How can kids use the scientific method to develop better, higher flying paper rockets, or, better yet, shock the administrators on the third floor? It's easy! For the last several years, I've been doing stomp rocket programs at my library. Whether it's during summer reading club or in the middle of the school
Last week my Crafternoon participants (with a few moms and one teen-aged sister included) enjoyed a paper plane tournament. It was a wonderful, low cost, quick prep program which everyone enjoyed thoroughly. I collected all the paper airplane books that my library system owned, added quite a few that I bought online, and had them laid
I recently received this e-mail from Christine Shupla, with the Lunar and Planetary Institute. I hope she doesn't mind my forwarding her announcement. I've attended some of these webinars in the past, and they are fantastic, as well as a lot of fun! I remember one where we created the phases of the moon by
What can you do with a group of kids, corrogated cardboard, a lot of beads, pipe cleaners, and some masking or decorative duct tape? Make abaci, of course! With a little bit of preliminary work, this is a craft program
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One aspect of the Lunar and Planetary Institute is the Center for Lunar Science and Exploration. The Center offers libraries a number of traveling exhibits on a variety of themes related to the moon, earth, asteroids, and other astronomical subjects. Libraries can request exhibits on-line and they are provided on a first come,
Keliann LaConte, with the Lunar and Planetary Institute, allowed me to pass this great info along to any StarNET folks who may be interested. They all sound like great opportunities to learn from and work with the experts in various fields of science and research!! PARTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES: Virtual Chats with NASA Engineers Schedule
It's September, and here in the South the days are a little bit cooler, and the wind is picking up. It's the perfect time to spend a day riding the wind with a kite or two. It's even more fun to proudly display and fly a kite of your own design and making. This
Over this past summer my department added a regular Gadget Lab to our Summer Reading Club programming. I had the opportunity to offer Kindle Fire HDs and iPad Minis for my school-aged participants to learn to use and play with. Initially the program was offered every other week, but an advertising mistake gave me
For anyone who hasn't heard of Bedtime Math or Crazy 8's Club, they have quite a lot to offer to kids, parents, afterschool program providers, and public children's librarians. I wrote about their newest Crazy 8's Club kit earlier. Here I want to mention what is offered in the first volume kit, which is still available
