Camp Photos

X-Oceans Outreach hosts a number of camps and visits classrooms across rural Nova Scotia. Scroll down for some updates on what we have been up to lately.

Photo of the X-Oceans Team

Some members of the X-Oceans Outreach Team with the new outreach van funded by NSERC PromoScience!
From left to right: Brianna Stewart, Dylan Noonan, D'Vaughn Powell, Codie O'Neil, Kathleen Glasgow, Lauren Viana, Laura Riendeau, Alinta MacLeod, Sarah Rokosh, Savana Delorey, Tavneet Kaur and Samuel Gyamfi. Missing from photo: Victoria Tweedie-Pitre, Gabriel Cozzi, Jennifer Van Den Heuvel, Erin Stevens, Katelyn MacNeil, Maryann Burbidge, Leah Rogers, Russell Wyeth, Tammy Rodela and Regina Cozzi. 

Students Practicing Dissections at the Nova Scotia Education Centre

 Dissections with Grade 11s at the North Nova Education Centre, April 2023

Grade 10 Students Smiling at the Camera While They are in the Lab
Students Performing Lab Experiments on Shrimp
Picture of Grade 10 Students at the Lab

Brine shrimp experiments with Grade 10s at Northumberland Regional High School, April 2023

 

Picture of Kids Holding a Hermit Crab

Learning about hermit crabs at H.M. MacDonald Elementary School, March 2023

Picture of Kids Holding Sea Cucumbers

Learning about sea cucumbers and their habitat

School Students Holding Sea Animals at the Paqtnkek Education Centre

Visiting with the Paqtnkek Education Centre, March 2023

Picture of School Students Holding Marine Animals

 Inspecting organisms up close

Picture of School Students Holding Marine Animals
Picture of School Students Holding Marine Animals

 Learning about chitons and their habitat

Science Literacy Week With X-Oceans, Human Nutrition and CMTOLC

Picture of School Students Inspecting Marine Animals and Studying their Body Symmetry

Marine animals and their symmetry

Picture of School Students Sitting on a Table Mapping the Ocean's Floor

Mapping the ocean floor

Picture of Students Showing their Model Mockup of the Ocean Floor
Picture of 2 Students Holding their Model Mockup of the Ocean Floor
Picture of 2 Students Showing their Mockup Model of the Ocean's Floor
Picture of 2 Students Showing their Mockup Model of the Ocean's Floor

Why bees prefer hexagones for their hives

Students Making Hexagon Shapes With Scrapes of Paper
Students Drawing Shapes on Paper
Students Studying Bee in Apiary

Live bees!

School Students in Lab

Why measurements are important in cooking and baking.

Students Learning About Fractions Using Pizzas

Designing pizzas and practicing fractions

School Students Preparing Pizza Dough
School Students Preparing Pizza Dough'
Pizzas Made by School Students

Fractions in pizza slices

X-Project Day Camp

School Students Holding Sea Animals
School Students at the Biology Lab doing Workshops
Group Picture of School Students in a Lab
2 School Students Experimenting with Dyes
School Students Observing and Touching Insects and Ants at the Lab
School Students on Virtual Reality

AG Baille Memorial School Day Trip

Group Picture School Students at the AG Baille Memorial School Trip
Students Around a Pond of a Blue Lobster
School Students Observing an Apiary
School Students Using a Microscope

Antigonish Education Centre - Ocean Outreach Week

Students at the Lab Touching a Crab
School Teacher Instructing Students on Starfishes
Students and Teacher at the Lab
Students at the Lab with the Teacher Observing a Live Animal
Students at the Lab Observing a Live Lobster

DR John H Gillis School Outreach Trips

Group Picture of Students at the Lab Around an Apiary
Students at the Lab Learning with Wood Sticks
School Students Using Protective Gear for Beekeeping
Students at the Lab Measuring Animals

Other Photos

Student Grabbing Live Sea Urchin
Students Grabbing Starfishes and Sea Urchins
Students Grabbing Starfishes and Sea Urchins
Students Grabbing Marine Animals

NSERC Promoscience Science Odyssey 2022

Students At the Lab Doing the Potato Experiment
Student With a Chemical Beaker Handling Slimy Red Substance
Students at the Lab Using Protective Gloves and Glasses
Students at the Chemistry Lab Preparing Red Substance Using Beakers
Student Observing a Sample Using a Microscope
Students on a Field Trip Around Trees
Students at the Lab Observing and Manipulating Seed
2 Students Using Protective Gear for Beekeeping
Promotional Poster to Science Oddisey Adventure
Promotional Poster to Science Oddisey Adventure

Learning about evolution; observing snapping turtle skulls and shark jaws

School Student at the Lab Observing and Learning About Shark Teeth Jaws

Learning about water bears (Tardigrades) and their adaptation to different environments

School Students Observing Water Bears on a Microscope

Learning about echinoderms and ocean acidification

Collage of 3 Pictures of Students Learning About Animals at the Science Camp Lab

Some of the X-Oceans facilitators 

Group Picture of 5 Students Visiting X-Oceans

The StFX Syrian Youth Summer Camp visits X-Oceans

Collage of Students Learning and Practicing their Knowledge at the Lab

Exploring the touch-tanks with X-Project & Show Me Your Math Day Camp

2 Students Grabbing Mockup Starfish Models
Student Grabbing a Sea Urchin

Learning about ocean zones and zooplankton with the Keen and Green Summer Day Camp

Students Using the Microscope at the Lab
Students at a Table Creating a Poster About Biology Topic

Sarah Silver Slater, Ella Maltby and Matthew Freeman promoting Science Literacy week at the Antigonish Library

Students Promoting the Science Literacy Week and Showing their Work
Collage of Students Grabbing Marine Flora
Collage of Students Promoting the Science Literacy Week and Showing their Work
Collage of Students Promoting the Science Literacy Week and Showing their Work

Learning about sea star anatomy

School Students Observing and Handling Starfish

Making slime and learning about marine animals that produce slime too.

Teacher With Students at the Lab

Learning about the role of the ocean in the climate system and making some clouds of our own.

Students Doing Experiments With Eggs

Exploring the marine touch-tank!

Teacher Instructing School Students About Starfish

Learning about sea urchins and tube feet

Students Learning With Live Sea Urchins at the Lab
Students Grabbing Sea Urchins

Biology students Emilie Knighton and Ella Maltby promoting ocean literacy during the Science Literacy Week science camp organized by X-Chem outreach in partnership with X-Oceans outreach (September 2019).

Students Grabbing Sea Animals

Learning about the anatomy and behaviours of decorator crabs, sea urchins and sea stars during Science Literacy week 2019.