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Preschool - Kindergarten

Physics Volunteer Activities

Make Your Own Bottled Music

Students see how different amounts of air and water in a space can change the way we hear sounds.

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Create a Sunprint

Students will use a special type of paper that is sensitive to the sun to create fun prints and designs on the paper using sunlight.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Nature Scavenger Hunt

Students will go on an outdoor scavenger hunt to find things related to nature and the environment.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Nature BINGO

Students will go outdoors to search for various natural objects and living things, and try to be the first person to get a BINGO.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Summer Time Bucket List

Students will do a variety of activities listed on their "Summer Time Bucket List" and try to check off as many activities as possible over the course of the summer break.

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Three States of Matter: Orange Soda

Students learn about the three states of matter and how they might interact in one system using baking soda solid and orange juice liquid in a cup to produce "orange soda" gas.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Butterfly Life Cycle (With Video)

Students build a life cycle of a butterfly and then watch a 10 minute clip from the Carleton University Butterfly Show.

Biology Volunteer Activities

Dynamic Dinos: Paper Bag Puppets and Cookie Mining

Students learn about dinosaurs with paper bag puppets and a fossil extraction activity using cookies.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Seed Dispersal

Students examine seeds, make predictions on how they disperse and create a simple seed carrier that flies like a maple key.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Blossoming Flower

Cut a paper flower, fold in petals and watch them blossom when in water.

Storytime - What If There Were No Bees?

Storytime - What If There Were No Bees?

Read "What If There Were No Bees?" and learn about the importance of bees and cross-pollination.

Volunteer Activity - Budding Biologists - Virtual

Budding Biologists - Virtual

Learn about the requirements for life, adaptations, habitats, and conservation.

Storytime - Butterfly Life Cycle

Storytime - Butterfly Life Cycle

Read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" and learn about the different steps in the life cycle of a butterfly.