Professor Kids Let's Science Summer Camp

16 July 2025

The Biocultural Education and Research Programme had the honour of engaging young minds during the 1st week of a 5-week Summer Camp hosted by Dinah St. Jean-Lorde of Professor Kids.

“Breathing With Life - The Invisible Air”

Was the theme that the camp kick started with, which had a focus on Biology and explored chemical reactions that occur in animals and plants, as well as how they utilize and release gases.

Describe a Plant

Here the campers were eager to describe all the parts of the plants that they knew:

  • Leaf

  • Stem

  • Flower

  • Fruit

  • Root

Breaking it down

  1. Sunlight

Plants catch sunlight energy using the green parts of their leaves, the green colours comes from a compound named chlorophyll. This chlorophyll acts like solar panels on the plant. Trapping that light energy.

  • Activity - Chlorophyll Leaf Rubbing Experiment (Spinach)

Breaking it down

2. Water

Plants then use their roots to take up water from the soil, the water travels through little veins in the plant to the leaves.

  • Activity - Water Movement through Plants (Celery)

Breaking it down

3. Carbon Dioxide

The Carbon Dioxide comes from the air, it enters the plant through tiny holes in the leaves called stomata.

Lastly

With these different things the plant can now make food, the food the plant makes is sugar, and that sugar feeds the plant.

Additionally, plants also make oxygen. They release that oxygen into the air and that is what we breathe!

Plant Power: How Leaves Save the World!

Was a fun, engaging science session by Programme Assistants Dr. Jamila Jones and Ms. Christa Padmore that taught campers how plants make their own food through a process called photosynthesis and how this silent superpower helps every living thing on Earth.