Curriculum Connections
Inject nature into the Ontario math and science curriculum
Explore our nature science and math units, plus enhancement activities to help strength concepts.
Science Units - All updated to the 2022 Ontario Science Curriculum!
Ontario curriculum covered for reporting purposes with the exception of coding and indigenous perspectives.
Assessments are through hands on activities and challenges (standard tests and rubrics not included - rubrics are not included as each educator will have different criteria they are looking for in assessments)
Each science unit includes pdf instructions for the facilitator to be able to complete between 3-11 activities / sections which could include, discussions, research projects, hands-on activities, art, dramatic teaching, and more.
All relevant handouts and digital resources (where applicable) included.
Available for grades 1 through 8.
Purchase a single science unit or all 4 units for a grade.
Science units are available starting at $15
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Additional Details
These science units were written by a retired teacher and edited by an environmental scientist.
Each unit is structured so that you, as a teacher, can read the paragraph instructions to obtain all required knowledge (background knowledge and process for facilitation) in order to complete the activity
Each activity is separated by a header and includes paragraph style instructions with relevant handouts.
Please click buttons to see one activity taken directly from the specified science unit - The example activities show you how blue marble provides instructions for you as the teacher. We ensure that activities cover what you need for each unit, but keep in mind that these units are different, it is not your standard unit, it is exciting, inclusive, and nature based.
Each unit includes a list of required materials (check out the store to see lists prior to purchasing)
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Needs and Characteristics of Living Things
Ziyo, your imaginary friend, needs a place to live. Can you ask your learners to help? Make sure that Ziyo has air, water, food, and shelter! Maybe Ziyo would like some plants and a few animal friends? Build and study Ziyo’s web of life with these five sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Ask your learners to sit very still and stop using energy. Impossible! After looking at these three sections around the sun and everyday energy, covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas, your learners will know that humans use energy all the time!
Everyday Materials, Objects, and Structures
How can your learners build a framework structure? What materials will they use and how will they use them? Examine frameworks, materials, function and purpose, and nature made versus human made with these four sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
How many season-cycles old are your learners? Find out after investigating the seasons and how day and night work with these four sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas. After gaining this knowledge, challenge your learners to create a plant or animal that changes with each season!
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Properties of Liquids and Solids
After an independent investigation of water, discussions of the characteristics of liquids and solids, and the impact of changing states, guide your learners through the scientific inquiry process to investigate both buoyancy and mixing of liquids and solids. These six sections cover the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Is a fish an animal? Yes, it is. After exploring and examining characteristics of animals, your learners are asked to create their own imaginary animal, specifying its life cycle, adaptations, and how animals (including humans) impact each other. Look at animal characteristics and life cycles with the provided materials, and ask your learners to take a stand on an animal related issue in these six sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Air and Water in the Environment
What is air? What is water? Why are these two so important in our environment and to humans? Get your learners to answer these questions by examining air, water, the water cycle, general and personal water uses, and by looking at an issue from different points of view with these six sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Ziyo, your imaginary friend, needs help to cross a stream! Can your learners help Ziyo by building a simple machine using common materials? Don’t worry, after investigating types of movements and simple machines, your learners will definitely be able to help. These five engaging sections cover the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
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Can your learners build a nest as good as a bird? How about a paper wasp nest? After investigating material types and strengths, the forces impacting structures, and the stability of structures, your learners will have the opportunity to build their own shelters. Engage your learners around strong and stable structures with these seven sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Can your learners succeed at using or overcoming magnetism, muscular forces, electrostatic force, gravity, and wind to complete a maze, win at tug of war, tame wild static hair, slow a rolling marble, and design a sail boat? Explore forces causing movement with these seven sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Challenge your learners to mine soil by looking at its different components, then engage your learners with activities to learn why soil is important, differences between soils, and how to improve soil with composting. Engage your learners with these five soil sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Can your learners complete the Seek Challenge finding different plant parts and observing different characteristics? After completing these seven sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas, your learners will have knowledge of seed germination, plant needs and interrelationships, while observed local plants.
