By: Tom Darbyshire Who Grew My Soup? is about a character names Phineas Quinn who has a lot of questions about the vegetables in the soup his mom gave him for lunch. Phineas decides he won't eat any of it until he knows who grew the carrots, tomatoes beans, barley, corn and potatoes and who... Continue Reading →

This resource is an experiment presented by NASA and the Stanford Solar Centre that is simple for educators to implement in the classroom for early learners. The experiment is called "Experimenting with UV-sensitive Beads" and the learning objectives for the activity are as followed: The Sun produces light in all wavelengths, including invisible ultraviolet (UV).UV... Continue Reading →

Produced by the Jim Henson Company, Sid the Science Kid is a YouTube channel that teaches scientific principles to early learners through the character of Sid. The characters are created through the technology of virtual puppets similar to the style of the classic Muppets. Sid is a curious and inquisitive preschooler who uses scientific reasoning... Continue Reading →

Let's Talk Science is a national charitable organization that are dedicated to inspiring Canadian youth to develop skills and understandings to actively participate in the world around them. Idea Park, created by Let's Talk Science, is a collection of free educator resources and planning tools to support a skills based, co-constructed, learning environment through STEM... Continue Reading →

Engendering Success in STEM is a research group that has an ultimate goal of understanding and fighting the different ways that cultural biases stand in the way of creating inclusive environments for women and men in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). They have many different projects for the age groups of childhood, adolescence, university and... Continue Reading →

The Hour of Code is a resource to teach an introduction to computer science. The grassroots campaign is supported by over 200,000 educators world wide. It began as a one-hour introduction to computer science that was mean to show that anybody can learn the basics and to bring more participation into the field of computer... Continue Reading →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSR2ZG0yjP8 Bill Nye the Science Guy is a show produced by Disney/PBS and shown in many primary classrooms! I remember Bill Nye played in my own elementary years at school with that theme song still stuck in my head. Bill Nye is a science educator himself who began his career in science as a mechanical... Continue Reading →

Project H.O.M.E. (Helping our Mother Earth) is an Indigenous knowledge teaching resources that was started at St. Thomas Aquinas School through a mural project made by over 100 students. The mural brought so much attention that educators from across Canada began to ask about the project and so Project H.O.M.E. was launched! The websites goal... Continue Reading →

The Ways of Knowing Guide: Earth's Teachings and the 13 Moons Overview are both resources by the Toronto Zoo's Turtle Island Conservation. The Turtle Island Conservation partnership with the Toronto Zoo works with First Nations communities towards a mission to preserve cultural and natural landscapes. Their goal is also to preserve traditional knowledge of First... Continue Reading →

STEAM activities for kids is a Pinterest blog that posts STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) activities, and science experiments for children. The author of this Pinterest account is Schooling Active Monkeys which has their own individual website from Pinterest. On the STEAM activities for kids Pinterest... Continue Reading →