Coming Soon: Virtual Super Stellar Friday--Carnivores and Climate Change
Join us Friday, August 7 at 7:00 PM as we explore the impact of climate change on local ecosystems in the next Virtual Super Stellar Friday!
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!
At Home for Earth Day: Make a Water Filter
Use common materials from your home and yard to make a basic water filter, and watch it work on muddy water!
Filtration is the process of separating solids from fluids using a a filter—a medium that only the fluid can pass through, leaving the solids “trapped” behind. Natural and human-made filters are all around us: paper filters keep coffee grounds out of freshly brewed coffee; HEPA filters capture dust particles in our vacuum cleaners; our kidneys even act as filters to remove harmful materials from our blood! In nature, dirt is naturally filtered out of water as the water moves through sand, soil, gravel. This is the process that we will be demonstrating today.
Distance Learning Module: Weather, Weather Everywhere: Part II (Other Planets)
Weather: it’s more than just a conversation-starter.
What causes weather, how do we study it, and what is the weather like on other planets? Learn all about it in today’s lesson, geared toward middle-school learners! Part 2 of 2.
Distance Learning Module: Weather, Weather Everywhere: Part I (Earth)
Weather: it’s more than just a conversation-starter.
What causes weather, how do we study it, and what is the weather like on other planets? Learn all about it in today’s lesson, geared toward middle-school learners!
At-Home STEM Activities: Make a Rain Gauge
Turn April showers into an opportunity for at-home science! In this all-ages activity, learn how to track rainfall using a simple homemade rain gauge.
Adult supervision required—sharp objects utilized in one step.
At-Home STEM Activities: Paper Mountains
Create your own world of mountains and valleys, and watch the effects of a rainstorm!
Appropriate for pre-k and up, with supervision (mess potential!)