Students investigate how to bend light waves to increase the size of an image.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Energy in Our Lives; Grade 2 - Movement.

Students will learn about environmental engineering, what biodegradable and environmentally friendly means, and what composting is.

Students will about how the binary number system works.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 – Soils in the Environment; Grade 5 – Conservation of Energy and Resources.

Students will create a Ferris wheel using knowledge of engineering design and understandings of gravity, force, and structure.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 – Form and Function.

Students will investigate, through experimentation, the properties of various materials.

Students will investigate, through experimentation, interactions that occur as a result of mixing and/or dissolving liquids and solids.

Students will investigate forces that cause an object to start moving, stop moving, or change direction.

Students will use technological problem-solving skills and knowledge acquired from previous investigations.

Students will use technological problem-solving skills to design, build, and test a device that transforms one form of energy into another.

Students wil solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing efficient code, including code that involves conditional statements and other control structures.

Students will solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing efficient code, including code that involves events influenced by a defined count.

Students will discuss crystallization

Students will discuss the creation of geodes

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures; Grade 2 – Properties of Liquids and Solids

Students will identify indicators of chemical change.

Students will discuss states of matter to learn about solids, liquids, and gases.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 4 – Properties of and Changes in Matter

Students will expand their knowledge about the different kinds of energy.

Students will discuss the law of conservation of energy.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6 – Flight; Grade 7 – Form and Function; Grade 8 - Systems in Action

Students will expand explore structures and the importance of material properties

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 - Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures; Grade 2 - Movement

Students will act as civil engineers as they design and build irrigation systems to withstand the forces of flowing water.

Students will understand that some shapes increase a building’s stability.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 –Strong and Stable Structures, Forces Causing Movement; Grade 5- Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms.

Students will learn about the many different roles of an Environmental Engineer.

Students will learn about different ways to incorporate different methods of waste treatment into their daily lives.

Students will learn about a new style of art - Mosaics

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 – Interactions in the Environment

Students will consider what energy is and how it is conserved while create a toy.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1- Energy in Our Lives; Grade 2 – Movement

Students will explore static electricity as they try to create their own charge!

Curriculum Connections: Grade 4 -Light and Sound; Grade 5 –Properties of and Changes in Matter.

Students will consider how pure substances and mixtures are used in our everyday lives!

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 -Pure Substances and Mixtures.

Students will learn about scientific exploration.

Students will be introduced to types of fossils and their characteristics.

Understanding how fossils are formed and why they are important.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Needs and Characteristics of Living Things and Materials.

Students will learn about chromatography.

Students will learn about chemical and physical changes.

Students will Investigate the applications of chromatography.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 5: Properties and Changes in Matter

Students will learn about toxic waste.

Students will consider waste removal strategies.

Students will Investigate the importance of new waste management technologies.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6: Biodiversity; Grade 7: Interactions in the Environment

Students will learn about Mechanical Engineering and the conservation of energy.

Students will explore different types of energy (e.g. potential and kinetic energy).

Curriculum Connections: Students will develop critical and creative thinking skills with the application of those skills to Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures as well as Movements as recommended in the Ontario Science and Technology curriculum.

Students will explore software & electrical engineering.

Students will Learning about basic coding terms.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 - Forces Causing Movement; Grade 4- Light and Sound; Grade 5-Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms.

The purpose of this project is to introduce drag-and-drop coding using Microbit.

Students will learn about software engineering.

Students will learn about coding terms (variables, if-statements, arrays, loops, etc.)

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6 - Electricity and Electrical Devices, Grade 7 - Form and Function, Grade 8 - Systems in Action.

To understand different properties of solids, liquids, and gases.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 2 – Properties of Liquids and Solids.

To investigate how temperature affects the volume of a liquid.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 5 – Properties and Changes in Matter.

Students will investigate forces and use that knowledge in building a zipline.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 – Form and Function; Grade 8 – Systems in Action.