Educational Outreach

Perimeter’s programs for students and teachers have an enduring impact on participants and build important connections to the educational community. Perimeter provides educators with effective pedagogical methods to teach key concepts in modern physics and encourage critical thinking and problem solving. The Perimeter Institute educational outreach team creates new classroom-ready, curriculum-compliant resources in English and French to provide Canadian teachers with lessons and support materials to explain a range of important physics topics, including intersections with technology, engineering, and mathematics. Additionally, select resources are also translated into Portuguese and Spanish for Perimeter’s international teacher network. Perimeter currently offers 118 free educational resources available for download on the Resource Centre, including lesson plans, hands-on activities and demos, modifiable worksheets, background information for teachers, and original PI videos. Perimeter produced 3 new curriculum-compliant educational resources over 2024/25: Applied Physics, with hands-on activities to showcase real-world applications; Quantum Technology, an introduction to basic quantum mechanics; and a breakout activity Can You Build a Quantum Computer?  

Perimeter Institute also engages with science educators through teacher training via the annual EinsteinPlus teacher training camp, professional development workshops, and courses for Canadian teachers. EinsteinPlus is typically held in July every year, which falls outside of the truncated fiscal year for 2024/25; details of the 2025 event will be available on PI’s website and in the 2025/26 Annual Report. Top teachers are invited to join Perimeter’s Teacher Network, a growing network of PI ambassadors who review and classroom-test Perimeter’s new resources during the development stage, assist with planning the Institute’s educational activities for both students and teachers, and deliver workshops to other teachers in their home districts, greatly amplifying the reach of the Institute’s resources. Perimeter delivered 106 workshops to 2,306 participants both in person and online across the reporting year. 

Perimeter’s educational outreach programs provide support for teachers and educators across Canada, with particular focus on delivering both teacher and student workshops in remote, underserved and Indigenous communities. Perimeter held 16 GoPhysics! Workshops, reaching a total of 337 high school students, and 5 Physica Phantastica workshops to 211 elementary school students, including sessions for underserved communities in Yellowknife and Halifax. Additionally, in 2024/25 Perimeter began a new collaboration with Connected North, an organization that provides live, interactive virtual learning experiences and access to educational resources for students and teachers in remote communities, supporting them where they live.