UBC Resources
- Beaty Biodiversity Museum:
- Beaty@Home: Join weekly on Wednesday afternoons for a live (Zoom) Beaty@Home session, where Beaty interpreters will be joined by a special guest! Learn about biodiversity research, collections work, and amazing people. https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/whats-on/calendar/
- Plethora of resources, many of which can be done at home (includes colouring pages up to nature ID guides and full lesson plans) https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/learn/educator-resources/.
- Online exhibitions: includes our Researchers Revealed content https://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/whats-on/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/
- Youtube channel – includes videos from 1 minute + that span short snippets, researchers revealed, past talks, etc. https://www.youtube.com/user/beatymuseum
- Geering Up Online Programs: https://geeringuponline.apsc.ubc.ca/
- Daily YouTube Livestream 11am https://youtube.com/GEERingUp
- Teacher Pro-D for Online Instruction https://geeringuponline.apsc.ubc.ca/teachers/pro-d-training-for-online-instruction/
- Weekly Homework Club https://geeringuponline.apsc.ubc.ca/families/homework_club/
- Online Activity Club https://geeringuponline.apsc.ubc.ca/families/online-weekend-events/
- Pacific Museum of Earth:
- Resources, activities, and workshops: https://pme.ubc.ca/learn/educator-resources/
- Virtual museum gallary, mineral catalogue, and other upcoming event announcements: https://pme.ubc.ca/connect/news/
- Rural eMentoring BC: a free online mentoring program for rural youth. The program is coordinated from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UBC https://www.ementoringbc.com/
- UBC Physics & Astronomy:
- Curation of physics and astronomy activities that can be done at home https://www.pinterest.ca/ubcphas/physics-astronomy-hands-on-demo-k-12/
- Hands-on physics activities that children can do at home. Physicists & astronomers will be available to answer questions. https://outreach.phas.ubc.ca/phenomenal-physics-astronomy-at-home/
- UBC Faculty of Science: Online science education + activities for kids blog post https://medium.com/ubcscience/online-science-education-activities-for-kids-83c755007d4
Non-UBC Resources & Activities
Please note that the following websites are non-UBC websites; some pages might update or change without informing us. If you notice broken links, please let us know by emailing stem.outreach@ubc.ca.
- Twitter: #museumsathome #scienceathome #steameducation #stemeducation
- Ocean Wise: learning online with Ocean Wise and the Vancouver Aquarium https://ocean.org/
- Canada Space Agency: fun activities and resources https://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/activities/default.asp
- Association of Science and Technology Centres: online programming, info around COVID-19 https://www.astc.org/coronavirus/educationalresources/
- Calorado University online physics simulations: https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics
- Exploratorium online learning: https://www.exploratorium.edu/
- Monterey Bay Aquarium: live streams/Q&A series: https://www.facebook.com/montereybayaquarium/
- Let’s Talk Science Challenge Online: https://letstalkscience.ca/events/challenge-online
- Little inventors: platform for children sharing ideas and creativity https://www.littleinventors.org/
- Physics YouTube Videos:
- Physics Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aaXZDazPxs&feature=youtu.be
- Minute Physics: https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics
- Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium
- Remote Ocean Science Education: http://davidshiffmancv.com/index.php/remote-science-education-during-covid-19-school-and-museum-closures-i-can-help/
- Royal BC Museum Learning Portal: https://learning.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/
- Santa Cruz Museum list of arts/museums/activities: https://santacruzmah.org/blog/art-resource including https://artsandculture.google.com/explore
- Science Friday Podcast: https://www.sciencefriday.com
- Science World online resources: https://www.scienceworld.ca/resources/
- SFU Physics Outreach Website: https://www.sfu.ca/physics/outreach/activities2007/bytopic.html
- Smithsonian distance learning: https://learninglab.si.edu/distancelearning
- STEM@Home- document with lots of updates, soon to be webinars, many many resources: https://stemecosystems.org/covid19-resource-library/
- Tennessee Aquarium: Fun activities and resources for an at-home Aquarium experience https://www.tnaqua.org/aquarium-at-home/
- The Kid Should See This: Curation of videos that are educations and kid-friendly – https://thekidshouldseethis.com/
- UC Berkeley Understanding Science, Evolution, and global change: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/, https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/home.php https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/understanding-global-change
- US Field Museum (Chicago) online resources: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/experience-field-home
- Zooniverse (citizen science): participate in research of all kinds, from classifying galaxies to counting penguins to transcribing manuscripts: https://www.zooniverse.org/