Past Institutes
Each institute has a custom set of workshops that explore topics such as the process of science, agricultural science, optics and light, everyday chemistry, energy, rocks and minerals, biodiversity, coding and digital skills and more! Participants will walk away with classroom ready activities and materials.
SIET travels across Canada from coast to coast to coast. Here are some of the locations we’ve engaged with teachers for hands-on professional development.
ONLINE workshops – November and December 2020
This series of workshops included:
Process of Science – Making Your Science Classroom Come Alive
Discover engaging ways to jump start classroom science. Explore your curiosity and think like a scientist, use your observation and inference skills and walk away with practical tools you can use with your students.
Math – The Science of Patterns
Explore patterns and use this to predict and see how this this can help crack codes. Discover math and patterns in nature, see how it can inspire creativity and understand why some call math the science of patterns.
Widget Building Workshop
Widgets are fun and simple activities that can be done with elementary school students to illustrate science concepts. This workshop will include a number of easy projects that explore sound and energy and encourage critical thinking skills in students.
Seeing the Invisible
Discover how you can transform your cell phone into a powerful tool to explore the “micro-world”. Use this to explore close up crystal shape and the structure of objects and unleash your student’s curiosity to explore the world around them.
ONLINE workshops – August and September 2020
This series of workshops included:
- Making Your Science Classroom Come Alive
Discover engaging ways to jump start classroom science. Explore your curiocity and think like a scientist, use your observation and inference skills and walk away with practical tools you can use with your students. - Properties of Air and the Basics of Flight
Participants explore the physical properties of air, Bernoulli’s principle, and how different aspects of flight work through engaging and practical experiments and activities. - Creative Prototyping
Participants will learn practical ways to engage students in hands-on prototyping (both physical & digital realms) while teaching remotely. A few quick creative challenges will be shared based on maker education activities. (offered in partnership with Actua) - Exploring Simple Machines
Participants explore the different types of simple machines, the ways we can use mechanical advantage, and the applications of simple machines in our day-to-day lives. - Interactive Coding Workshop
Interactive Coding Workshop This workshop is a basic introduction to Scratch and other fun coding activities, specifically geared towards teachers who want to support their students with building digital skills while teaching and learning remotely. (offered in partnership with Actua)
Iqaluit, Nunavut – February 18-20, 2020
In partnership with Actua
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – January 25, 2020
In partnership with Canadian Light Source
Kitimat, British Columbia – August 14 and 15, 2019
Two days of teacher professional development led by Ingenium
St John’s, Newfoundland – July 10 and 11, 2019
In partnership with NLESD
Prince George, British Columbia – August 21, 2018
In partnership with Science World British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia – August 17, 2018
In partnership with Science World British Columbia
St John’s, Newfoundland – July 25 & 26, 2018
Two days of teacher professional development led by Ingenium
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – July 17, 2018
In partnership with Canadian Light Source
Northern Alberta – July 3 to 7, 2018
In partnership with Inside Education – the lead organizer
Vancouver, British Columbia – August 15 to 18, 2017
In partnership with Science World British Columbia
St John’s, Newfoundland – July 11 & 12, 2017
Two days of teacher professional development led by Ingenium
Iqaluit, Nunavut – February 13 to 15, 2017
As part of the Nunavut Teachers’ Association Professional Improvement Week
Vancouver, British Columbia – August 9 to 12, 2016
In partnership with Science World British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia – July 28 to 30, 2015
In partnership with Science World BC, the Vancouver Aquarium and the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre
