Grades 7-8

Students will learn about biodiversity and ecosystems and create clay castings of leaves or seeds.

Learn about the properties of pure substances and mixtures.

Students build a paper glider and test it for forces of flight.

Students learn how greenhouse gases contribute to ocean acidification.

In this workshop, students learn about motion and how mechanisms are used to transform and transmit motion. Students will then use their creativity and imagination to design and build their own cardboard Automaton!

Explore through a hands-on activity how using technology and robotics can help tackle current environmental issues.

This activity is a virtual delivery option for the Tomatosphere: Setting up the Seed Investigation workshop.

Create your own unique snowflake!

Students will earn about the importance of the beaver to an ecosystem and biodiversity and debate a point of view.

Students will learn how the production of carbon dioxide contributes to environment issues such as ocean acidification.

Take on the role of Urban planner to design a system and resources to increase local access to food.

Students learn about the environmental impact clothing has, how fabrics are made and what a closed-loop sustainable clothing industry could look like in the future.

Learn about the clothing industry and the environment by solving a series of puzzles.

Students participate in a role-play to demonstrate the structure of DNA.

Make a DNA model out of candy!