Posts Tagged ‘science’

How Long Coronavirus Lives on Surfaces (Seeker Video)

From Seeker, click here to subscribe to their channel. As the novel coronavirus accelerates across the United States, and we continue to practice social distancing, you might find yourself staring at countertops, door handles, and packages wondering if they’re safe to touch, or whether they could [Read more]

Canada Summer Jobs 2017: Deadline to Apply Extended

Canada Summer Jobs 2017: Deadline to Apply Extended

Deadline to apply extended for Canada Summer Jobs funding has been extended to February 3rd, 2017! Are you a small business owner or running a not-for-profit? Do you need some extra boots on the ground during the summer of 2017 – Canada’s 150th anniversary year? Why not join thousands of other [Read more]

Science North Brings Excitement to Elementary Education in Manitouwadge

Science North Brings Excitement to Elementary Education in Manitouwadge

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Recently Manitouwadge Public School students and staff enjoyed a visit from Science North out of Sudbury.   Learning about Science from a textbook is great but actually seeing the wonders of Science in motion gives a whole new understanding to that part of our world.  [Read more]

Canadian Students Win Top 2 Prizes At International Secondary School Science Fair

Canadian Students Win Top 2 Prizes At International Secondary School Science Fair

From the Editor:Thanks to one of ONN’s readers, scroll down to the comments below the article to learn about the Northwestern Ontario connection to this story! From: Society for Science and the Public The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a program of Society for [Read more]

Échange de la nature

Échange de la nature

RED LAKE, ON – Le Red Lake Regional Heritage Centre et Science Nord collaborent à nouveau pour offrir à la localité de Red Lake de nouvelles expériences pour visiteurs. À titre d’importante attraction touristique et de moteur clé du tourisme dans le Nord de la province, Science [Read more]

HSCDSB Schools Claim Three First Lego League Awards

HSCDSB Schools Claim Three First Lego League Awards

SAULT STE. MARIE, ON –  Holy Family Catholic School picked up two awards and Holy Cross Catholic School one in the First LEGO League (FLL) Robotics competition held last Saturday at Sault College.   The team from Holy Family was awarded the “Best Robot Design” and [Read more]

Science North at Manitouwadge Public School

Science North at Manitouwadge Public School

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Recently Manitouwadge Public School students were treated to a very fun and educational event in the gym.  They  took part in a series of science experiments under the direction of Science North.   Students learned using a variety of gadgets, wires and pulleys.  [Read more]

Holy Angels School Science Fair

Holy Angels School Science Fair

SCHREIBER, ON – Wednesday, March 6, 2013, Holy Angels School hosted a Science Fair for students from .  The students hypothesised, tested and presented wonderful projects on many interesting topics which included:  structures, magnets, electricity and liquids – to name a few.  Winners [Read more]

OLOL Students Study Solar Energy Created at School

OLOL Students Study Solar Energy Created at School

  MANITOUWADGE, ON – At Our Lady of Lourdes School, solar panels were installed to create energy for our school.  A large television creen tracks the amount of energy created by our solar panels every day.   Students from Mrs. Gillman’s grade 5 class wanted to investigate data [Read more]

Thunder Bay & Soo Residents Among 27 Appointees Named To Ontario’s Highest Honour

Thunder Bay & Soo Residents Among 27 Appointees Named To Ontario’s Highest Honour

Three-time Toronto Mayor, David Crombie, former Ontario opposition leader John Tory, and popular bilingual children’s educator Suzanne “Marie-Soleil” Pinel are among 27 Ontarians being appointed to The Order of Ontario. The appointees were chosen for their contributions to the [Read more]

Thunder Bay’s David Shannon named to province’s highest honour

Thunder Bay’s David Shannon named to province’s highest honour

GRAVELLE CONGRATULATES LOCAL LAWYER ON APPOINTMENT TO ORDER OF ONTARIO Local lawyer David Shannon’s contributions to human rights and advocacy for people with disabilities will be recognized with Ontario’s highest honour at Queen’s Park this week, MPP Michael Gravelle announced today.   “I [Read more]

Homeschool – Science of the swamp

Homeschool – Science of the swamp

Well, kind of, we weren’t actually in a swamp but rather on the shore of Manitouwadge Lake.  To read the article I submitted to the Chronicle & Echo after this adventure, click here: http://www.karinahunter.com/?p=4138 Emeraude and I heard that the tadpoles had arrived @ Lion’s [Read more]

Excessive noise, late night in Manitouwadge

Excessive noise, late night in Manitouwadge

  Late night noises in Manitouwadge by Karina Hunter   Residents of Manitouwadge will be privy to an uninvited auditory performance. As July ends, residents may need to close their windows at night to keep out the increasingly raucous, high pitched sound of croaking frogs that make their home on [Read more]

Investigating a hoax – SteveSpanglerScience.com

This week’s Steve Spangler video is really cool, as per his usual. Watch as he investigates the validitaty of  and email claiming that “Mento in Ice +Pepsi” was a hoax. Gotta love how thourough he is even with something like this which does not come from the scientific community [Read more]

Making recycled paper…

Making recycled paper…

I had bought this kit for Vickie’s kids as a thank you to her for having driven us to Thunder Bay. In hindsight I could have purchased one for Emeraude right away also – if you’re interested, they’re at Walmart – because I knew it was something almost any child would [Read more]

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