GO! science Outreach

Bring the Saskatchewan Science Centre to your school by booking a GO!science outreach event.   

Outreach programming lasts a full day, reaches upwards of 150 students, and includes 3 workshops along with our Matter of Fact stage show. Each of the workshops is geared toward specific age groups and is tied into curricular outcomes, and the stage show is a great way to bring all of the students in your school together to enjoy a demonstration.

Prices and booking

Full day package, which includes three workshops of your choice (see workshops list below) plus a lunch time stage show (NEW! Matter of Fact) is $500 + mileage.

Share the costs – encourage other schools in your area to book a day with us during the same week and reduce travel costs!

Call 791-7955 in Regina, or toll-free at 1-800-667-6300 Ext. 5, or email outreach1@sasksciencecentre.com to book GO! science Outreach today.

Workshops (choose 3 from this list)

1. Sense-ational Animals (K - Grade 2)

Length: 1 hours
Maximum: 42 students

Why can dogs smell scents you can’t? How does a hawk spot its prey from the air? Get all of your animal sense questions answered, and more!
 
This workshop has students exploring the five senses—sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell—through fun, hands-on stations. They’ll discover how important their senses are to them, as well as how the featured animals’ senses have adapted to serve their survival needs.

Curriculum Connection:

Kindergarten: Living things in our environment
Science 1: Needs and characteristics of living things
Science 2: Animal growth and changes

2. Mechanical Forces: Energy, Motion… Discover! (Grades 3 - 6)

Length: 1.5 hours
Maximum: 60 students

Who are Sir Issac Newton and Rube Goldberg, and what do they have in common? Students work in groups to create their own mechanism to solve a simulated real life situation. Inquiry-based learning occurs as students use a variety of materials to make simple machines and discover the properties of forces and motion.

Curriculum Connection:

Science 3 - Visible and invisible forces
Science 5 - Forces and simple machines
Science 6 - Principles of flight

3. Shocking! Understanding Electricity (Grades 6 - 9)

Length: 1.5 hours
Maximum: 42 students

This hair-raising workshop takes you from electrostatic charges to parallel circuits and beyond! Students will learn about simple and parallel circuits through hands-on activities and then have the opportunity to make their own circuits. Let us join your class for a shocking experience!

Curriculum Connection:

Grade 6: Understanding electricity
Grade 9: Characteristics of electricity

4. Robots! On the Road (Grades 6 - 12)

Length: 1.5 hours
Maximum: 25 students
Only available from November 2011 to March 2012; book early

Take part in an exciting robotics challenge.  Let your budding engineers build and program specialized LEGO robotics. Students will build and program robots to react to their environment and follow simple commands. Can you build a robot capable of navigating our Science Centre maze?

Robots! On the Road is sponsored by ISM Canada an IBM company

Limited availability: Aboriginal Youth Innovators: Eco-Exploration (Grades 6 - 8)

Length: 1.5 hours
Maximum: 40 students
Only available to certain schools. Let us know if you're interested, and we'll let you know if you qualify.

Inspire aboriginal youth in environmental science and technology through an assessment of the climate in their community!

This program will educate and inform aboriginal youth about their ecoregion by looking at weather patterns and local plant and animal species. Appreciation for traditional knowledge in climate change research will also be emphasized. Research will be conducted by the students, exploring the properties of the world around them. The importance of the results of the field research will be accentuated through the collection of all the results of participating schools, which will be sent as a newsletter to schools at the end of the year.

Aboriginal Youth Innovators is sponsored by:

Stage Show Demonstration (included with all GO! science Outreach bookings!)

Matter of Fact Stage Show

Did you know that water expands when it freezers? Or that mercury is the only metal that is in liquid form at room temperature? We see solids, liquids and gases every day, but what about the fourth state of matter -- plasma? Learn some interesting facts about the states of matter with this interactive stage show demonstration (pictured above).

Call 791-7955 in Regina, or toll-free at 1-800-667-6300 Ext. 5.

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