What's In the Dirt

A hands-on presentation that illustrates the importance of "dirt" to kids, showing that we’d all starve without healthy soil – tracing the origins of pizza as an example. We use hand puppets, wheat stalks, tomatoes and tubs of compost with live earthworms, beetles & snails to prove our points. We finish up with live, dirt-loving box turtles – all very hands-on.

Pond Wigglies

A program that shows how every individual member of both human and pond communities is necessary to the survival of each community as a whole. We use pond creature hand puppets and live specimens (minnows, tadpoles, crawfish, water turtles, etc.) from Houston Audubon’s Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary’s ponds to show children the wonder of pond life.

I Lava Geology!

This program teaches children that while rocks aren’t alive, they sure can move! Students will investigate metamorphic, sedimentary and igneous rocks. They will also discover important ways people use rocks. Program finale is a hands-on investigation, in which participants will work together to make their very own volcanoes, complete with plenty of molten lava!

Please contact the Audubon Docent Guild, telephone 713-464-4900. The cost is $75.00 per program.