Category Archives: Featured activity kit

Featured Activity Kit. Real World Science 1. Weather and Climate

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Monique Flaccavento

With the sizzling temperatures in Ontario recently, the activity kit Real World Science 1: Weather and Climate  (call #CR 551.6 R288) introduces students in Grades 3 to 5 to various weather systems and encourages them to explore how weather affects … Continue reading →

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Discover Fossils. Featured Activity Kit.

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Monique Flaccavento

With the recent discovery of Mosasaur fossils in Manitoba (flesh-eating lizard-like sea creatures that swam around western Canada 80 million years ago), this activity kit Discover Fossils (call #CR 560 S613D) will spark or rekindle the curiosity of students in … Continue reading →

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Featured Activity Kit. Global Trek 7.

Posted on August 10, 2011 by Monique Flaccavento

Global Trek 7 (call # CR 303.482 G562)  is an informative social studies activity kit that explores and invites students to examine world hunger, war, child labour, human rights, access to water and health, and education. Activities center around areas … Continue reading →

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Featured Activity Kit: Teaching with Clay Animation

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Monique Flaccavento

The Teaching with Clay Animation kit (call # CR 778.5346 C619) will “put your students in the director’s chair to create their own clay animation movies.”  Students will work collaboratively to write storyboards and scripts, create clay characters, and then … Continue reading →

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Featured Activity Kit: Power Solids

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Monique Flaccavento

Featured activity kit Power Solids (call #CR 516.06 P887)  consists of a set of 12 translucent geometric solids (cube, cylinder, prism, hexagonal prism, 2 triangular prisms, triangular pyramid, square pyramid, cone, sphere, hemisphere) made of translucent blue plastic. Each solid … Continue reading →

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