Saturday STEM Challenge: Designing Alien Plants
In honor of National Wildflower Week, this week’s Distance Learning offerings are focusing on the plant world.
This week, we’re challenging you to flex your creativity! Learn about Earth’s biomes, and then imagine a distant planet and what it’s environment is like, and then create an alien plant that would grow on that planet.
At-Home STEM Activities: Pollinators--What Do They Do and Ways to Attract Them
In honor of National Wildflower Week, this week’s Distance Learning offerings are focusing on the plant world.
An animal that helps plants cross-pollinate is called a pollinator, and they are an especially important for farming and for the ecosystem as a whole. In New England, the most common pollinators are bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Let’s learn about why plants need pollinators and ways we can make the outside of a home an inviting space for this essential creatures!