Resources available

»Looking for some ideas? Short on time? We have a number of premade kits and activities that you can borrow and use for any grade level! These are all designed with the Canadian school curriculum in mind. Many were developed at our site and specifically for Alberta curriculum. Contact us and we will set you up with the material! However do not feel constrained by these topics, you can do almost anything you want as an activity!

Site Specific Kits - These come pre-packaged with instructions and all the materials. Contact us to book one.

»Liquids (Grade 2) - By Aurea Siemens

»Animal Life Cycles (Grade 3) - By Aurea Siemens

»Hearing and Sound (Grade 3) - By Aurea Siemens

»Plants and Seeds (Grade 4) - By Aurea Siemens

»Electricity (Grade 5) - By Aurea Siemens

»Weather (Grade 5) - By Aurea Siemens

»Wetlands (Grade 5) - By Aurea Siemens

»Trees and Forests (Grade 6) - By Aurea Siemens and Gord McNickle

»Air and Aerodynamics (Grade 6) - By Aurea Siemens

»Cryogenics (Grade 7) - By Aurea Siemens

»Biochemistry and Forensics (Grade 11-12) - By Aurea Siemens.
(NOTE: this kit is unavailable until further notice, many of the reagents are on backorder.)

»Pin hole Cameras! - By Amy MacDonald

»DNA who-dunnit kit! (forensics) - Developed at the University of Calgary LTS site. This will be on loan from Calgary and only available for the month of February 2009. Contact us to book the kit.

Science on a Shoestring! - PDF files only

A compilation of inexpensive easy activities contributed by all of the LTSPP sites from accross western canada. These were presented at the 2008 Western Regional LTS conference held in Saskatoon. These can be downloaded in PDF form below, you will have to print the file and get the materials for these yourself.

»Plant Life Cycles, Grades K-1, Plants - University of Victoria

»Felt Flowers, Grades K-2, Biology - University of Saskatchewan

»Seed Dispersal, Grades K-2, Biology - Sue McKee (LTS Head Office)

»Toilet Paper Solar System, Grade 3, Space - University of Manitoba

»Glacier Rescue!, Grade 4, Earth science - Simon Fraser University

»Fish and Food Webs,Grade 4, Biology - Krystal LaPierre (LTS Head Office)

»Energy and Energy Conversion, Grade 4, Energy - University of Saskatchewan

»Make Your own Silly Putty, Elementary grades, Chemistry - University of Winnipeg

»The Expanding Universe, Elementary Grades, Physics/Solar system - University of Saskatchewan

»DNA Alias, Grade 4-7, Biology - University of British Columbia

»homemade pH indicator, Grade 4-7, Chemestry - University of British Columbia

»Lazer Sounds, Grade 2-8, Physics - University of British Columbia

»Wild Wolf Wardrobe, Grades 2-8, Ecology - University of Saskatchewan

»Foraging Lab, Grades 2-8, Ecology - University of Saskatchewan

»The Game of Life!, Grade 7-8, Computer Science - University of Alberta

»Banana DNA extraction, Grade 6-12, Biology - University of Saskatchewan

»Coal vs Wind, Middle grades, Environment/Physics - University of Saskatchewan

»Insects and Plants, Grade 6 and Up, Plant Animal Interactions - University of Alberta

»Pop Bottle Community Ecology, Grade 9 and up, Community Ecology - University of Alberta

»Darwin's Finches, Grade 10, Biology - Krystal LaPierre (LTS Head Office)

National Site Resources

The national LTS site has a searchable database of resources. Click here to go to the national site resources page.

Other resources

»University of British Columbia's Let's Talk Science Partnership Program's online activity database

»CRAM science: An online science magazine for youth! CRAM is now part of the Let's Talk Science family!

»BBC Schools Science Clips

»Cool Science for Curious Kids

»PBS Kids

»Foossweb - Forensics activities

»Sand Lot Science .Com

»Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab

»Science Spot

»TEACHnology.com