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Your learners are now members of the Knowledgeable Consulting Company, that has been hired by the chief City Planner, you, to look at a proposal to build homes from the Forever Homes developers. Engage your learners through habitat research, including food webs, plant and animal adaptation and, land use effects, plus human benefits and concerns before making a final recommendation. The seven steps required of the Knowledgeable Consulting Company cover the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Oh no! Your learners have been stranded on an almost deserted island! Fortunately, they have also discovered a container of pulleys and gears. Can they survive by figuring out how pulley and gear systems work to save their food from the local animals, get energy by tapping a tree, and how to signal for help? Engage your students with these five sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Can your learners determine if a tree that falls in the forest makes sound or figure out why fireflies light up? Examine light and sound properties, impacts on society, and their connection in nature with these eight sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas. Engage your learners with games, independent experiments to prove properties, and the creation of a light or sound device, such as a musical instrument or kaleidoscope.
Rocks, Minerals, and Geological Processes
Explore rocks and minerals with these five interactive, thought provoking sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas. Engage your learners with investigations of rocks they have found, mimicking the rock cycle, and exploring human uses of rocks and their impacts.
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Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms
Your learners are avid birders who are part of research team that has gone to an almost deserted island in search of the rare pink-footed goose. Expecting a long stay on the island, your learners must set up shelters, construct observation towers, effortlessly transport equipment between locations, and protect themselves from the evil, nut-throwing raven. Your learners will examine internal and external forces acting on structures and mechanisms with these six sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas, all while looking for that pink-footed goose.
Properties of and Changes in Matter
Examine the properties of and changes in matter as your learners attempt to cure you of a very contagious infection, called SOLIGA, while learning about solids, liquids, and gases. Engage your learners with discussions and investigations of how matter is made, a true story discussion of recycling, as well as cleaning up an oil spill, with these six sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Just like an ecosystem, human bodies are complex collection of organ systems with inter-relationships, as shown through the creation of an organ web! Examine and understand how important it is to take care of the body with these eight sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas. Engage your learners with activities, research, and the construction of an organ and/or organ system model, plus creating a personal plan to stay healthy.
Conservation of Energy and Resources
Examine conservation of energy and resources by looking at natural energy types, renewable and non-renewable energy, and the transformation of energy with these six sections covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas. Engage your learners with research, investigations, and the creation of an original energy transformation game.
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Explore flight with your learners by using activities to investigate the four forces of flight, but also how unbalanced forces can provide control. Contradictory right? But critical when trying to go where you want … instead of just where the wind takes you. In this science unit, you will take your learners through the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas with six sections! Examine forces, observe seeds and birds in flight, and develop a new flying creature!
Investigate why there is so much diversity on the Earth. The importance of biodiversity is emphasized with fun and exaggerated ‘What If?’ questions. Explore biodiversity further with local exploration of environments, learning about the classification of living things, and discussing invasive species while covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas. Are humans invasive? Engage your learners with these seven sections and a debate about a local issue.
Look to the stars while investigating space with your learners! But, don’t forget that our own Earth is part of space. In this science unit covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas, your learners will become members of ALIEN, an organization for All Living Identities Even Non-humans! As ALIENs your learners will be fascinated with space, investigate model demonstrations, explore our planets, discuss space technologies, understand Canadian space contributions, and answer their own burning space questions with these seven sections!
Electrical Phenomena, Energy, and Devices
As consultants for Energy Alternative Research Leaders (EARL), your learners have been hired by the Mayor, you, of the new town of Blue Marble to research and decide on the best power source for supplying the town with electricity. The Mayor needs some help understanding static and current electricity, circuits, insulators and conductors, electricity generation, and some background history of electricity, before making the decision of which power source to use. Your learners will assist the Mayor in understanding through clear, professional demonstrations and presentations with this nine-step investigation covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
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Form, Function, and Design of Structures
Congratulations to your learners who have been accepted into the Builder - Level 7 course! This very detailed, exacting, and fun Builder’s Course is led by an amazing professional (you). Students in the Builder’s Course will have to complete 15 levels including understanding structure forms, ergonomic design, forces, centre of gravity, and more, culminating with a large-scale final examination build. At the completion of this course, your learners will have also covered the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
It really is hot out there and in here, and everywhere! Amaze your students with demonstrations and investigations into the transfer of heat with conduction, convection, and radiation, all so that they can toast marshmallows with solar heat and save a new species, by designing an insulated incubator. These nine sections investigate heat in the environment, covering the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Interactions in the Environment
Challenge your learners to take a close look at their local ecosystem, finding the interactions between all things and thinking about how different events can affect that balance. How do humans fit into that ecosystem? How have we changed it? Introduce your learners to the 7 Rs of sustainability and ask them to use their knowledge to create their own mini ecosystems. These nine sections cover the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
Challenge your students to sort bird seed! Too easy? Have them clean swamp water after investigating separating methods for mixtures. Understanding pure substances and mixtures from particle theory to solubility, will allow your learners to discuss the impacts of some common substances and mixtures on our environment. These seven sections cover the Ontario curriculum expectations and big ideas.
