Professional Development

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Customized STEM Professional Development for Teachers.

Support your teaching team with customized, in-person one-hour, half-day, or full-day professional development from Science North. Designed for schools and school boards, these sessions provide practical ways to strengthen coding or STEM instruction through inquiry-based learning, curriculum connections, and classroom-ready tools that teachers can adapt to their own students.

  • One hour professional development: $500 + travel expenses

  • Half-day professional development: $1000 + travel expenses

  • Full-day professional development: $1800 + travel expenses

QUESTIONS? Contact us at education [at] sciencenorth.ca (education[at]sciencenorth[dot]ca)


FEATURED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

KINDERGARTEN STEM RESOURCES

Explore Science North’s new Kindergarten STEM resources through hands-on stations and engaging demonstrations. Educators will experience classroom-ready activities connected to colours and light, coding, nature exploration, data literacy, and materials science while discovering practical strategies to support inquiry, play-based learning, and curiosity in the Kindergarten classroom. Participants will leave with ready-to-use lessons, videos, and teaching ideas aligned with Ontario’s Kindergarten curriculum.


AVAILABLE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TOPICS

CODING AND COMPUTATION THINKING
  • LEGO® Spike
  • Micro:bit
  • Ozobot
  • Scratch
  • ScratchJr
PRIMARY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Earth and Space
JUNIOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Electricity
  • Flight
  • Light and Sound
  • Matter
  • Pulleys and Gears
  • Rocks and Minerals
  • Space
  • Structures and Forces
INTERMEDIATE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Fluids
  • Heat in the Environment
  • Pure Substances and Mixtures
  • Science Fair
HIGH SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Astronomy
  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Climate
  • Electricity
  • Optics

QUESTIONS?

Contact us at education [at] sciencenorth.ca (education[at]sciencenorth[dot]ca)

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