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Students will expand their math skills and fine motor skills by measuring and mixing ingredients.

Students will discuss states of matter to learn about solids, liquids, and gases.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures; Grade 2 – Measurement, Properties of Liquids and Solids

Students will learn what a structure is and its ability to maintain stability and strength

Students will consider how forces play a role in affecting the strength and stability of structures

Students will understand the major roles struts and ties play in increasing a structure's strength and stability

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 – Strong and Stable Structures; Grade 5 – Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms

Students will get an introduction to coding and software engineering by creating a fun and interactive game that tests their logical thinking and creativity skills.

By creating this game, students will have a better understanding of how their favourite games are created.

They will learn how to use variables, loops, if-statements and inputs.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6-8 – The Four Step Problem-Solving Model

Students will be introduced to coding through the easy-to-use, kid-friendly Scratch Jr. Platform.

Students will be learning about technology, while developing fine motor skills.

Students will develop critical and creative thinking skills with the application of those skills on a technological platform, as recommended in the Ontario Science and Technology curriculum.

There are three common states of matter. Physical change refers to the fact that a substance can be changed from one form to another. Chemical change implies the formation of a new substance. Identify indicators of a chemical change. Distinguish between a physical and chemical change.

Use the engineering design process to determine an appropriate solution for a problem.

Explain at least three ways that energy can be produced, along with their given strengths and weaknesses.

Recognize the complicated nature of trying to create artificial habitats, and how doing so can help us on Earth.

Students will learn about civil engineering and city planning as they design and build their own cities

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures

Students will learn about cancer in the human body and will explore potential cancer treatments.

Students will apply problem-solving skills to create a model to remove cancer cells.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 5 – Human Organ Systems, Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms

Students will get an introduction to coding and software engineering by creating a fun and interactive game that tests their logical thinking and creativity skills.

They will learn how to use loops, if-statements and inputs.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6-8 – The Four Step Problem-Solving Model

Students will expand their fine motor skills by measuring and mixing ingredients.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures, Grade 2 – Properties of liquids & solids

Students will learn about the implications of air pollution.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 4 – Habitats and Communities, Grade 5 – Properties of and Changes in Matter

Understanding the concept of lift and the interactions between forces involved in flight.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6 - Flight, Grade 8 - Fluids

Students will be exploring sound through a lesson and building an instrument.

Students will be learning about the 3 parts of the ear (inner, middle, outer).

Students will be discovering that the brain and ears are connected.

Curriculum Connections: SK to 1 - Understanding matter and energy.

Students will apply the engineering design process to ensure that they successfully built a shelter that will not collapse under the weight of more and more flour.

Students will engage in multiple tests to make observations that can lead to the best possible design for their structures.

Curriculum Connections: 3 to 5 - Understanding Structures and Mechanisms, Strong and Stable Structures.

Explain why engineers design different types of homes in different locations (to meet the needs of various climates).

Give examples of different home designs engineers might use for different climates.

Explain the wide range of building materials used to construct homes in different climates.

Curriculum Connections: 6 to 8 - Understanding Earth and Space Systems, Heat in the Environment.

Students will be able to understand gravitational and kinetic energy.

Students will be able to make a structure that is navigable.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 - Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures; Grade 2 – Energy in our Lives.

Students will explore chemical engineering.

Students will explore and discuss the states of matter.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 – Forces Causing Movement; Grade 5 - Properties of and Changes in Matter

Students will expand their knowledge of space nutrition.

Students will discuss be able to the effects of chemical treatments to inhibit the ripening of fruit.

Students will have knowledge of many different ways to preserve fruits.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6 - Understanding Earth and Space Systems; Grade 7 – Pure Substances and Mixtures; Grade 8 – Understanding Life Systems

Students will explore tensile liquids.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 2 – Properties of Liquids and Solids.

Students will explore pulleys change the speed, direction, motion of, and the force exerted on moving objects.

Students will explore pulleys make it possible for a small input force to generate a large output force.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 – Forces Causing Movement; Grade 4 – Pulleys and Gears; Grade 5 – Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms.

Students will investigate the elements that cause movement.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 – Form and Function, Grade 8 - Systems in Actions.

Students will consider what energy is and how it is conserved while playing a game.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1- Energy in Our Lives; Grade 2 – Movement.

Students will consider how the respiratory system works by creating their very own model of the lungs.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 5 – Human Organ Systems.

Students will consider how the theory of conservation of energy can be applied to everyday processes.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 - Understanding Structures and Mechanisms; Grade 8 – System’s in Action.

Students will learn about tornados and how they are formed.

Students will learn about environmental engineering.

Students will understand some of the engineering challenges brought on by extreme weather.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures and Daily and Seasonal Changes.

Learn about buoyancy.

Students will learn about the Archimedes principle.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 5 – Properties of and Changes in Matter, Grade 5 – Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms.

Students will learn about renewable and non-renewable energy sources.

Students will learn about green chemistry.

Students will learn about wind turbines.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 – Structures and Mechanisms: Form and Function and Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Heat in the Environment; Grade 8 - Structures and Mechanisms: Systems in Action.

Students will learn about some basic mathematical concepts and about an abacus and why it is used.

Curriculum Connections: Students will develop critically and creating thinking skills with the application of those skills on a technological platform, as recommended in the Ontario Science and Technology curriculum.

Students will about software engineering in a creative way.

Students will about how the binary number system works.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3- Forces causing movement, Grade 4- Light and Sound, Grade 5-Conservation of energy and resources.

Students will describe the basic concept of a hearing-aid and how sound can be amplified.

Students will describe the need for the modern-day hearing aid and how engineers have improved the device with new materials and technologies.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 6 - Electricity and Electrical Devices, Grade 7 - Form and Function, Grade 8- Systems in Action.

Students investigate how to bend light waves to increase the size of an image.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 1 – Energy in Our Lives; Grade 2 - Movement.

Students will learn about environmental engineering, what biodegradable and environmentally friendly means, and what composting is.

Students will about how the binary number system works.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 3 – Soils in the Environment; Grade 5 – Conservation of Energy and Resources.

Students will create a Ferris wheel using knowledge of engineering design and understandings of gravity, force, and structure.

Curriculum Connections: Grade 7 – Form and Function.

Students will investigate, through experimentation, the properties of various materials.

Students will investigate, through experimentation, interactions that occur as a result of mixing and/or dissolving liquids and solids.

Students will investigate forces that cause an object to start moving, stop moving, or change direction.

Students will use technological problem-solving skills and knowledge acquired from previous investigations.

Students will use technological problem-solving skills to design, build, and test a device that transforms one form of energy into another.

Students wil solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing efficient code, including code that involves conditional statements and other control structures.

Students will solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing efficient code, including code that involves events influenced by a defined count.