Connect with the Dal Science community
The Faculty of Science is a busy place 鈥 between big public lectures, events for prospective students, and exciting seminars held across our departments, there is something for everyone.
We are committed to building pathways into post-secondary education, strengthening our connections with communities, and sharing our knowledge to contribute to the vitality and growth of our local,聽regional, and national economies, ecosystems, and environments.聽
Browse all聽 happening across the Dal Science community.
Discover Biology Days
Dates: May 4 and 5
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Suitable for Grades 8-12
Activity descriptions:
Nature Journalling
May 4 and 5
Suitable for Grades 8-12
Max 60 students/session
Students will get the opportunity to connect with the natural world through nature journalling and hands-on exploration of local marine life using touch tanks.
DNA Extraction & Gel Electrophoresis
May 4 and 5
Suitable for Grades 8-12
Max 60 students/session
Students will perform DNA extraction experiments from fruits and learn how gel electrophoresis is used to analyze DNA
Discover Chemistry Days
Dates: May 6鈥8
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.聽
Sutable for Grades 10 and 11
Max 100 students per session
Activity 1: Juice from Juice
Students will construct a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using blackberry juice as a light absorber. They will measure the voltage and current with different light sources and compare the results to a commercial silicon-based solar cell.
Activity 2: The Chemistry of Soap
Students will make a glycerin-based soap that they can take home. The molecules used to provide function, smell and color to soap will be discussed.
Discover Earth Sciences Days
Date: May 12-13
Time:听10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Suitable for Grades 7-9
Max 50 students per session
Participants will get the opportunity to learn聽about聽carbon accounting from rocks (geologic past) and trees (present day).聽
Discover Physics & Atmospheric Science Days
Dates: May 11-15, 19-21
Times: 10 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:40 p.m.
Suitable for Grades 6-12
Max 90 students per session
鈥 please note that due to the nature of the schedule for the activities, once signing up on Eventbrite for this specific Discovery Day, a representative from the Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science will reach out and confirm your dates and times.
Classes will participate in all of the following activities:
Discovery Room聽
Explores physics in action with hands- on activities, covering a large range of topics, including air flow over balls, freezing motion with a strobe light, recording the intricate motion of coupled pendula, acoustics of the voice, and more.
Earth Sphere
This 2m-diameter sphere projects detailed images of Earth鈥檚 atmosphere, oceans and underlying crust, as seen from space. The dynamics of weather systems, atmospheric composition, ocean currents, geologic formations, etc. are presented based on satellite data. Some direct demonstrations of atmospheric and climate physics.
Liquid Nitrogen Show
A unique set of demonstrations of the behavior and properties of matter: mechanical, electrical, and magnetic at cold temperatures (77K/-196C).
Included are such effects as a low-temperature piston engine, ringing a lead bell, liquefying oxygen, and superconductivity. Students will learn about properties聽of liquids and gases.
Halifax Planetarium
9 1免费版下 maintains Nova Scotia鈥檚 original, permanent and popular聽planetarium; over 3,000 people visit it yearly. This show takes students on a聽tour of the changing night sky, including constellations currently visible and the sky they cannot see from Nova Scotia. Objects of astronomical significance, including planets and stellar objects, are presented via slides.
Discover Psychology and Neuroscience Days
Dates: May 5, 6, and 22
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Suitable for Grades 10-12
Human-Human Interface
Dates: May 5 and 6
Suitable for grades 10-12
Max 50 students per session
Students will challenge their perceptions, test their memory, learn about the brain, and even get a chance to take control of someone else鈥檚 mind.
Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI)
Date: May 22
Suitable for Grades 11 and 12
Max 25 students per session
Students will get hands-on experience recording electrical activity from the brain using EEG (鈥渂rain waves鈥 measured with electrodes placed on the head). We鈥檒l highlight features of the brain activity we can see with EEG and demo some BCI applications.聽
Discover SuperNOVA Days
Dates: May 25-28
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Suitable for Grades 10-12
Max 30 students per session
What if you could generate your own clean energy and use it to power a car?
In this Discovery Days session, high school students will design and build working wind聽turbines, and聽use聽Micro:bit聽technology to measure the electricity they produce.聽They鈥檒l聽test, refine, and explore what it takes to harness wind power in real communities.
Participants will take their renewable energy even further - using water and聽electrolysis,聽they鈥檒l聽produce hydrogen fuel and build hydrogen-powered cars, discovering how clean electricity can be stored and used to drive the future of transportation!
This interactive workshop highlights how renewable energy and emerging fuel technologies are聽shaping聽a more sustainable future.
