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Earth Science through Food, Games, and Art: Library Programming Ideas for Tweens and Teens

Earth Science through Food, Games, and Art: Library Programming Ideas for Tweens and Teens. Hands-on Science Activities. Presenters : Eve Halligan, Keliann LaConte, and Stephanie Shipp Technical Support: Ramiro Padilla. Resources. Connect to STAR_Net project resources !.

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Earth Science through Food, Games, and Art: Library Programming Ideas for Tweens and Teens

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  1. Earth Science through Food, Games, and Art: Library Programming Ideas for Tweens and Teens Hands-on Science Activities Presenters: Eve Halligan, Keliann LaConte, and Stephanie Shipp Technical Support: Ramiro Padilla

  2. Resources Connect to STAR_Net project resources! • Join the online community! Get access to resources, discussions and related opportunities. Contact: Anne Holland aholland@spacescience.org • Visit the project website at www.STARNetLibraries.org

  3. Explore Program • Create and distribute hands-on activities that • Are designed for the library • Rely on inexpensive materials • Can be flexibly implemented • Highlight Earth and space science and engineering concepts through investigations, demos, crafts, and facilitated conversations • Provide training to children's and youth librarians and other community educators • Funded by NSF and NASA

  4. Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region! • Activity 8: Polar Bears or Penguins? Hands-on Science Activities Facilitator’s Resources • Activity 9: Polar Bears Go with the Floes • Activity 10: Earth: Artistically Balanced • Activity 1: A Century of Change Display • Activity 4: I Belong to Earth

  5. Hands-on Science Activities • Each Region Is Unique • Changes to distant oceans, air moving freely around our globe, and all living things have an influence on our regional environment, now and in the past and future. • Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region! • Activity 8: Polar Bears or Penguins? • Your Home Is Changing • Earth’s water, ice, air, and life will continue to interact over long-term scales, shaping the particular features of that place we each call home. • Activity 9: Polar Bears Go with the Floes • Activity 10: Earth: Artistically Balanced • We Belong to Earth • Activity 1: A Century of Change Display • Activity 4: I Belong to Earth

  6. Our Home Is Changing… • …we’d love to have you join us for a respectful conversation about the science of global climate change!

  7. Our Home Is Changing… • …explore the science of climate change even more deeply through: Partnerships Facilitator’s Resources

  8. Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region!Ages 10-13 • Three projects: • Part A. Climate Postcard • Part B. Recipe for a Region • Part C. Changes to Come • Key Points • “Weather” vs. “Climate” • Climate makes your region special • Pen pal exchange — show how tweens living in another region have different experiences!

  9. Part A. Climate PostcardCelebrate Your Region’s Unique… Weather Wild Plants or Animals • Rain. Credit: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Hurricane. Credit: U.S. Global Change Research Program. Saguaro Cactus. Credit: Fish and Wildlife Service. Common Clothing and Gear Pika. Credit: National Park Service.

  10. Part A. Climate Postcard What would you draw on your postcard?

  11. Part B. Recipe for a RegionYour Region’s “Secret Ingredient” is…?

  12. Part B. Recipe for a RegionYour Region’s “Secret Ingredient” Is…? • Example: • Fiddlehead Ferns from the forests of the Northwest and New England/Mid-Atlantic • See the salad recipe in the • The Mitsitam Café Cookbook • Richard Hetzler, Fulcrum Publishing, 2010, ISBN: 155591747X

  13. Activity 10: Earth: Artistically Balanced • Hands-on way to visualize the science of the climate’s complexities… through art! • Flexible – May be created on a large scale or small • For Teens (14-18 years) • Several factors influence global temperatures (both natural and human-based) • Choose scale for models • Needs: Area to display artwork, art supplies (appropriate scale), Earth Climate Cards (Nature’s Balance & Human Influences) • What factors do you think we should keep in mind when developing a model of Earth’s climate? • Please use the chat box now to share your thoughts!

  14. --the interactive part! Partnership Discussion

  15. Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region!Part C. Changes to Come • Global climate is changing • Scientists predict that the average temperature will continue to rise over the next 100 years, perhaps as much as 3-10°F. • …how will that change the tweens’ postcards and recipes? • Change is normal…but not at this rate! • The changes are happening faster than during the last 10,000 years.

  16. Activity 8: Polar Bears or Penguins? • Know Your Poles... Take our Polls! • Do you know the difference between the Arctic and Antarctic? • Does your audience?

  17. Divide into 2 Teams • Match each card to the Polar Region • Arctic (N. Pole) • Antarctic (S. Pole) • Both • Play the Game! Fastest team wins!

  18. Activity 9: Polar Bears Go with the Floes • Human actions impact the global environment • As a team, tweens determine whether or not to save a polar bear on an Arctic sea ice floe.Everyone wins or everyone loses! • We have choices… • …Some choices require us to make changes in the way we live: • Take shorter showers • Replace incandescent bulbs with new, energy-efficient types • Walk or bicycle instead of asking for a ride • As a family, lower the heat in the winter and raise the temperature a bit in the summer • Tweens (ages 11-13) – and their families – can be global stewards! • Just like in the game, we all have to work together to make a difference!

  19. Activity 1: A Century of Change Display • Connecting your community to environmental changes • Invite community to submit photos • Historical (taken a century or more ago) • Contemporary (current) • Organize the photos into a display • Collect their feedback! • Hold an opening night! • Optional: Collect stories or archive the photographs collected Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park – 1900 to 1998.

  20. Past Present

  21. Reading Game: Ages 10-13

  22. Reading Log: Teens

  23. “Read Me” Bookmarks

  24. Ideas for making this your own!

  25. Further Resources www.starnetlibraries.org/resources.html Playful Building www.lpi.usra.edu/explore …and 9 other modules to explore other areas of science and engineering! Lunar exploration The planets Earth, Jupiter, and Mars Rockets Health in space … and more coming soon!

  26. Other Ideas… • National Girls Collaborative Project • www.ngcproject.org • Reach girl-serving organizations across the U.S. • NOAA Climate Stewards Education Project • http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/climate-stewards/ • Find a NOAA Climate Steward near you • Download educational resources

  27. --the interactive part! Implementation Discussion

  28. Thank you! Keep in Touch! • Feedback: http://erasurvey.org/survey3/SSTNT5.htm • STAR_Net Project • www.starnetlibraries.org • http://www.facebook.com/STARLibraries • https://twitter.com/STARNet_Project • ExploreDepartment of Education and Public OutreachLunar and Planetary Institute3600 Bay Area BoulevardHouston TX 77058explore@lpi.usra.edu

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