Teaching resources

Make and test a simple greenhouse effect model.

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Has your microclimate changed?	Tom Pedersen, climate solutions Terri Lacourse, paleoecologist Francis Zwiers, climate scientist

Explore what’s in your favourite foods.

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Food chemistry: what's fresh and what's not.	Fraser Hof, chemist Reg Mitchell, chemist

Test your knowledge about what health researchers are working on to make lives better.

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What are health researchers discovering?	Profiles of eight health researchers

Create and explore voting methods and their results.

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Voting by the numbers!	Anthony Quas, chaos theory mathematician Anthony Quas' research page

Use buoyancy to send a robot to the ocean floor.

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Ocean floor exploration using remotely operated vehicles	Kim Juniper, deep sea ecosystems oceanographer

Travel out into space and look at the November sky.

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Travelling to the stars! Astronomy glossary	Sara Ellison, galactic astronomer Sara Ellison's research page

Simple ways to identify local trees.

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The key to trees!	Peter Constabel, tree genetics biologist Peter Constabel's research page

Make a model and test how contamination flows into ground water.

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Groundwater and contamination.	Terry Prowse, water scientist Asit Mazumder’s water research page