Butterfly Life Cycle - Preschool/Kindergarten
This activity introduces pre-school / kindergarten aged students to the different steps in the life cycle of a butterfly from egg, to caterpillar, to chrystalis / cocoon, to butterfly. The students also get to create and take home a butterfly or caterpillar craft.
Solids, liquids, and gases - Additional activities
Try out some additional activities that explore solids, liquids and gases!
The Dots
Students learn about how data in computers is stored and transmitted as a series of zeros and ones and complete an activity to represent words and numbers using just these two symbols.
Daily and Seasonal Changes
Students learn about daily and seasonal changes through group discussion, songs, drawing and interactive demonstrations.
What is your weight on another planet?
Perform a simple calculation to see how gravity affects your weight.
Circulation
In this activity, participants will explore the functioning of their circulatory system and how different activity levels impact it!
Penny Drops
Students will explore surface tension and how water molecules stick together to form a drop of water by dropping water onto a penny or any other small coin.
Nervous System - Neuron Highway
Students will send a ''message'', a piece of paper attached to an unmodified paper clip, along a string to demonstrate how the nervous system work.
How Many Students?
Students explore statistics by collecting data of their classmates names and seeing whether or not female or male names are longer.