TERC's Children's Environmental Science Day

Date: August 11, 2012
Time: 1-4PM
Location: Follow directions: http://terc.ucdavis.edu/directionsincline.html
Contact: Please contact Heather Segale, education and outreach directors, at (775) 881-7562 or hmsegale@ucdavis.edu for more information.
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Children's Environmental Science Day will be held annually on the second Saturday of August (August 11, 2012) at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences from 1 - 4 p.m. This free community event for children (ages 6+) and their families includes hands-on science activities designed to create an awareness of the unique ecology of Lake Tahoe and teach about the various areas of environmental science.

Join for this amazing day filled with activities, such as interactive science demonstrations by UC Davis scientists and staff.

Saturday Schedule
12–1 p.m.: Volunteer lunch
1–4 p.m.: Hands-on science activities for kids ages 6+

Activities

Action Coupons!
Algae aquarium and periphyton survey
Animal pelts, drawings, question and answer game
Animal Tracks of the Sierra Nevada
Arts & Crafts
Asian clams at Lake Tahoe
Bears
Birds
Conscious Consumers
Crayfish
Density
Disaster Science
Does This Belong in the Tahoe Basin? Sorting game
Dry ice activity
Feeding mosquitofish, mosquito emergence kit, hand-ons habitat display
Fish of Lake Tahoe
Fishing game
Fly-fishing and Fly-tying
Food web game
Green Living for Families presentation
Invasive species
Lake Tahoe Rain Storm & Water Quality
Leave No Trace
Let Wildlife be Wild
Live Animal Presentation
Macroinvertebrates
Drink Tahoe Tap Taste Test
Microscopic Explorations
Native Wildlife Facepainting
Pin the tag on the fish
Recycle Relay
Sediment - sorting, filtering and infiltration
Space Station
Stream table erosion
Tadpoles and wetlands
Tahoe Jeopardy Challenge
Tree Bingo
Tree Costume
Tree ID game
Walk with a Ranger-Nature Hike
Water quality
Water Quality: What Makes Tahoe So Blue?
Watershed model