Can be done at any nearby forest, stream, field or beach (different themes available).

Join Nanaimo Science for a guided nature walk, where students can explore local ecosystems up close! Our knowledgeable staff will meet your class at a nature spot near your school, bringing ID guides and binoculars to help students discover and learn about local wildlife. These 60 minute “walk and talks” are an engaging way to connect with nature, encouraging observation, inquiry, and curiosity.

Can be done on school grounds, or off-site at nearby treed areas

Learn about tree anatomy, and how to use their features to identify them and enjoy looking at specimens.
Younger students will take part in leaf rubbings and tree games; while older students will learn about hormones in trees, and their function.

Recommended sites: Departure Bay, Sebastian Beach, Neck Point Park.

Meet us at a local beach at low tide to explore the intertidal zone! Use our dip nets, ID guides and microscopes to observe creatures, seaweed, rocks and more.

Recommended time is 90-120 minutes at the beach

This Science on the Move program is available at Pipers Lagoon, Westwood Lake, Long Lake/Loudon Park, Aspengrove or Island ConnectEd schools.

Meet us at one our outdoor mapped spaces for a scavenger hunt all about using compasses, map interpretation, and orienteering.

Prices begin at $150 for 25 students

This Science on the Move program is best suited for classrooms or multipurpose rooms.

Students will be presented with a variety of safe solutes and solvents and use experiments and deductive reasoning to determine what their “mysterious” chemical components are.

This Science on the Move program is best suited for classrooms or multipurpose rooms.

During this program, students will discover the building blocks of a circuit: a power source, a conductive path, and an electrical load (motor). Students will adapt their learning from a Jitterbug to a Doodlebot who will draw on its own!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for classrooms or multipurpose rooms.

Learn what makes some bugs insects & the important role they play in our ecosystem. Inspect insects under microscopes & be bees in a pollination game!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for classrooms or multipurpose rooms.

Learn about salmon’s anatomy, life cycle and role in the food web. Older students will also focus on internal anatomy, while younger students will play salmon/predator tag!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for classrooms or multipurpose rooms.

This program will introduce making observations while students learn to use digital microscopes.

This Science on the Move program is best suited for outdoor spaces, such as the school yard or garden.  Indoor options are possible but please note that this is a messy program!

Students will build their own terrarium, learning about the oxygen cycle and the hydrologic cycle in a closed system. An introduction to biomes will also take part for the class, with a self-sorting game.  Students will discuss the needs of plants, and learn about how differences in soil, water, and light quality can impact their successful growth.

This is a premium program, $40 will be added for materials.

This Science on the Move program is best suited to indoor building in the classroom, followed by launching outdoors on a field, or indoors in a gymnasium.

Learn about parabolic trajectories in this fun workshop!  Students will be lead through a step-by-step building of their foam rockets (a take-home), and learn how to launch them safely.  Moving to the launch site, students will measure how far their rockets fly.  For teachers interested in teaching graphing, data sheets will be provided to record angle of launch vs. distance for a follow-up activity!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for classrooms or multipurpose rooms.

These mini bots are a great introduction to coding! Using colour codes with markers and paper, students can program Ozobots to follow paths, change speed and turn!

Currently a maximum of 22 Ozobots are available at once; please consider this before making a booking!

This Science on the Move program is best suited to classrooms where a dark environment can be created.

Why do some things glow in the dark? Explore light, “black light”, fluorescence, and more!  With teachers’ permission, we will also make a batch of glow in the dark slime for students to take home!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for a classroom or library.

Using real specimens, learn about local species, such as a bear, raccoon, and beaver.

Students will learn about different physiological adaptations and make hypotheses based on attributes seen in each skull.

Gentle hands-on activity!

Prices begin at $150 for 25 students

This Science on the Move program is well-suited to a classroom, library or multipurpose room.

Explore anatomy with our dis-articulated teaching skeleton! Adaptable to many grades, even kindergarten!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for a large classroom or multipurpose room.

Learn about lift! Students will build a simple whirlygig to consider wind resistance then make flying creations for the wind tunnel!

This Science on the Move program is best suited for large empty classroom, multipurpose room, or gymnasium.

Design and challenge your students with hundreds and hundreds of KEVA blocks, and Nanaimo Science guiding your creations!

This program is also well-suited to combined classes, or big/little-buddy classes!

School blacktop/yard during early fall, spring, and early summer months

In this program students will learn how to safely enjoy the unique properties of dry ice.  Students will learn about the various states of matter, explore vortices with our air cannon, and build their own model cannon to try out.

*Follow up activity: For in-school programs, teachers will get to retain the remaining dry ice; we will share a recipe for ice cream making.

This is a premium program, due to price of materials.