TODS 2011

Programs

• LEGO DNA Models — The Genome Center offers a lesson about DNA, using LEGO building blocks. 10-11 a.m., 1005 Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility.

• The Nano World — A demonstration of the scanning electron microscope. 1 and 1:30 p.m. (30 minutes each), 108 Kemper Hall (basement). RSVPs required.

• The Tiny World of the Microscope — Presented by Microscope Services, showing microscopic organisms and mysterious insects. 1-3:30 p.m. (continuous), Heitman Staff Learning Center (south of the South Silo).

• School of Education Celebration — An interactive program of science and writing. 1-3 p.m. (continuous), courtyard between the School of Education and Sproul Hall.

Guided tours

• Activities and Recreation Center
• Aggie Stadium
• Bohart Museum of Entomology
• Botanical Conservatory (RSVPs required)
• Dairy Barn (RSVPs required)
• Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology
• Police and Fire departments (RSVPs required)
• Segundo Dining Commons (RSVPs required)
• Vegetable crops field and greenhouses (RSVPs required)
• Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (RSVPs required)

Self-guided tours

• Arboretum
• Campus Tree Walk — Featuring “a small sampling” of the university’s urban forest of more than 9,000 trees (more than 200 species) in and out of the arboretum.
• Department of Geology — A self-guided virtual tour, Geology Rocks! — featuring the campus’s most interesting geological sites.
• Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven
• Raptor Center

The arts

• Undergraduate Composers Concert — 12:05-1 p.m., 115 Music Building
• Shields Library art — A self-guided tour
• Spring exhibitions — C.N. Gorman Museum, Craft Center Gallery, Design Museum and the Nelson Gallery

Click here for the official schedule (including events that may have been added since the posting of this list). For each program or tour that requires RSVPs, a link will take you to the online reservation system.)

UC Davis goes BIG and small next Thursday (April 28).

It’s a big day for our children, ages 8 to 12, who will be our special guests on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. This year's theme is "Invent the Future."

The activities schedule includes a couple of opportunities to explore things that are very, very, very small. As in visible only through microscopes.

Other programs include an interactive program of science and writing at the School of Education; a DNA lesson, using LEGO building blocks; guided and self-guided tours; and the Undergraduate Composers Concert. Note: Some programs and tours require RSVPs; see the box at right.

Besides participating in organized activities, children are welcome to job-shadow their parents or others.

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day also includes something for parents: a talk on leadership in parenting, by Jamie Woolf, author of Mom-in-Chief: How Wisdom from the Workplace Can Save Your Family from Chaos.

The TODS organizers said Woolf's talk, designed for adults, will be from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the Hamilton Room in the Heitman Staff Learning Center (south of the South Silo). No reservations are required.

Then, parents can rejoin their children for a lunchtime storytelling program with Greg Begin, who is due to weave a tale of "Inventing the Future." This free program is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cabernet Room at the Silo.

More information

Video of 2010 Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day at UC Davis