Educational Partnerships
Check out our educational partnership programs and resources for educators below!
If you would like to partner with us for an outreach activity please contact us!
Check out our educational partnership programs and resources for educators below!
If you would like to partner with us for an outreach activity please contact us!
Our volunteers visit classrooms at local primary schools for single or multiple visits to inspire the next generation of scientists!
In this program, pairs of physicists visit local primary schools 4 times over the course of the school year, bringing along a different physics activity for each hour-long visit. Students get to know a physicist, while doing inquiry-based activities and experiments to explore various physics concepts like density, gravity, and momentum. These activities include:
At the end of this program, students have completed their "training" to become junior Space Explorers!
Science in Space: How to Telescope is an informal science learning program co-founded in 2022 by the Trottier Space Institute, McGill Physics, and Dell Technologies/Girls Who Game. The program is aimed at girls and students of marginalized genders in STEM between the ages of 10 and 14 (grades 5-8). Science in Space is designed to mitigate girls' attrition from STEM by fostering a sense of belonging and community, thus increasing student engagement and confidence in using STEM to tackle real-world problems. Over the course of 10 weeks,
students design and build telescopes in Minecraft with the guidance of graduate student mentors (who themselves identify as members of marginalized groups in STEM).
Check out the full details at our Science in Space Website!
We have a number of prepared activities for your classroom! Our hands-on physics activities are developed with inquiry in mind. Click through the panels to learn more about the activities and modify them for use in your classroom.
Connect lights and other circuit elements together to discover how electricity works
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Predict a hidden shape by looking at trajectories of marbles that bounce off it
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Students will learn how an object's mass, starting height, and initial velocity affect how it falls under the force of gravity
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Understand the difference between heat and temperature and how to distinguish materials.
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Discover how factors like mass, volume, and shape affect the ability of an object to float.
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Discover how factors like volume, temperature, and density affect air pressure inside a closed volume.
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Connect lights and other circuit elements together to discover how electricity works. For scientists aged 8-12.
In this activity, students will develop a model of electricity and
explore their model using circuit elements.
Students will get a chance to connect a battery, LEDs, and other circuit elements using wires with alligator clips. They will explain their findings using a model of electrical current and potential energy that is developed during the activity.
Predict a hidden shape by looking at trajectories of marbles that bounce off it.
For scientists aged 8-12.
In this activity, students will learn about how scientists use
collisions to determine properties of objects that they cannot see with their eyes. Students will learn about how an object behaves when it hits a surface at different angles and use this to predict the shape of a hidden object using our 'shape colliders.'
Learn how forces affect the motion of objects.
For scientists aged 8-12.
In this activity, students will perform experiments using a
pulley-weight setup in order to understand the effects of forces on the motion of an object. They will learn about how the force applied on the object and the mass of the object affects it's motion by adding washers to both ends of a string that is attached to a pulley. They will also experiment with the force of friction acting on the object, and discover how a sandpaper surface affects the object’s motion.
Students will learn how an object's mass, starting height, and initial velocity affect how it falls under the force of gravity.
For scientists aged 8-12.
Students will perform three different experiments by dropping ball
bearings into a box filled with sand. The first time, two balls with
different masses will fall from the same height. The second time, two balls with the same mass will be dropped from two different heights. The third time, they will experiment with two balls with the same mass and similar initial height, however one will be thrown in order to have an initial velocity. Students will then use a flashlight to observe the craters made in the sand, and discuss the differences between the two craters.
Understand the difference between heat and temperature and distinguish between materials that conduct heat well (thermal conductors) and those which conduct heat
poorly (thermal insulators).
For scientists aged 8-12.
In this activity, students will discover that certain materials conduct heat better than others through the observation that ice cubes melt at a higher rate on metal plates than on plastic ones. They will also learn that heat flows from warmer objects to colder ones to reach a thermal equilibrium.
Understand the difference between heat and temperature and distinguish between materials that conduct heat well (thermal conductors) and those which conduct heat poorly (thermal insulators).
For scientists aged 8-12.
In this activity, students will discover that certain materials conduct heat better than others through the observation that ice cubes melt at a higher rate on metal plates than on plastic ones. They will also learn that heat flows from warmer objects to colder ones to reach a thermal equilibrium.
Understand the difference between heat and temperature and distinguish between materials that conduct heat well (thermal conductors) and those which conduct heat poorly (thermal insulators).
For scientists aged 8-12.
In this activity, students will discover that certain materials conduct heat better than others through the observation that ice cubes melt at a higher rate on metal plates than on plastic ones. They will also learn that heat flows from warmer objects to colder ones to reach a thermal equilibrium.