Biology

Let’s get messy and learn!

This week we will be exploring living things – the six kingdoms of living things, cells -the smallest unit of life and the components of living things – natural polymers.

Kids will be :

• experimenting with cellulose slime or methyl cellulose gunge!
• making a polymer clay model of a cell
• dissecting a flower
• collecting and
• visiting a local animal rescue or High Park Zoo – TBA

Focus on Women in STEM Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist, Author, & Conservationist, Rosiland Franklin, Chemist & X-ray crystallographer, Maria Sybilla Merian, the Mother of Entomology,Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, Zoologist