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Cells are the basis of all life! Fascinate your learners with activities about the amazing life of cells and debate which is better: the plant or the animal cell. Learn the proper handling of microscopes and preparing slides, solve unique cell questions posed by your learners, and understand diffusion with a physical activity. These nine sections will engage your learners at the cellular level!
Our world is a system made up of more systems made up of other systems. Engage your learners in the world of systems in action by having them create their own new world, including 14 different systems, such as waste systems, food systems, and school systems. Of course, a user manual will be needed for the new inhabitants of this new world. Focus on a new inhabitant, Zoyo, to help them figure out work and mechanical advantage.
As the owner of Blue Marble Rescue, you must hire a company of fluid mechanic experts to recover a treasure chest at the bottom of a lake. The hiring process you have developed requires each company to demonstrate their fluid mechanic knowledge through eight requirement stages, from viscosity, density, buoyancy, to having an oil spill recovering plan, before they are asked to demonstrate how they would recover the treasure chest.
Water systems are very complex, as well as being very important. Your learners will locate the world's water systems, discuss watersheds, water tables, and atmospheric effects of water bodies, plus experiment with why glaciers are changing and look at how municipal water systems work. After tracking their personal water consumption, your learners will create a plan to change and see how scientists and innovators are helping to improve the global water systems. These 11 sections also include delving into media pieces for sensationalism and using that knowledge to bring attention to a local water issue.
These math units will help you up your math game and engage students in hands-on, real life inspired math fun
Math Units
Make math fun for students and painless for teachers with our math units and activities that include a nature twist. All math units are connected to the Ontario Math Curriculum.
All expectations for Ontario curriculum covered for reporting purposes.
Assessments are through hands on activities and challenges (standard tests and rubrics not included)
Each math unit includes pdf instructions and all relevant handouts and digital resources
Available for grades 1 through 8
Currently available, Financial literacy units ($15), Business Project ($20), and math patterning enhancement activities ($6)
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Inviting your learners to observe natural patterns in their own space, including colour, shape, and texture, will introduce the beauty of math all around them. Creating patterns using their own movements through nature and then challenging other learners to extend the patterns, plus observing up close patterns, will help your learners to see the beauty and complex patterns of nature around them.
Look at coins and small bank notes in detail to help your learners become familiar with Canadian money and their values. Play two games to deepen this understanding of money - the Couch Game to help save an abandoned baby bird and the Piggy Bank Game to donate money to help an injured turtle, by naming, valuing, and counting coins and bank notes.
Activities : Exploring Coins, Counting Coins, Couch Game, Exploring Bank Notes, Counting Bank Notes, Piggy Bank Game, Follow Up Activity
Look at coins and small bank notes in detail to help your learners become familiar with Canadian money and their values. Play two games to deepen this understanding of money by naming, valuing, and counting coins up to $2 and bank notes up to $200 - the Couch Game to help save an abandoned baby bird and the Piggy Bank Game to donate money to help an injured turtle.
Activities : Exploring Coins, Counting Coins, Couch Game, Exploring Bank Notes, Counting Bank Notes, Piggy Bank Game, Follow Up Activity
Take a trip (in your imagination) to a conservation area where your learners must pay the entrance fee, buy bird seed for the chickadees, get a snack, and rent equipment. This scenario, with many options, provides many opportunities for your learners to make change and understand how cash transactions work.
Activities : Review of Coins and Bank Notes, Visiting a Conservation Area, Follow Up Activity
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Inviting your learners to observe natural patterns in their own space, including colour, shape, and texture, will introduce the beauty of math all around them. Creating patterns using their own movements through nature and then challenging other learners to extend the patterns, plus observing up close patterns, will help your learners to see the beauty and complex patterns of nature around them.
Meet Chippy, Slither, Yote, and Blue, who are great examples of savers, spenders, investors, and donators. With these characters, your learners will explore purchasing food items and determining which character they are like financially. Exploring rather an item is a good deal or not will help your learners to make informed financial decisions for themselves.
Activities : The Big Food Sale Event, Financial Basics, Money Basics, Good Deal or Bad
Your learners will be able to make more informed financial decisions and understand our Canadian money system more through playing a payment game, a shopping experience, including comparing items using unit rates, and look at budgeting.
