Valentine’s Day Science Lesson Planning Ideas

by Mark Langley. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, no doubt many of you will be looking for ideas to link your class activity with a day that may be on many of your students minds.  In our video, Mark Langley, one of the Professional Development Leaders at the National Science Learning Centre demonstrates how to [...]

12 Christmas activities in the science classroom

Ho ho ho.  It’s the last few days of school before the Christmas holidays and your pupils are all far too excited to concentrate on anything other than the looming visit by the big man in red  – and the possibility of making snowmen. So how do you keep their minds engaged on the subject, [...]

Halloween – The Three Hags

Late last night our cameras captured these three individuals who had  infiltrated our laboratories and were creating mischief.  It appears they were making plans for Halloween….. On a more serious note this video demonstrates an effective way to tie in  a very popular date on the calendar with conventional science, and have some fun at [...]