Try the Paper Helicopters activity described in the session as a post-visit exploration with your students!
Here is the pre visit activity in case you missed it, and more Forces-related resources!
Thank you for exploring nature and climate action with us in this program. Download the Post-workshop Teacher Resources to continue the adventure and discovery (includes English and French resources).
Try our Classroom Activity: The Swirls Around Us.
This workshop develops students' ideas around what matter is and how matter can change. Through hands-on experiments, students will learn to differentiate between chemical and physical change!
Try our Classroom Activity: Crystal Gardens
This workshop is a great way to introduce or conclude a chemistry unit. Students will observe demonstrations and carry out hands-on activities to relate the properties of familiar (and more exotic) substances with the atoms that they're composed of!
Map Your Fruit: This activity is a great introduction to transportation energy usage and how it can be reduced.
Grid Coding: This activity introduces some coding concepts as an unplugged (no screens) challenge that incorporates physical movement.
Continue On Your Adventure: Ken Spencer Science Park: Transportation Exhibit
Litter Robot: Code a robot in scratch to explore a virtual neighbourhood and pick up litter.
Here are a few lessons you can use for students to create their own recycling sorting machine out of household materials!
Will it Wilt?: In this activity, students examine the differences between two similar plants when one plant is deprived of the power of sunlight.
Flower Dissection: In this activity, students will observe the parts of a flower and learn how each part is involved in helping a plant continue its growth for another generation.
Light Sensing with Micro:bits: Code a micro:bit to help a real plant grow by monitoring the light level it's experiencing. Need micro:bits? Consider joining our Tech-Up Ambassador program to borrow a class set from us!
Blooming Flowers: Code a light-sensing micro:bit to trigger a servo motor attached to a plant built of straws and connectors so that it appears to bloom when exposed to light! Need micro:bits and strawbees robotics kits? Consider signing up for our Tech-Up Loaner Kits to borrow a class set from us!
Geometry with Finch Robots: Explore the coding behind drawing more geometric shapes with the Finch Robots! Don't have any? Consider signing up for our Tech-Up Loaner Kits to borrow a class set from us!
Tessellations and Spirographs with Finch Robots: Deepen your understanding of patterns in math by exploring the code behind tessellations and spirograph drawing with the Finch Robots. Don't have any? Consider signing up for our Tech-Up Loaner Kits to borrow a class set from us!
Drawing Shapes with Scratch: Continue your learning of the code behind drawing geometric shapes using Scratch instead of robots!
Learn more about BC's local forests with our Coastal Temperate Rainforest unit of activities. The activities in this unit introduce the organisms and the primary characteristics of our coastal temperate rainforest.
Further your Chatbot education with a few activities posted by ScienceFriday that were made in collaboration with SteamLabs (who worked with us in developing your workshop!)
AI For Kids: In this activity you'll explore the concept of chatbots and how they work further.
Build a Chatbot: Using a similar chatbot tool, although hosted on Glitch, experiment with the questions and answers to further explore how chatbots process language.
Brainstorm with your class about the limitations the robot has when gardening. Challenge the groups to design improved and new tools for the robot to expand the farm.bot's capabilities based on what you learned during the workshop.
To get you started, what would the following tools look like?
- improved weeding
- improved watering
- improved seeder
- new harvesting tool
- new fertilizing tool
- and others they dream up!
Use this Farming Technique lesson to explore how could FarmBot be adapted to assist in other broader food systems (soil-based growing, hydroponics, aeroponics).