School Programs
Elementary 1st cycle Elementary 2nd cycle Elementary 3rd cycle Secondary
What are the school programs?
A program designed in line with the Quebec Education Program and put together according to a specific grade level centred on a given theme. The program is given as a workshop, under the supervision of an educator.
Elementary 1st cycle
Rock 'n' Roll Marbles!
Whirly collects marbles. He adores games that make his marbles fall, turn, roll and spin! The longer the marbles roll, the happier Whirly is! He challenges children to build runs with various fun objects to make his marbles travel a long time!
Length: 60 minutes
Teacher's Guide Rock 'n' Roll Marbles! (pdf)
Elementary 2nd cycle
Shhhh! It's Story Time
The challenge? Make the sound effects and do the lighting for a story.
To prepare themselves, the students participate in different experiments to discover the main characteristics of sound and light. They have fun practising sound effects with a variety of objects and exploring lighting effects with different projectors. Everyone go to your station—let's add sound effects and light to bring a tale of fantasy to life.
Teacher's Guide Shhh! It's Story Time (PDF)
Length : 60 minutes
Secrets of the Heart
The heart—life's vital organ.
Students take a tour of the heart by doing various fun activities. They learn how to situate it in the body, listen to it with a stethoscope, and see how it's made inside. They even have a competition with it! They also discover the benefits of technology by observing a children's pacemaker and become aware of the importance of the heart, life's vital organ.
Teacher's Guide Secrets of the Heart (PDF)
Length : 90 minutes
Elementary 2rd cycle
SOS Radio
An adventure to trigger your neurons
Take your students on an expedition to Nunavut! As it's landing, your plane appears to have an unforeseen surprise: the electrical system fails. Nothing works at all! What do you do? All teams must get to work. Electricity must absolutely be produced with the resources available such as water, wind, bicycles and airplane engines to make the radio work in order to send out the distress signal: S.O.S.!
Teacher's Guide SOS Radio (PDF)
Length : 90 minutes
Mysterious Machines
Pulleys, gears, levers...
How do you combine these elements to create machines that will operate strange creatures? As a team, the students are called upon to follow a plan to assemble the mechanisms, perform tests, and dress the mechanisms as creatures specially designed with daily reusable objects and, finally, make it all work. Let's get to work!
Teacher's Guide Mysterious Machines (PDF)
Length : 90 minutes
Secondary
Cycling is Hot! (Secondary 1, 2 and 3)
Summer 2050—it's very hot…
Dehydration, food poisoning, heatstroke, respiratory problems: these are the problems faced by a team of Quebec cyclists during an expedition. They must find solutions as a team! Make choices, carry out scientific tests and choose the best products to deal with health problems without increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
Teacher's Guide Cycling is Hot! (PDF)
Length : 90 minutes