Three Little Pigs and the Budding Architects
Skokie Public Library’s experiential learning space, the BOOMbox, focuses on a different STEAM theme every four months, providing tools and inspiration to learn more about [...]
What If? to Oh Cool! The Scientific Method Put to Work Launching Stomp Rockets
How can kids use the scientific method to develop better, higher flying paper rockets, or, better yet, shock the administrators on the [...]
Week of Making
The following text is from a White House press release on the Week of Making (June 17-23). Libraries are invited to share their plans for [...]
Paper Airplane Challenge!
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 [...]
An Even Briefer History of Time – Time, Deep Time, and The Enormity of Space
--This is the full version of an article that originally appeared in the Anythink Library System Newspaper-- Have you ever noticed that the older you [...]
Host a BioBlitz at the Library
BioBlitz participant examining a planter with a magnifying glass. As part of Earth Day celebrations, the Skokie Public Library hosted a BioBlitz, inspired [...]