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Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Blossoming Flower

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

Earth & Environmental Volunteer Activities

Biodiversity and Ecosystems - Butterfly Mobile

Students will learn about biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as the energy pyramid, while creating a butterfly biodiversity mobile.

Earth & Environmental Volunteer Activities

Cookie Mining

Students mine for chocolate chips in cookies attempting to get as many chocolate chips as possible without damaging the cookie.

Engineering Volunteer Activities

Structures - 3 Pigs

Students build 3 houses - one of straws, one of sticks, and one of bricks - and then test each for strength.

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 - Bridge Bonanza

Binary Beads

Explore binary code and how computers use it to store information.

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.

Biology Science Volunteer Activity - Testing Reaction Time with Rulers

Testing Reaction Time with Rulers

Test your reaction time by catching a ruler.