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CFSD Plant Science Family Night

Ventana Vista School

Friday, October 2

5-8pm

.6085 N Kolb Road

Hands-on SCIENCE LEARNING CENTERS are designed for grades K-5 students.
5 Outside learning centers open at 5:30pm.
20 INSIDE learning centers open at 6 pm.
Free Parking and Free Shuttle Bus is available at Bashas at the corner of Sunrise and Kolb from 5 - 8 pm.
Food Trucks will be open at Ventana Vista from 5-7pm.
FRIENDS and family are all welcome to attend
Jack in the Beanstalk Growing Contest awards are announced at 7pm.

Every encounter is a chance to explore and to learn. Students observe with eyes of
curiosity, wonder at each learning experience and discover the mysteries of plant
science with experts! SCIENCE is FUN, join us with your family on October 2nd!

LEARNING CENTER ACTIVITIES: Nothing to Sneeze at - Pollination, Play with DIRT/Soil, Build candy model DNA, Extract DNA from fruits, Eat a Rainbow, Create an Earth
Bracelet, Build a Cactus Model, Propagate Cholla, Taste Prickly Pear Fruits, Build a Neutral Buoyancy Phytoplankton, Grind Grains we Eat, Taste Unusual Fruits, Count Tree
Rings, Whats the Difference activities, Eat bugs to learn about Sustainability, Meet a Master Gardener, Try your luck with the Chili Farmer, Build a LEGO Plant, OUCH- watch
those cactus SPINES, take home a plant and gather great ideas for your SARSEF Science Project. more to do than you have time.. Join the FUN of SCIENCE

LEARNING CENTER PRESENTERS: Tucson Botanical Garden, Arizona Genomics Institute, Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society, UA Optical Science, Magic Garden Nursery,
Heifer International, Curry Chili and Seed Farm, UA Desert Legume Program, UA Molecular/Cellular Biology, UA Tree Ring Laboratory, Sunlight Wellness, Desert Dolphin Dive Club,
SARSEF and STEMAZing Institute, Pima County Native Plants Nursery, UA Soil, Water Environmental Science, UA Plant Science Department and Arizona Genomics Institute

This event is sponsored by our VV FFO and University of Arizona AGI ins;tute lead by Dr. Rod Wing.
All scien;sts, researchers, local experts and organiza;ons are volunteers. caryljones@cfsd16.org