Students will become detectives and investigate a mystery creature (psst – the Red Wiggler worm!) Learn what it means to be a living thing and how different animals compare. This interactive workshop gives learners a glimpse into the life of a composting worm and is followed up with a hands-on craft to create their very own pet worm.

45-minutes

Considering a variety of materials, learners are challenged to work together to design and build a structure that will weather an oncoming storm! Learners are encouraged to consider the needs of living things and flex their problem-solving skills to keep the inhabitant, safe, dry, and warm. This fun and fast-paced workshop brings creativity, innovation and critical thinking to life!

45-minutes

Learn what it’s like to live like a worm! Once upon a Worm takes a dive into the life of a Red Wiggler to learn about their senses and what they need to grow, survive, and thrive in their environment. Guided by our science educators, students will work in small groups to observe, and if comfortable, handle our live Red Wiggler worms.

45-minutes

How can we make something move? How should we join materials together? What simple machines are essential for rolling and how do they work? Wheely Moving challenges students to complete two engineering tests tiered to their grade level, while also considering forces at play. This fast-paced motion-packed workshop encourages students to think about purpose and design as they build and test their own car.

1-hour

Raise your sails to explore water displacement and shipbuilding. Grade 3 Bluenosers’ will race to complete engineering and design challenges in this workshop. Is your boat built for speed or built to haul and more importantly built to float?

45-minutes

Make some noise exploring the science of sound. Using everything from Slinkys to tuning forks to resonating bowls, students will learn how sounds travel as waves and are affected by different materials. Through hands-on, ears-on activities, students will learn to identify the transmitter, medium, and receiver needed to make a sound.

45-minutes

Use description: Rocks, minerals, and their uses come to life in this hands-on workshop. Students undergo hands-on investigations to classify real geological samples and gain insights into the dynamics of Earth’s crust through the rock cycle! 

45-minutes

Prepare to travel through time by revealing the hidden secrets of the past with the discovery of fossils. Learn the process of fossilization and the role weathering and erosion plays in mineralization. Students will make their own casts of real fossils to take home.

1-hour -Specialty Workshop

Solve a gardening challenge using simple machines! After our Science Educator introduces the many types of simple machines we use every day, students will put them to work, building a gardening plot and planting a crop.

45-minutes

Be prepared to get slimed as we explore the properties of matter. Students get messy as they conduct experiments on physical and chemical changes to matter. This 1-hour workshop has a fun take home for students.

1-hour

Join one of our educators for a visceral guided tour of the digestive tract and your breakfast’s journey through it. This 45-minute interactive show gets everyone participating in following food from the beginning to the very end of the digestive system.

45-minutes

Explore current static electricity in this jam-packed 1-hour workshop. Groups of students are challenged to hook up simple, series and parallel circuits on our circuit boards. Students get an up-close look at how positive static electricity can be with the Van de Graaff generator.

1-hour

Why can planes go up, up, and away? Learners will explore this question through discussing the four forces of flight, air pressure, and Bernoulli’s principle. Applying what they’ve learned, students are challenged to create their own flying object that will lift off in our vertical flight tunnel.

45-minutes

Take your tech education to the moon with Sphero RVRs! This workshop exposes students to simple computer coding and engineering concepts linked to space exploration. Groups will be challenged to think like astronauts and computer programmers, using block code and basic physics to complete a series of challenges in our mission to colonize the Moon!

1-hour; specialty workshop.

Things heat up in this workshop, which covers the three ways heat is transferred. Student groups are on a mission to battle heat loss and construct the most efficient home. Houses are tested with an infrared camera and design efforts are compared.

1-hour

Students will go microscopic as they learn about the differences between plant and animal cells through an introduction yto light microscopy. Students will learn how to prepare slides of plant tissue and will compare their results to the structures seen within animal cells (human cheek cells). Learners will get a basic introduction to cell structure and organelle function, lab drawings, and how to calculate microscope magnification. * Allergy precaution – onions are used in this workshop.*

1-hour; specialty workshop.

Shine up your lens and get ready to dissect a real eyeball. In this hands-on workshop, students will learn about the structure that makes vision possible, why we have a natural blind spot, and how the structures dissected compare to the features of human eyes. Depending on availability of specimens, eye used may be of the sheep, cow or pig variety.

1-hour; specialty workshop: must book 3-weeks in advance

Join us as we look up at the Halifax sky and discover what’s out in space and why the night is so dark. Prepare for take-off as we go on a 20-minute adventure to explore twinkling stars and our favourite neighbour, the Moon!

20-minutes

Explore the changes happening all around you, as the sun goes down and the stars come out! Join us as we find patterns in the sky, learn about what creates a day and the seasons, and how these cycles affect other living things and our environment.

30-minutes

Follow characters from Sesame Street as they take an imaginary trip to the Moon, where they discover how different it is from Earth.

30-minutes

Witness the outstanding variety of stars and peer into their secret lives.

30-minutes

Unearth the science behind the auroras, and learn about mankind’s quest to find and understand this incredible phenomenon.

30-minutes

Take a roller coaster ride from the moon through our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond.

30-minutes

Discover how ice shapes the landscape and systems on other planets and moons in our Solar System.

25-minutes

Discover the secrets of our star, the sun, and experience never-before-seen images of the Sun’s violent surface.

30-minutes

Immerse yourself in ground-breaking discoveries from the past 5 years of space exploration.

30-minutes

Magnetism is all around, and you’ll discover how this powerful, misunderstood force shields oceans from solar winds and how scientists trying to understand the connection between the Earth and the Sun.

30-minutes