Science Literacy Week @ McGill: Science at play!

We turned images from items in our Rare & Special Collections into digital jigsaw puzzles and colouring pages.

Jigsaw puzzles

Click on an image to access the puzzle:

Colouring pages

Here are images from our Blacker-Wood Collections to download and colour:

• Image 1
• Image 2
• Image 3
• Image 4
• Image 5
• Image 6

Highlights from the Science History Collections

Visit our digital exhibition on Flickr to learn what special collections can teach us about climate!

"Phillip Island Parrot" from John Gould's "The birds of Australia." London : Printed by R. and J.E. Taylor; Pub. by the author, [1840]-48. Blacker Wood Natural History Collection.

McGill Library Orientation Game

Enter if you dare...

Have you ever played a virtual scavenger hunt? It's loads of fun!

Take photos of any of the items on this list and tag both #SciLit and @McGillLib on social media.

Invite your friends and family to join in too.

Scavenger hunt list:

• Interact with old tech: cassettes, mini-discs, laser discs, rotary phone, etc...
• Find something with 'patent pending' or a trademark
• Animal tracks
• A native plant
• A native bird
• A rock bigger than your hand
• A cumulus cloud 
• Something made out of natural fibres 
• Someone riding a bicycle 
• Make a shadow puppet
• A rainbow 
• Something being reused or recycled
• Condensation
• A fossil
• A data visualization
• A DIY project
• An example of each of the 6 classical simple machines:
  • Lever
  • Wheel and axle
  • Pulley
  • Inclined plane
  • Wedge
  • Screw