Citizen Science - Volunteer to Learn

Trying to think of ways to keep your kids busy this summer?  Look beyond summer camp – how many woven bracelets or birdhouses do you need anyway? – and check out some great interactive citizen science programs.  Citizen science is a network of volunteers recruited to observe and collect data to help the scientific community learn more about environmental and ecological subjects.  Many citizen science programs are geared towards children and are easy to participate in.  Here are a few worth checking out:

• FrogWatch USA


• Project BudBurst


• Firefly Watch


• Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project


• Celebrate Urban Birds


• The Great Sunflower Project


• Spider WebWatch


• NestWatch


• Cooperative Weather Observer Program


• MonarchWatch


• Journey North


• Project Roadkill

Other citizen science projects can also be found at Citizen Science Projects.

Source: The Daily Green