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...

Visit our temporary digital exhibition on Flickr to celebrate Science Literacy Week 2020.

"Tiger" from the Taylor White Collection. By Peter Paillou, c.1720-90. 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