School Groups

Tourbillon likes to collect marbles and adores games where his marbles tumble, turn, roll and spin! The longer the marbles roll, the happier he is! He invites children to build marble runs with a collection fun objects. The challenge is to make the marbles travel for the longest time possible!

- Length: 60 minutes

Humanity must send a robot on a mission to find a new habitable planet. Sensor the Super Robot has five senses but needs to learn why humans need these senses and how they use them. Students must program and train Sensor and together they discover how our senses allow us to explore our environment.

- Length : 60 minutes

This activity asks students to create sound effects and lighting for an Indigenous tale. To prepare themselves, students participate in different experiments and have fun mastering sound effects with a variety of objects and exploring lighting effects with different projectors.

- Length : 60 minutes

Offered exclusively to special needs classes or schools located 80 km or more from the Science Centre.

In your classroom, build an invention that can move an object using wind power OR that will lower a bouncing ball to the ground without activating its lights.

- Length: 60 or 75 minutes

Pulleys, gears, levers... As a team, students assemble different machine parts, perform tests, and dress up the machines as creatures. An activity specially designed to use everyday reusable items.

- Length : 90 minutes

While on an expedition to Nunavut, your plane's electrical system fails! Your teams must get to work. You absolutely need electricity and you must find a way to produce it with available resources, such as water, wind, bicycles and airplane engines. You must make the radio work to send out you SOS distress signal!

- Length: 90 minutes

Offered exclusively to special needs classes or schools located 80 km or more from the Science Centre.

In your classroom, build an invention that can move an object using wind power OR that will lower a bouncing ball to the ground without activating its lights.

- Length: 60 or 75 minutes

Earthquakes are caused by the powerful movement of plate tectonics. Can you create structures able to resist these forces? Divided into teams, students build structures that meet precise standards and then test them on a plate that vibrates and simulates an earthquake.

- Length: 90 minutes

Students must participate in a debate about three, hot technological topics: resurrecting extinct species, protecting genetic information, and transhuman cyborgs. After taking a position, they then use a repository of scientific facts to support their arguments and validate their claims.

- Length: 90 minutes

Offered exclusively to schools located 80 km or more away from the Science Centre.

Build an invention right in your classroom that can move an object using wind power OR that can lower motion-activated luminous ball to the ground without lighting it up.

- Length: 60 or 75 minutes

Students must participate in a debate about three, hot technological topics: resurrecting extinct species, protecting genetic information, and transhuman cyborgs. After taking a position, they then use a repository of scientific facts to support their arguments and validate their claims.

- Length: 90 minutes

Offered exclusively to schools located 80 km or more away from the Science Centre.

Build an invention right in your classroom that can move an object using wind power OR that can lower motion-activated luminous ball to the ground without lighting it up.

- Length: 60 or 75 minutes

Schools and Special Education Groups 80 km or more away from the Science Centre.

Build an invention right in your classroom that can move an object using wind power OR that can lower motion-activated luminous ball to the ground without lighting it up.

This activity was the winner of the Télé-Québec’s 2019 "Coup de cœur " prize

- Length: 60 or 75 minutes

Offered exclusively to special needs classes or schools located 80 km or more from the Science Centre.

In your classroom, build an invention that can move an object using wind power OR that will lower a bouncing ball to the ground without activating its lights.

- Length: 60 or 75 minutes