists across Ontario and Alberta Our Vision is for all young Canadians to be actively engaged and achieve the impossible. since 1989! in the seeing, doing and understanding of science. For information about our booking terms, conditions, and cancellation policy, please visit www.scientistsinschool.ca/policies/ "I think it dissolved. What do you think?" Simply Marvellous Machines KINDERGARTEN WORKSHOPS Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required Fee: $190.00 Have fun with physics at the playground. Figure Maximum 30 students/workshop out how gears work and have a bubble-making race. Make your own lever and solve a teeter-totter problem. Investigate wedges. Compare different Backyard Bugs shapes, weights and heights using inclined planes Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required – then create your own experiments. Explore with Hands-on encounter with live and preserved bugs! our special wheel and axle machines. Measure the Discover how to be an entomologist and identify an difference a machine makes! insect. Investigate how bugs behave, eat and see. Enact the life cycle of a butterfly. Create an insect There’s No Place Like Home! to take home. Learn concepts of camouflage and Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required symmetry with play-based activities. Follow the footprints and other clues to find the home of the mystery animal. Develop a respect “By engaging our students so deeply, I Can Be A Scientist for the environment by learning about a variety Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required they begin exploring the world of habitats. Become a bird and build a nest. Slither Become a working scientist. Dig for dinosaur around them and asking questions, like a snake or dig like a mole through your bones and make a fossil as a paleontologist. taking them on a path of discovery underground tunnel. Discover what creatures may Explore the weather as a meteorologist. Enter our that they pursue with passion. be living in a log near your home and why your tent to become an astronomer and create your own This is science at its very best!” home is salty if you live in the sea. constellation. Use a lab coat and safety goggles while being a chemist. Make a fish print and examine Winter Wonders ocean specimens as a marine biologist. Volunteers Required Delve into the wonderful world of winter and Magnet Magic For Little Explorers embrace the cold! Conduct cool experiments and Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required learn some frosty facts about how people adapt to Uncover the power of attraction by investigating winter. Explore how local animals survive Canada’s magnets. 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Life Systems | Combined Grade Content 1-2 Stretch your understanding of solids and liquids Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required while making Ooblek. Explore some of nature’s most unusual coverings in this unique, hands-on workshop that will ignite Never Say Ugh To A Bug the senses and inspire conversation. Students will Life Systems | Combined Grade Content 1-2 feel a variety of animal furs, conduct experiments Volunteers Required | Follow-up Teacher Resource with feathers, examine skin and scales up close and There’s much more than meets the eye in the world learn how shells and quills protect certain species. “Scientists in School is always active, of invertebrates! 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Looking At Liquids GRADE TWO WORKSHOPS Matter and Energy | Follow-up Teacher Resources Marvel as you explore the three states of matter, Fee: $190.00 change a liquid to a solid and then eat it. Discover Maximum 30 students/workshop why one ball floats while another sinks and how changing shapes can effect buoyancy. Explore how different states of matter interact while investigating Animal Coverings And Adaptations solubility. Take up the challenge to produce the Life Systems | Combined Grade Content 1-2 world’s biggest bubble. Follow-up Teacher Resources | Volunteers Required Explore some of nature’s most unusual coverings Math: It Counts in this unique, hands-on workshop that will ignite Mathematics | Combined Grade Content 2-3 the senses and inspire conversation. Students will Volunteers Required feel a variety of animal furs, conduct experiments Manage a bank account and earn money while with feathers, examine skin and scales up close and learning about place value, currency and Venn learn how shells and quills protect certain species. diagrams. Practice telling time on digital and Prepare to be amazed as we investigate animals and analogue clocks. Explore fractions in a classroom their incredible adaptations throughout the seasons. “Scientists in School is invaluable play. Try to trick your teacher as you reorganize yourselves by a mystery attribute.