Activities : Payment Game, Shopping Time, Youth Budgets, Adult Budgets, Good Deal Which?, Taxes Taxes Taxes
Through hands on activities and planning for a new business, your learners will understand different payment methods advantages and disadvantages, financial goals, and how money flows from banks, credit cards, and loans. After which, your students will be able to create a savings financial plan for something they want.
Activities : Which is Best?, Financial Goals or Can I Get That?, Fees - What Fees?
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math and business by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge of business in order to know when to tap the sugar maple trees, how many taps a tree can take, how much sap need to make 1 L of syrup, and how much to sell products for. Now it’s your learner’s turn! Use newly obtained knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge in math in order to know how many taps a tree can take and how much sap they need to make 1 L of syrup. Now it’s your learners turn! Use their new knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
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Explore, create, then market businesses with your learners in this three module business project. Includes details for completing all 3 modules; notes from Cindy about historical business project successes; printable contracts and patent application sheets.
Inviting your learners to observe natural patterns in their own space, including colour, shape, and texture, will introduce the beauty of math all around them. Creating patterns using their own movements through nature and then challenging other learners to extend the patterns, plus observing up close patterns, will help your learners to see the beauty and complex patterns of nature around them.
Travelling the world to see natural sites, deciding if an item is a good buy or not, and helping to budget for a dream trip will provide your learners with the opportunities to learn about making informed financial decisions. Discussions, games, comparisons, research, and making financial decisions will help learners increase their knowledge.
Activities : A Trip Around the World - How Will I pay?, Who Says That's Good?, Budgets are Good, Make Money Doing Nothing, Which is Best?
Using real life situations for travel planning, budgeting, and savings will allow your learners to dive deeper into understanding how to make informed financial decisions. Your learners will compare currencies from different countries, budget for a character who wants to save for a big event, and after working through understanding interest and credit cards, figure out how to market a new product.
Activities : Exchange It Please, Planning Planning, Simple Interest? No Compound, Yazo's First Credit Card, Attracting Costumers
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math and business by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge of business in order to know when to tap the sugar maple trees, how many taps a tree can take, how much sap need to make 1 L of syrup, and how much to sell products for. Now it’s your learner’s turn! Use newly obtained knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge in math in order to know how many taps a tree can take and how much sap they need to make 1 L of syrup. Now it’s your learners turn! Use their new knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Guided activities to inject nature into your Ontario curriculum and trick your students into learning through fun!
Ontario Curriculum Enhancements
Immerse your learners in fun, hands-on, nature inspired activities that engage them in the Ontario curriculum. Select from a long list of topics to help supplement your student’s / child’s lessons.
Enhancement activities are meant to supplement classroom teachings by providing experiential learning opportunities and unique ideas to help learners retain information.
Each enhancement activity includes simple to facilitate pdf instructions and all required handouts
Assessments, tests, and rubrics not included
Available for Kindergarten through Grade 12
Enhancement activities range from $6 - $20 (click the title of each enhancement for more details)
Bonus: some enhancement activities include FREE instructional videos
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Curriculum: Music
There are so many sounds around us. It might be the traffic and other human noises that we are most used to, but if you go out into nature, away from society you may be surprised how loud nature is! In this experience we encourage learners to explore what natural sounds there are, how to recreate them, and discuss how the sounds are made.
Curriculum: Life Systems
Pollinating is important to our survival, as well as the survival of the natural world. We depend on pollination, and thus those that do the pollinating. Investigate with your learners how pollination works and who the pollinators are, through hands-on activities and discussions.
Curriculum: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things & Biodiversity
Skunks are wonderfully cute creatures that have great similarities to other animals we consider pets. So why hasn’t the skunk been domesticated? In this exploration your learners will learn about skunks and compare them to common pets. Further engage your learners by trying to mimic a skunk’s spray ability.
Curriculum: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things & Biodiversity
Sprouting is amazing magic! Watching seeds turn to edible sprouts, over a five-day period, shows the amazing power and wonder of plants. In this exploration, your learners will explore what plants need to grow and experience the wonder of sprouting edible seeds.
Inviting your learners to observe natural patterns in their own space, including colour, shape, and texture, will introduce the beauty of math all around them. Creating patterns using their own movements through nature and then challenging other learners to extend the patterns, plus observing up close patterns, will help your learners to see the beauty and complex patterns of nature around them.
