Mad Materials
Mad Materials focuses on the use of senses to help learn about and investigate different materials. The students will employ their sense of touch to identify different materials. By combining all of their senses they will learn more about the materials and how they can be changed. They will investigate how different materials make different noises and create their own nifty noisemaker to take home!. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Spectacular Structures
Spectacular Structures reinforces the fact that structures are created for specific purposes and often use geometric shapes that are repeated throughout it. The children will do various experiments with Magnet Joints and Magnatiles They will witness the construction of a Catenary arch and learn more about the stages of structure construction. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Moving Machines
Moving Machines focuses on the six simple machines. The children will experiment with inclined planes, catapults, and rubber band race cars. They will make their own Mad Science Rocket Racers to take home at the end of the workshop. Material Fee: $3.00 per student
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Wild Wind & Water
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Mad About Matter
Mad about Matter uses water to focus on the different states of matter, primarily liquids and solids. The children will experiment with different solids to see how they dissolve, absorb, and/or float in water. They will learn about density with a liquid lasagna demonstration and make sparkle tubes to take home. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Make It Move
Make it Move focuses on how energy is stored and used. Students will experiment with rubber band powered racecars and other energy toys to better understand the difference between potential and kinetic energy. They will see demonstrations on how friction affects movement and how energy is converted from one form to the next. They will finish the workshop by constructing Mad Science Rocket Racers. Material Fee: $3.00 per student
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Structures & Levers
Structures and Levers focuses on the strength of structures. Students will build different structures using various shapes and experiment to find out how strong they are. The will build a bridge out of straws and a lever out of legos. Mad Science will provide the teacher with a classroom set of Magnet Joints! Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Light
Students will be introduced to light as a form of energy. They will see for themselves how light travels in waves through air. They will experiment with various light sources and phosphorescence to reveal the dark world of shadows. The students will make patterns of light that do not really exist and separate white light into its spectrum of colours. They will learn about lasers and have their very own Laser show to end the program! Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Pulleys & Gears
Students will gain an understanding of the power of simple machines such as pulleys. They will perform a series of experiments using gear trains to discover the characteristics of these useful tools. Then they will use pulley riggings to investigate the direct relationship between number of pulleys and effort. Students will make their own paper clip pulley system and take it home. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Changes
Students will be introduced to the nature of the three states of matter by participating in a dramatization of the effect temperature has on matter. They will discover the differences between physical and chemical change and perform a series of experiments to “solidify” the concept. Students will be exposed to the basic concepts of liquid volume and buoyancy through demonstrations. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Wacky Weather
Students will be introduced to the idea that weather is all about air and temperature. They will gain an understanding of the nature of air through demonstrations and experiments, which reveal air to be a powerful force, which can create some of the most severe weather. When this knowledge is combined with the altering effects of temperature, the students realize how weather can be created (they will witness a cloud being formed in a bottle) and understood. Several measuring devices will help the students understand weather prediction. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Forces Acting Up
The students will be made aware of the extent to which our world is a constructed and how an understanding of structures is necessary to live in such a world. They will be introduced to the forces that keep structures up and make them fall down. Tension and compression will come alive when they explore a model of a building and replace the rigid members with non-rigid ones, to see whether they are in tension or compression. Students will put their new knowledge to the test when
they try to build the tallest freestanding structure. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Excellent Energy
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Be Tobacco Free
The grossest of all Mad Science programs. Explore the physiological impact of tobacco use. Beware of the lung of grossness! Be prepared for smelly gross science of your insides. This program fits in well with the Grade 5 Human Organ Systems Unit! Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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Air & Aerodynamics
Students will explore the properties of air that allow planes to fly. Through demonstrations and experiments with equipment that moves air, including a leaf blower, they will discover how moving air can provide lift, which will give them the background they need to investigate the four forces of flight; lift, drag, propulsion, and gravity. The students will build a paper plane designed to illustrate these opposing forces. They will take home a fantastic stunt plane that they assemble at the end of the program. Material Fee: $2.00 per student
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Spectacular Space
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Electrifying Science
Students will be introduced to the concept and common types of electricity. They will see demonstrations, play games, and perform experiments that will show electricity in action. Students will build their own electric circuits and test them to help them grasp the idea of electricity as flowing electrons. They will also perform a series of experiments using their newly made circuits and a voltmeter, to discover the nature of voltage. They will learn how an electromagnet uses electricity to create a magnetic force. Material Fee: $1.00 per student
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