Resources for Teachers

CANDAC Educational Resources

 

The CANDAC outreach team has compiled lesson plans including presentations, activities, and other ideas covering a variety of topics including ozone depletion, climate change, weather, and how our atmosphere is studied from the ground, from weather balloons, and from space.

We have a range of resources that are suitable for students from kindergarten to grade 12. 

You can access these resources on the CANDAC website:

http://candac.ca/candacweb/educational-resources 

Build Your Own Weather Instruments (Links)

• Hygrometer (humidity) and barometer (pressure)
  
• Thermometer (temperature), anemometer (wind speed), barometer (pressure) and rain gauge (amount of rainfall
• Weather vane (wind direction) and compass

Atmospheric Science Experiments (Links)

• Pointing North  
• Build a film canister rocket
• Make your own rock candy
• Make a balloon rocket
• Bending light in the dark
• Charging up a light bulb
• Hydrogen bubbles
• All about air experiments - Soda can shake up, can crusher, giant smoke rings, etc.
• Weather experiments - Cloud in a bottle, colourful convection currents, fire tornado, etc.
• Why is the sky blue?
• TEA Laser - How lasers work
• Do it yourself: CD hovercraft
• Do it yourself: How a rainbow forms
• Quick and easy science experiments and explanations
• CD spectroscope
• Air physics experiments for every grade level 

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