
By Isabel, Hugo, Alvi, and Felix
The Issue: Trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen so that animals, including humans, can breathe. They also contribute food and shelter to the ecosystem. What can humans do to help protect the ecosystem?


Isabel | Age 9
Favorite plant or animal: Cheetah
Favorite book: I Survived (whole series)
Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Playing on my laptop - Roblox
Favorite place or object in the Museum: Butterfly exhibit
What you like most about science: Gives me information and helps me understand more.
Advice to kids who think science is boring: It's not boring. It's really interesting. It's really informational.

Hugo | Age 10
Favorite plant or animal: Galapagos giant tortoise
Favorite book: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Favorite ice cream flavor: Lemon basil
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Soccer
Favorite place or object in the Museum: The gorilla in the rain forest
Advice to kids who think science is boring: Pollution also impacts them

Alvi | Age 9
Favorite plant or animal: Chinchilla
Favorite book: Land of Stories 1-6
Favorite ice cream flavor: Chocolate
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Read
Favorite place or object in the Museum: Unseen Oceans exhibit
What you like most about science: Learning new things and changing my thinking/hypothesis
Advice to kids who think science is boring: Science is all around you everywhere. If you have seen the Hudson River, it's pretty dirty, well people knew through science that oysters are water filters, so they dumped 1,000 oysters in, all because of science. That is one there are so many more.

Felix | Age 10
Favorite plant or animal: Dog, specifically a Teddy Bear Goldendoodle
Favorite book: All of Rick Riordan's
Favorite ice cream flavor: Mint chip
Favorite thing to do / hobby: Soccer, science, tennis, and "Zelda, Breath of the Wild"
Favorite place or object in the Museum: Hall of North American Mammals
What you like most about science: Learning how the world works and I especially love learning about animals. I also like being able to do scientific things without the internet.
Advice to kids who think science is boring: It's not! It's really fun to do experiments. One of my favorites was the watershed. We made our own mini watershed.
Image Credits:
AUDIO
News jingle, alexschmidtmeister via free sound/CC BY-NC 3.0; forest background, bajko via freesound/CC0 1.0; sucking, fuchsrodolfo via free sound/CC BY-NC 3.0; bird flight, Twiggie2000 via freesound/CC BY-NC 3.0; news jingle, jobro via freesound/CC BY 3.0
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Vectors, kisspng.com