Measuring water clarity
Learning about Lake Tahoe's food web,
including viewing microscopic zooplankton
Comparing sediment sizes and learning about urban runoff.
Children's Environmental Science Day
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 us for this amazing day filled with activities, such as interactive science demonstrations by UC Davis scientists and staff.
Please contact Heather Segale, education and outreach directors, at (775) 881-7562 or hmsegale@ucdavis.edu for more information.
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
Participating Partners
- Bear League
- California Department of Fish and Game
- California State Parks
- CalTrout
- Explore Tahoe
- Great Basin Outdoor School
- IVGID-Waste Not
- Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park
- Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care
- League to Save Lake Tahoe
- Nevada Project WET
- Parasol
- Placer Mosquito & Vector Control District
- Red Cross
- Rite of Passage School
- Sierra Business Council
- Sierra Nevada Alliance
- Sierra Nevada College
- Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships
- Space Science for Schools
- Tahoe City Public Utility District
- Tahoe Environmental Research Center
- Tahoe Maritime Museum
- Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
- Tahoe Resource Conservation District
- Tahoe Rim Trail
- Trout Unlimited
- University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
- University of Nevada, Reno
- US Fish and Wildlife
- US Forest Service
- Youth Conservation Corps
Getting to the Event
Directions to the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences are available here.