Citizen Science at the Library: Science Action Club
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to take part in a great program sponsored by the California Academy of Sciences. It’s called the Science Action Club. There are actually three different modules, or...
View ArticleMay the Fourth be With You: Star Wars Day at the Library
It’s Star Wars Day! I know that it’s giving away my age, but I remember when the very first Star Wars movie came out. I watched it from a swing-set in the small, fenced-in playground at the foot of...
View ArticleMaking Coding Fun and Easy
This year I started adding something new to some of my programs – coding. It has been a whole new adventure for me. When I was in school, computers in education were a new concept. There was a room...
View ArticleA Visit With Master Artists and Teachers – Michael LaFosse and Richard Alexander
A local museum is hosting an exhibit entitled “Origami in the Garden” until March of 2019. It’s a fantastic series of metal sculptures based on origami designs scattered throughout the gardens of the...
View ArticlePumpkin STEMs!
STEM programming and Halloween just sort of naturally go together. But I was looking for a slightly “less gross” way to connect the two. Building and pumpkins don’t seem to normally go in the same...
View ArticleInfiniscope Activity for the Super Blood Wolf Moon Lunar Eclipse
Happy New Year everyone! For anyone interested in space, space exploration, astronomy, and NASA, this year has begun with a bang! Just after the new year began on the east coast, the New Horizons...
View ArticleSTAR Net + Infiniscope = Great Resources and Activities!!
Next Wednesday (January 23) two great resources will be coming together to help teachers and public librarians unite to create a wonderful summer experience for children all across the United...
View ArticleMake a Hand, Then Try It Out – DIY Robotic Hands
Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit another branch and do some programming. My colleage challenged me to come up with an activity that would get the tweens off of the internet...
View ArticleRobotics With Cubelets
Over the last year or so, I’ve done a number of programs using Cubelets. For anyone unfamiliar with them, they are cube-shaped modules that connect to one another magnetically to create ‘robots.’...
View ArticleArt Magic With Markers
I’ve had the opportunity lately to do something that I haven’t been able to do in a very long time – ART! There are few things as much fun as taking brilliant colors mixing them on paper to create...
View ArticleFebruary is Feed the Birds Month!
On February 23, 1994, February was declared ‘National Bird Feeding Month’ by Congress. If you want to narrow things down to one day, February 3 is ‘Feed the Birds Day.’ February is one of the hardest...
View ArticleBuild Your Own Solar System and Resource Update
Hello everyone! I hope everyone is healthy and at home. To start off, I want to share this really cool resource I found this morning, and which has kept me distracted (granted that isn’t hard to do)...
View ArticleA Chill in the Air and Color in the Trees
There’s been a bit of a chill in the air the last week or so, a frequent thumping on the roof of pecans falling out of the tree in the yard, and a sense of frantic feasting radiating from the...
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