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Biology Volunteer Activities

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.

Chemistry Volunteer Activities

Solids, liquids, and gases - Additional activities

Try out some additional activities that explore solids, liquids and gases!

Information Technology Volunteer Activities

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.

Earth & Environmental Science Volunteer Activities

Daily and Seasonal Changes

Students learn about daily and seasonal changes through group discussion, songs, drawing and interactive demonstrations.

Astronomy and Space Science Volunteer Activities

What is your weight on another planet?

Perform a simple calculation to see how gravity affects your weight.

Health Sciences

Circulation

In this activity, participants will explore the functioning of their circulatory system and how different activity levels impact it!

Physics Volunteer Activities

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.

Health Sciences

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.

Mathematics

How Many Students?

Students explore statistics by collecting data of their classmates names and seeing whether or not female or male names are longer.