Sparking Curiosity, Inspiring Minds

For our Grade 3 NGSS unit on Weather and Climate , I have been working hard to make the learning hands-on, inquiry-led and full of opportunities to explore the concepts of patterns and cause and effect. This unit is already a favorite because students get to investigate real-world weather concepts, so adding some engineering design work felt like a natural fit. For the STEAM design challenge I created, students were asked to design a hurricane-proof structure that could with

As part of our Grade 4 energy unit, we wanted students to explore how energy can be transferred and transformed in everyday materials. To...

I love creating fun, engaging, hands-on design challenges for students. Sometimes, the best design challenges are ones that can fit on a...

n Grade 4 science, our unit on Processes that Shape the Earth  looked at how natural forces like earthquakes, tsunamis, floods,...

I wanted to share two recent activities with my Grade 5 students that truly captured the heart of scientific and engineering thinking....

As part of the Grade 3 Weather and Climate unit, the teaching team invited me to their planning meeting to brainstorm ways to make the...