I may have taken part in this study with my kids at the Barnes Wetland Center last year. They had a kids ‘science’ event held during one of the school breaks, t

I may have taken part in this study with my kids at the Barnes Wetland Center last year. They had a kids ‘science’ event held during one of the school breaks, they had fun contributing to a “real” scientific experiment/survey. We dug a hole of a specific size in a grassy field (the shovel was exactly the right dimensions) and counted how many worms we found in the soil to a set depth. We found a few worms, don’t remember the number or what should have been normal. We also did a butterfly count there as well, which was less formal (not under guidance of a Wetlands worker). What was cool was meeting an amateur lepidopterologist at the time who pointed us towards several camouflaged cocoons in another area. Fun stuff.