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Curriculum: Biodiversity & Sustainable Ecosystems
Biodiversity changes from place to place. This experience gets your learners critically thinking about how biodiverse an ecosystem is based on images and challenges them to rank those images from least to most diverse. Learners are encouraged to use debate to convince others that their order is correct.
Curriculum: Understanding Life Systems
Science is an inexact art. That may sound contradictory and confusing, but even what we know from science is a guess, a very educated guess, but a guess. Science, like the study of biology, relies on relationships and patterns that we see and that we can describe in mathematics. These relationships and mathematics allow us to sample or understand a small component of biology and extend what we know to a larger system. In this experience, learners will be biologists trying to determine the population size of a specific species, like the common grey squirrel. Learners will investigate how biologists can determine the population size without actually counting all the individuals in a population.
Curriculum: Critical Thinking & Scientific Inquiry
Get your learners thinking about the natural world around them by inspiring them to be curious about why nature is the way it is. By observing, asking questions, hypothesizing, and researching, learners will learn more about something in nature that intrigues them.
Curriculum: Math
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math and business by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge of business in order to know when to tap the sugar maple trees, how many taps a tree can take, how much sap need to make 1 L of syrup, and how much to sell products for. Now it’s your learner’s turn! Use newly obtained knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Curriculum: Math
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge in math in order to know how many taps a tree can take and how much sap they need to make 1 L of syrup. Now it’s your learners turn! Use their new knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Curriculum: Music
There are so many sounds around us. It might be the traffic and other human noises that we are most used to, but if you go out into nature, away from society you may be surprised how loud nature is! In this experience we encourage learners to explore what natural sounds there are, how to recreate them, and discuss how the sounds are made.
Curriculum: Earth and Space Systems, Matter and Energy
Science is moving towards a concept called ‘one water’ as all the forms of water move seamlessly between places. This means we must consider the entire water cycle when thinking about water of any kind. This activity focuses on how interconnected the water cycle is through an interactive example where learners follow the path of a single water particle. Water can take on many forms, be found many places, and experience many processes of change. Historically, different water systems, such as rivers and groundwater, have been studied and considered separately, but these systems are interconnected.
Curriculum: Life Systems
Pollinating is important to our survival, as well as the survival of the natural world. We depend on pollination, and thus those that do the pollinating. Investigate with your learners how pollination works and who the pollinators are, through hands-on activities and discussions.
Curriculum: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things & Biodiversity
Skunks are wonderfully cute creatures that have great similarities to other animals we consider pets. So why hasn’t the skunk been domesticated? In this exploration your learners will learn about skunks and compare them to common pets. Further engage your learners by trying to mimic a skunk’s spray ability.
Curriculum: Needs and Characteristics of Living Things & Biodiversity
Sprouting is amazing magic! Watching seeds turn to edible sprouts, over a five-day period, shows the amazing power and wonder of plants. In this exploration, your learners will explore what plants need to grow and experience the wonder of sprouting edible seeds.
Curriculum: Space
Explore the relationship between the Sun and Earth to understand why summer days are longer. Use scientific inquiry to get your learners to investigate how and why day lengths change throughout the year with a simple but fun activity.
Inviting your learners to observe natural patterns in their own space, including colour, shape, and texture, will introduce the beauty of math all around them. Creating patterns using their own movements through nature and then challenging other learners to extend the patterns, plus observing up close patterns, will help your learners to see the beauty and complex patterns of nature around them.
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Business Project ($20)
Explore, create, then market businesses with your learners in this three module business project.
Module 1 - teach your learners about business and business sustainability
Module 2 - engage your learners in the creative process of creating a business
Module 3 - Real life experience
Curriculum: Biodiversity & Sustainable Ecosystems
Biodiversity changes from place to place. This experience gets your learners critically thinking about how biodiverse an ecosystem is based on images and challenges them to rank those images from least to most diverse. Learners are encouraged to use debate to convince others that their order is correct.
Curriculum: Understanding Life Systems
Science is an inexact art. That may sound contradictory and confusing, but even what we know from science is a guess, a very educated guess, but a guess. Science, like the study of biology, relies on relationships and patterns that we see and that we can describe in mathematics. These relationships and mathematics allow us to sample or understand a small component of biology and extend what we know to a larger system. In this experience, learners will be biologists trying to determine the population size of a specific species, like the common grey squirrel. Learners will investigate how biologists can determine the population size without actually counting all the individuals in a population.
