Environmental Science

On Saturday, February 24, we hosted our Environmental Science workshop at City Heights Library! The girls learned all about the relationship between humans and the environment, including concepts such as predator/prey relationships and food chains. In our first activity, participants created their own food chains with energy sources, producers, consumers, and decomposers. Then, we discussed symbiosis and the different types of symbiotic relationships.

For the next part of the workshop, our focus shifted towards sustainability. After covering pollution and the damage it does, participants brainstormed methods of reducing, reusing, and recycling. Once they had learned what qualifies as recyclable, the girls took common trash items and decided which ones they thought were recyclable. After a quick break for snacks, we moved onto pollution, discussing the sources, the effects, and how we’ve experienced it in real life.
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Finally, the participants learned about biomes and different environments. Our last activity was a survival game to show how different adaptations help organisms survive in different environments. Dice rolls determined the traits of a moth for each participant, and then we went through different environmental scenarios such as temperature changes, predators, and more to see which combinations of traits survived the longest. Look out for our python workshop on March 16th!