The Couch Potato Lab
The Couch Potato Lab (CPL) are online episodes that cover curriculum-based content in fun and creative ways through experiments, demonstrations and activities!
Latest Couch Potato Episodes
Coding the Future II: Actua
Coding the Future survey, we take a closer look at the impact of household income on coding and digital technology attitudes and opportunities.
Coding the Future: Actua
It is important that youth not only know how to use these technologies but understand how they work and have the skills to produce new technologies in the future. This is digital literacy.
About Innovation and Design
Innovation is difficult to define precisely but for most people it involves “thinking outside the box” and “trying something different” in order to make things better. We might be enhancing a process, a tool, a system or an environment but the bottom line is that we’re not content with the status quo and want to make things better. And so we innovate..
A Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking
Have you found yourself asking, “what is design?” Sometimes the best way to understand design is to just dive in and experience it!
Ep 58: Couch Potato Lab Finale
You will not need a lab manual for this one! Just sit back, relax, and reminisce about a few of our favourite moments from the past 57 episodes. There will be drama, laughs, tears, awards, and bloopers as we take a look back on our show and how much it has grown since April when we first went live.
Seed Bombs
Bees are very important in our ecosystem as they help pollenate the plants around us and help with the growth of our foods and crops. In order to help the bees pollenate the world around us, create some seed bombs with wild flowers and plant them in planter boxes.
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Actua provides training, resources and support to its national network of members located at universities and colleges across Canada in the delivery of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education outreach programming. Each year, these members engage over 225,000 youth in 500 communities nationwide. Please visit Actua at www.actua.ca.
