Primary Junior Science & Technology

Created by educators, Cube For Teachers is a free solution for all educators everywhere that fosters straight-forward access to open educational resources, increasing efficiency and collaboration.

Go-Lab invites all schools and teachers to use the Go-Lab Ecosystem. Here you will find the world’s largest collection of free online laboratories for teaching STEM subjects from the leading providers. Furthermore, you will be able to easily create virtual learning scenarios for each classroom session (the so-called Inquiry Learning Spaces), containing online labs, inquiry learning apps, and any other multimedia learning content. More than 1,000 customizable ready-to-use spaces are available in many languages for you to save your time. The Go-Lab Ecosystem and its tools are free of charge and will remain free of charge after the pandemic. You can keep using it for free as long as you want.

With Google Earth and mapping tools you can learn about diversity across biomes and cities, measure how a river has changed shape overtime, or create a project highlighting architectural styles across the ages. Using Google Earth and maps in classrooms can help visualize abstract concepts across a global canvas, allowing students to connect what they learn inside to what they experience in their daily lives, community, and to the larger world.

OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Search the Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons for carefully selected, free, lesson plans that you can be modified to align with the Ontario curriculum.

Teaching resources, professional learning opportunities, networking opportunities, and advocacy for technological education.

Join Joseph Pitawanakwat of Creators Garden and Haley Higdon of Natural Curiosity as they explore the value of Indigenous perspectives in STEM. Explore Indigenous science, including Anishinaabe plant-based medicine, and its relationship with western knowledge systems. Learn how meaningful relationships between educators, students and the natural world can facilitate understanding of Indigenous perspectives.

Explore curriculum and professional learning resources, including our STEM Education Toolkit

Fun science experiments, cool facts, free games, activities, lesson plans, quizzes, videos, photos and science fair project ideas.

Wow your students with engaging science activities, experiments and videos that meet the elementary and secondary Ontario Science and Technology curriculum.

Classroom resources, professional development and networking for Ontario's science teachers.

Lesson plans for each grade, long range plans, coding and webinars for teachers. Created in response to the new 2022 Ontario Elementary Science and Technology Curriculum, in partnership with STAO, OCTE, and ACSE.

Science in Pre-K provides teachers with the basic science content knowledge for each of the science units of the programs. This content is developed with adults in mind. The science content is here for you to learn and to empower yourself to teach your students at their appropriate age level. You can also find guidance in this section about how to introduce these subjects to your students.

Practical hands-on activities, resources and events to advance STEM learning.

Games, activities, and resources aligned with the Ontario curriculum.

The European Coding Initiative, or ‘all you need is {C<3DE}', brings together a wide array of stakeholders to promote coding and computational thinking at all levels of education, as well as in more informal settings. (from Website)

Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented minorities. Code.org organizes the annual Hour of Code (https://hourofcode.com/ca) campaign.

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Organized by code.org. The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. Anyone, anywhere can organize an Hour of Code event. One-hour tutorials are available in over 45 languages. No experience needed. Ages 4 to 104.(from Website)

Microsoft MakeCode is a free, open source platform for creating engaging computer science learning experiences that support a progression path into real-world programming.

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge. With Information for parents and educators.