Planning to participate in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day? If so, you are asked to register your children at hr.ucdavis.edu/Work_Life/tods. Then, via campus mail, the WorkLife unit will send "alien green" TODS wristbands for children to wear.

The TODS Web site also includes the day's full schedule; organizers advised that many activities require RSVPs, due to space limitations.

TODS events are open to all faculty, staff, students and their children. Release time is appropriate with advance supervisory approval.

Activities include:

Bike Barn — Bring your bike and helmet for a free safety inspection. Learn how to fix a flat tire. Free bike buttons to the first 100 children. 1-3 p.m., no RSVPs.

Bookstore — Start your day with a children's book reading. Meet a book buyer and learn how authors turn their stories into books. 9-9:45 a.m., bookstore, Memorial Union, RSVPs required.

Campus Recreation Youth Programs — Face painting and button making. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., lobby, Activities and Recreation center, no RSVPs.

Chemistry 'Magic' — A miniversion of the Chemistry Club's annual Picnic Day Magic Show. 3-3:30 p.m., courtyard, Chemistry Building, no RSVPs.

DNA and More — See how scientists decode the building block of life, and build a DNA model using Legos. Two tours: 11 a.m.-noon and 2-3 p.m., Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, RSVPs required.

Food Science — Demonstrations on food chemistry, food safety and sensory evaluation. 3:30-4 p.m., lobby, Cruess Hall, RSVPs required.

Geology Rocks! — Online, so no RSVPs required. Take an online tour of the campus's more interesting geological sites.

Microscope Services — Take a look at organisms as they wiggle on microscope slides, and get a microscopic look at everyday items from your own pocket, too! 1:30-4 p.m., 136 Haogland Hall, no RSVPs.

Positions Available! — Experience a "real" interview for insect keeper or healthy cookie baker. Prizes. 1-4 p.m., Human Resources Administration Building, Orchard Road west of La Rue Road, no RSVPs.

West Campus Greenhouse Tours — Of course, with greenhouses come seedlings, including Indian corn and popcorn, to take home for your own garden. Hutchison Road, west of Highway 113, go one-half mile and look for the "Vegetable Crops" sign; turn left on gravel road. Two tours: 1-1:45 p.m. and 2-2:45 p.m., no RSVPs.

Yum! Strawberry Tasting — Learn about UC Davis inventions and experience firsthand some of the tastiest. InnovationAccess, 1850 Research Park Drive, Suite 300, in south Davis. 1-2 p.m., RSVPs required.

More information is available from WorkLife, (530) 752-5415 or worklife@ucdavis.edu.