Science and Technology - General

 The Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1-8

Toys made from found material around your home. Topics include: Amazing Astronomy, Pumps from the Dump. Math Magic. Paper Fun, Tipping Toppling Toys, Motor and Generator, Electricity and Magnetism, Newton Unplugged, Fun with Pressure, Fun with Light, Toys from Trash, Simple Sounds, Strong Structures. Flying Toys, Force Fun, Spinning Toys, Magic Miscellany, Beginners Biology, Air and Water, String Games. Toys Designed by K. V. Potdar

• Scientists
• Actvities and Games: sorted by science strand for upper level students
• Online Quiz for secondary students

Alphabetical listing of science experiments. There are a number of environment experiments. These experiments use household materials.

NASA science activities with instructions and on-line video-clips.

Science technology sites sorted by strand and category. Webquests included.

Science lesson plans with links and printable student worksheets.

Energy Education from the California Energy Commission.  Includes biographies of scientists  and many sites with games and experiments for various types of energy. Interesting list of Science Fair information. 

• Text Only Page

Physical science, (sound, simple machines, electricity, magnetism, solids, liquids, gases, matter) Life science (Dinosaurs, human body), earth science (recycling, space, weather, water) experiments and lesson plans listed by grade.

• Teacher Resources
• Student Zone
• Games & Puzzles

On-line and at-home experiments to try in areas of: earth science, math, physical science, space, technology and engineering, chemistry, social science, medicine and health. 

Online activities on a variety of topics: space, planet earth, human body, living things, mind and perception, food.

 Links to online activities.

Click on Exhibit Hall to find biographies of famous physicists such as Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and others. 

• Nobel Laureates in Physics 1901-present

Explore the science of baseball, cycling, skateboarding, and hockey.

An interesting site to explore. You will find scientific explanations and logic puzzles to share with your class, experiments to demonstrate, and connections of language with science.

This site is an interactive, highly visual, and non-technical way for you to see the laws of physics in action. 

An extensive list of measurement terms.