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Sensing and Responding: Biomes
GRADE 4
LIVING SCIENCE | SUSTAINABILITY
What are biomes and how do living things sense, respond, and adapt to their changing environments? Let’s make our own biome and discuss how we will keep our biomes healthy and active!
60 MINUTES
Temperature and Particle Movement
GRADE 4
MATTER | ENERGY
What are the phases of matter? How does temperature affect particle movement? Let’s raise the temperature in this program and find out with some hands-on chemistry experiments!
60 MINUTES
Transforming Energy: Wind turbines
GRADE 4
ENERGY | SUSTAINABILITY
We know energy is all around, but how do we harness it to power our lives? Let's explore how energy can be transformed, and discover how wind turbines turn the natural force of moving air into usable electricity.
60 MINUTES
The Earth, Sun, and Moon
GRADE 4
ASTRONOMY | LIVING SYSTEMS
What are some of the local changes caused by the Earth’s axis, rotation, and orbit? How do these observable patterns affect living and non-living systems on Earth? Let’s explore these questions and more under the night sky in the Planetarium dome!
This program is only available for classes visiting OSC.
45 MINUTES
Human Anatomy
GRADE 5
LIVING SYSTEMS
Let’s explore human anatomy and learn the basic structures and functions of the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems using hands-on science!
60 MINUTES
Simple Machines
GRADE 5
ENERGY | MOVEMENT
How do machines transfer force and energy? Use simple machines (levers, pulleys, wheels, inclined planes) to complete challenges and solve problems!
60 MINUTES
Newton's Laws
GRADE 6
ENERGY | MOVEMENT
Let’s investigate Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion. Learn the relationship between force and motion with hands-on activities!
60 MINUTES
Our Galaxy - The Milky Way
GRADE 6
ASTRONOMY
Let’s discover the Milky Way and the components of our solar system. We will discuss the overall scale and structure of our universe under the night sky in our planetarium dome!
This program is only available for classes visiting OSC.
45 MINUTES
Crystalline Structures & CHemical Changes
GRADE 7
MATTER
What are elements and compounds? How to crystals form and what are crystalline structures? Let’s explore crystallization with chemistry!
60 MINUTES
Electrifying Electricity
GRADE 7
ENERGY
What is electricity? How is it generated? Find out more about the different types of electricity with hands-on experiments and activities!
60 MINUTES
Electromagnetic Force
GRADE 7
ENERGY
What is a magnet? What is electricity? What is electromagnetic force and how is it generated? Let’s explore electromagnetism together!
60 MINUTES
Harnessing the Power of Wind
GRADE 7
ENERGY
Students will explore wind energy by building and testing their own turbine models. They'll learn how wind can be a clean, powerful energy source and see how turbine performance changes with different wind speeds.
60 MINUTES
The Behaviour of Matter
GRADE 8
MATTER
Can we prove that atoms exist and move? Observe the Brownian Motion of atoms and molecules to help understand molecular theory.
*This program includes many demonstrations and fewer hands-on activities for students due to the nature of the subject matter.
60 MINUTES