Brainspace

Academic print magazine with augmented reality features. Brainspace challenges young minds to think beyond the bricks and mortar of the classroom. Interactive with tablets and phones, digital content is triggered from the images on the print pages of each issue. 36+ pages of content.

Brainspace

MARC GARNEAU • A MAN ON A MISSION TO INSPIRE OTHERS

GO CANADA! • Did you know Canadians have brought many scientific discoveries and inventions to the world? Some of the most important are hinted at in the quiz below – can you figure out the answers? Use Zappar to view the correct answers.

15 CANADIAN INVENTIONS Big and Small • Many things now used around the world were invented in Canada!

METEORITES

MAD SCIENTISTS AND THEIR CRAZY SCIENCE • Scientists are known for being creative thinkers. To come up with revolutionary theories and imaginative new ideas, you really have to think outside the box. But sometimes, scientists think so far outside the box that their ideas can seem… a little crazy! From strange pets to wacky experiments, here are a few of history’s oddest scientists.

WHEN PEE MADE SCIENCE HISTORY!

Prehistoric POOP • Would you spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy a piece of poop? What if it was poop that came from a dinosaur? Pieces of preserved dino dung, also called coprolites, are extremely valuable to scientists. Since we can’t observe the eating habits of living dinosaurs, coprolites are the only clues we have to understand what was going on in the stomachs of these ancient creatures.

DINOSAUR VS. NON-DINOSAUR • For years, children's books lumped prehistoric animals together and called them the Greek word for “terrible lizard”:

UNDERWATER VOLCANO EXPLOSION • Axial Seamount’s last three eruptions occurred between January and April, a time of year when Earth is moving away from the sun.

UNDER THE SEA • Aquatic Food Chain

PARTICLE PHYSICS AND ANCIENT SHIPWRECKS

Probability, Risk and Reward

PATTERNS IN NATURE

Nature's Masters of Disguise ANIMAL MIMICRY

Is it ALIVE? Investigate with MRS GREN

HOW DO PLANTS BREATHE? • A word that is similar to stomate and stomata is stoma. A stoma is an artificial opening added through surgery that connects to a human’s digestive or urinary system. Similar to how stomata expel oxygen from a plant, a stoma can help a person with problems in their gastrointestinal system expel waste from their body.

HOW ANIMALS BEAT the HEAT

ICE-COLD HEAT

KEEPING IT COOL