OCDSB Inquiring minds Resources

A game that spotlights people, places and issues that had a dramatic influence on Canada's development. Engages players from grades 5 - 7 to experience life as a Chinese Canadian youth in 1911

This game is designed to be completed in under and hour

Find amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography along with fun competitions, games, quizzes, weird but true, and cool stuff and much more

The core modeler now available in a web browser for any Primary or Secondary school signed up with G Suite for Education. Students can use the program to create and render digital 3D models of objects, construction and design projects

Online learning tasks and projects with the Canada Agriculture and Food, Aviation and Space, and Science and Technology museums. Filter your grade through "Filter by grade level" Ontario drop down

These hands and minds-on activities can be enjoyed from the comfort of your home and require minimal resources.

Make a thaumatrope , Percussionality , String-o-lin , Whistle-o-phone , Compass , Solar still , Make a kazoo , Flipbook , Broken pencil illusion , Insulating sound

The largest digital source of stories and experiences shared by Canada’s museums and heritage organizations

Available in French

An interactive coding tool to create your own stories, games, and animations designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages

An interactive coding tool to create your own stories, games, animations and learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively designed especially for ages 5 - 7

Is a non-profit dedicated to expanding and leading provider of kindergarten to grade 12 computer science curriculum. Courses and activities are free, create an account to save your projects

Try your hand at one of these engaging engineering games and learn while having fun! Games for grades K-12 cover topics ranging from inventing and coding to environmental and electrical engineering.

Free interactive learning activities such as games, facts, experiments, videos and quizzes from living things, physical processes and solids, liquids and gases

Plus math and detective games

Expand your experience with the Math and English links

A selection of podcasts (30 min,) on topics from evolution to space to carbon

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