Join Dr.  Mary Pickering from UMass Chan Medical School's program ScienceLive for a lesson on macroscopic and microscopic species that are alive.  Her team will bring soil and pond water from Dean Park, harvest micro-organisms from these materials, and then look at the samples under the microscope. They will talk about how scientists classify things that are alive, the relative sizes of living things, and then the students can use the materials to build/draw one of the species they see under the microscope, or create a “new species” with the attributes/traits they observe under the microscope.

For kids ages 8-12.