Contextualized for Caribbean Classrooms
Discover exciting, hands-on science activities organized by Expected Learning Outcomes (ELOs), using local materials and culturally relevant Caribbean contexts.
Activities are organized by strand and ELO to help teachers easily find resources that align with specific curriculum outcomes.
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Waves, Light & Sound • 3 activities
Sound & Vibration - Caribbean Musical Heritage
🌴 Steel pan, one of the Caribbean's greatest musical inventions, was created in Trinidad from oil drums.
Visualizing Sound Waves
🌴 Using rice, a staple in Caribbean cuisine, to visualize sound waves connects science to everyday life.
Sound Walk - Natural vs Human-made
🌴 Identify sounds in the Caribbean environment: birds, wind in palm trees, waves, music, and vehicles.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.
Waves, Light & Sound • 2 activities
Light & Illumination - Caribbean Sunshine
🌴 With abundant Caribbean sunshine, this outdoor activity celebrates our natural light while exploring how we see objects.
Light Spectrum - Creating Rainbows
🌴 Connect to Caribbean rainbows that appear after tropical rain showers.
Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
Waves, Light & Sound • 2 activities
Materials & Light - Caribbean Animals
🌴 Create shadow puppets of Caribbean animals like the hummingbird, mongoose, or iguana.
Physical Science Activity
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
Waves, Light & Sound • 2 activities
Communication Devices - Sound Travel
🌴 Using coconut shells instead of paper cups connects this classic experiment to our island resources.
Warning Signals - Light Communication
🌴 Learn how Caribbean fishermen use lights on boats at night for safety and communication.
Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow and meet their needs.
Structure, Function & Information Processing • 4 activities
Biomimicry - Local Plants & Animals
🌴 Explore how sea urchins, hummingbirds, geckos, and coconut palms have inspired human inventions.
Life Science Activity
Caribbean Plant Adaptations
🌴 Examine how breadfruit, cactus, sea grape, and banana leaves are adapted to Caribbean conditions.
Camouflage - Survival Adaptations
🌴 Create artwork showing Caribbean animals camouflaged in beach, rainforest, or coral reef habitats.
Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behaviour of parent and offspring that help offspring survive.
Structure, Function & Information Processing • 1 activity
Parent-Offspring Relationships
🌴 Explore how Caribbean sea turtles, chickens, coqui frogs, and pelicans care for their young.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like their parents.
Structure, Function & Information Processing • 2 activities
Like Parents, Not Exactly - Plant Growth
🌴 Grow local plants like pigeon peas, okra, and sorrel to observe parent-offspring similarities.
Life Science Activity
Supporting science activities for Grade 1.
General Science • 3 activities
Physical Science Activity
Earth and Space Science Activity
Physical Science Activity
Choose an activity above to begin your scientific adventure in the Caribbean!