Curriculum: Critical Thinking & Scientific Inquiry
Get your learners thinking about the natural world around them by inspiring them to be curious about why nature is the way it is. By observing, asking questions, hypothesizing, and researching, learners will learn more about something in nature that intrigues them.
Curriculum: Math
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math and business by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge of business in order to know when to tap the sugar maple trees, how many taps a tree can take, how much sap need to make 1 L of syrup, and how much to sell products for. Now it’s your learner’s turn! Use newly obtained knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Curriculum: Math
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge in math in order to know how many taps a tree can take and how much sap they need to make 1 L of syrup. Now it’s your learners turn! Use their new knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Curriculum: Earth and Space Systems, Math
Get up close and personal with weather data to discover natural trends, patterns, and relationships. What will you find? Does the time range of the data matter? Get your learners to investigate, brainstorm, and discuss with this real-life data analysis experience.
Curriculum: Music
There are so many sounds around us. It might be the traffic and other human noises that we are most used to, but if you go out into nature, away from society you may be surprised how loud nature is! In this experience we encourage learners to explore what natural sounds there are, how to recreate them, and discuss how the sounds are made.
Curriculum: Earth and Space Systems, Matter and Energy
Science is moving towards a concept called ‘one water’ as all the forms of water move seamlessly between places. This means we must consider the entire water cycle when thinking about water of any kind. This activity focuses on how interconnected the water cycle is through an interactive example where learners follow the path of a single water particle. Water can take on many forms, be found many places, and experience many processes of change. Historically, different water systems, such as rivers and groundwater, have been studied and considered separately, but these systems are interconnected.
Curriculum: Interactions, heat, and Water in the Environment
The snow survey experience is designed to inspire curiosity about the natural world around you. Specifically, learners are encouraged to contemplate snow, how it falls, where it accumulates, and factors that may affect where there is more (or less) snow.
Curriculum: Heat in the Environment
Weather is all around us, but it doesn’t just impact the air temperature outside and if it will rain or snow! Weather also impacts how we feel and how comfortable we are. With this experience your learners will experiment with different conditions to learn about how weather influences us!
Inviting your learners to observe natural patterns in their own space, including colour, shape, and texture, will introduce the beauty of math all around them. Creating patterns using their own movements through nature and then challenging other learners to extend the patterns, plus observing up close patterns, will help your learners to see the beauty and complex patterns of nature around them.
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Business Project ($20)
Explore, create, then market businesses with your learners in this three module business project.
Module 1 - teach your learners about business and business sustainability
Module 2 - engage your learners in the creative process of creating a business
Module 3 - Real life experience
Curriculum: Biodiversity & Sustainable Ecosystems
Biodiversity changes from place to place. This experience gets your learners critically thinking about how biodiverse an ecosystem is based on images and challenges them to rank those images from least to most diverse. Learners are encouraged to use debate to convince others that their order is correct.
Curriculum: Understanding Life Systems
Science is an inexact art. That may sound contradictory and confusing, but even what we know from science is a guess, a very educated guess, but a guess. Science, like the study of biology, relies on relationships and patterns that we see and that we can describe in mathematics. These relationships and mathematics allow us to sample or understand a small component of biology and extend what we know to a larger system. In this experience, learners will be biologists trying to determine the population size of a specific species, like the common grey squirrel. Learners will investigate how biologists can determine the population size without actually counting all the individuals in a population.
Curriculum: Critical Thinking & Scientific Inquiry
Get your learners thinking about the natural world around them by inspiring them to be curious about why nature is the way it is. By observing, asking questions, hypothesizing, and researching, learners will learn more about something in nature that intrigues them.
Curriculum: Math
Utilize Canadian’s natural love of maple syrup to inspire learning and find fun in math and business by becoming a maple syrup farmer. Being a maple syrup farmer requires knowledge of business in order to know when to tap the sugar maple trees, how many taps a tree can take, how much sap need to make 1 L of syrup, and how much to sell products for. Now it’s your learner’s turn! Use newly obtained knowledge to succeed at being a maple syrup farmer.
Curriculum: Earth and Space Systems, Math
Get up close and personal with weather data to discover natural trends, patterns, and relationships. What will you find? Does the time range of the data matter? Get your learners to investigate, brainstorm, and discuss with this real-life data analysis experience.
Curriculum: Interactions, heat, and Water in the Environment
The snow survey experience is designed to inspire curiosity about the natural world around you. Specifically, learners are encouraged to contemplate snow, how it falls, where it accumulates, and factors that may affect where there is more (or less) snow.