Classroom Kits, Workshops & STEAM Centres

In this project students express their creativity while exploring living systems, and investigating the needs of plants and animals! Each student will invent an alien creature with unique traits and needs, then build a home for their animal based on these needs. The class will collaborate to piece together their environments, creating one cohesive alien zoo containing all of their special creatures!

Students will investigate the suitability of different materials for a specific purpose as they design and build their own boat, exploring properties of buoyancy, density, and gravity. Students will follow instructions to build a base design for their boat including a simple motor. After that, they can improve on this base by adding their own design elements! They will then test their boat to see how various materials, design elements affect the functionality of their boat.

In this hands-on project, your class can become the environmental engineers of tomorrow! Students will deepen their understanding of energy resources in Alberta while investigating the particle model of matter. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology is a growing industry in Canada. In this activity students will build a small-scale model of a CCS facility which can capture, compress, transport, and safely store carbon dioxide.

In this scientific inquiry project, students explore the issue of clean water access while taking on the role of a chemical engineer. Just like engineers in the real world, students will design and implement different processes to purify a contaminated water sample in their own mini treatment plant. They will practice recording data by analyzing the quality of the water and learn that engineering is based on iterative design.

This interdisciplinary project uses the power of materials engineering to solve matters of the heart! Students will learn about the different types of materials, their properties, and how to characterize them with the Materials Engineering Tetrahedron. Using a very unique alloy called Nitinol, they will create a stent, insert it into a 3D printed heart, and activate it to compress an arterial blockage.

This project is designed to teach students about carbon dioxide from the perspective of chemical and environmental engineers. While exploring Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, students will build their knowledge of the carbon cycle, pH scale, and stoichiometry. Students will then put their skills to practice performing a series of experiments to create, remove, detect, and measure carbon dioxide from an air sample.

Students will learn how forces relate to changes in movement. They will observe applied forces, elastic forces, and tension in action as they build a slingshot!

Using magnetic materials, students will explore how magnets interact with each other as they create a representation of Earth’s magnetosphere.

Students will learn about compressive and tensile forces and the role they play in structures through building their own gravity-defying tensegrity table!

These open ended STEAM related challenges involve unstructured free play, and encourage children to ask, explore, and create! These activities help students build physical, social, and oral language skills.