Schedule & Session Descriptions

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    Audience: all ages

     

  • Professional geoscientists and their team, along with experts from the Edmonton Geological Society, will inspect your mineral, rock, and fossil collections and share all sorts of fun facts!
     
    Session TimesEvery 15 minutes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    Location

    Earth Sciences Building

    University of Alberta

    Edmonton AB

    Please remember to bring your own rock, fossil, and mineral samples!

  • Touch a meteorite and see minerals glow in the dark! View more than 2,500 minerals, rocks, and meteorites in this family-friendly space. Complete a scavenger hunt!

    Session TimesEvery 30 minutes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    Location

    Earth Sciences Building, Basement Room B-08

    University of Alberta

    Edmonton AB

  • Explore life through time: trilobites, dinosaurs, mammoths, a huge fossil tree stump, and more. Touch real fossils and find out how the University of Alberta acquired more than one million fossils over the past 100 years. Complete a scavenger hunt!

    Session TimesRuns every 30 minutes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    Location

    Earth Sciences Building, Basement Room B-01

    North Campus, University of Alberta

    Edmonton AB

  • Take a guided walk through the geology of Canada. Touch rocks from the Canadian Shield and the Rocky Mountains. Discover geological resources we use in our daily lives.

    TimeEvery 30 minutes from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    Location

    Earth Sciences Building

    North Campus, University of Alberta

    Edmonton AB

      Audience: ages 5+

    • Many people in Alberta get their water from underground, usually by drilling a well into an aquifer. But what is an aquifer? And how does water move through the soil and rock beneath our feet? In this workshop, you'll make your own aquifer in a cup, pump your own well, and find out why groundwater is an important part of the water cycle.

      Session Times

      12:15–12:45 p.m.

      1:00–1:30 p.m.

      1:45–2:15 p.m.

      2:30–3:00 p.m.

      3:15–3:45 p.m.

      Location

      Earth Sciences Building

      University of Alberta

      Edmonton AB

      Audience: ages 11+

    • Earthquakes are the sudden motion of the ground caused by the rapid release of energy in the earth’s crust.  Although uncommon, earthquakes are not absent from Alberta. In this session, you will learn how earthquakes are generated, what to do during an earthquake, and how common earthquakes are in Alberta and Canada.

      Session Times

      12:45–1:15 p.m.

      1:30–2:00 p.m.

      2:15–2:45 p.m.

      3:00–3:30 p.m.

      Location

      Earth Sciences Building

      University of Alberta

      Edmonton AB

      Audience: ages 13+

       

    • Join us for an in-person tour of the geophysics labs at the University of Alberta, with special access to the paleomagnetism and rock magnetism labs!

      You’ll learn more about geophysics surveys and equipment, Earth’s magnetic field, rock and soil samples, and more.

       

      Session Times

      10:30–11:15 a.m.

      11:35 a.m.–12:20 p.m.

      1:00–1:45 p.m.

      2:05–2:50 p.m.

      3:10–3:54 p.m.

      Location

      The Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS)

      University of Alberta

      Edmonton AB