earth science through food, games, and art: library programming ideas for tweens and teens...
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Earth Science through Food, Games, and Art:
Library Programming Ideas for Tweens and Teens
Presenters: Eve Halligan, Keliann LaConte, and Stephanie ShippTechnical Support: Ramiro Padilla
HANDS-ON SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
Connect to STAR_Net project resources!
• Join the online community! Get access to resources, discussions and related opportunities.
Contact: Anne Holland [email protected]
• Visit the project website at www.STARNetLibraries.org
Resources
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
Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region!Activity 8: Polar Bears or Penguins?
Activity 9: Polar Bears Go with the FloesActivity 10: Earth: Artistically Balanced
Activity 1: A Century of Change DisplayActivity 4: I Belong to Earth
Facilitator’s Resources
HANDS-ON SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
Each Region Is UniqueChanges 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 ChangingEarth’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 FloesActivity 10: Earth: Artistically Balanced
We Belong to
EarthActivity 1: A Century of Change Display
Activity 4: I Belong to Earth
HANDS-ON SCIENCE ACTIVITIES
Our Home Is Changing…
…we’d love to have you join us for a respectful conversation about
the science of global climate change!
Our Home Is Changing…
…explore the science of climate change even more deeply through:
Facilitator’s Resources
Partnerships
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!
Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region!Ages 10-13
Part A. Climate PostcardCelebrate Your Region’s Unique…
Common
Clothing and
Gear Pika. Credit: National Park Service.
Saguaro Cactus. Credit: Fish and Wildlife Service.
Weather
Hurricane. Credit: U.S. Global Change Research Program.
Rain. Credit: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Wild Plants or Animals
Part A. Climate Postcard
What would you draw on your postcard?
Part B. Recipe for a RegionYour Region’s “Secret Ingredient” is…?
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 COOKBOOKRichard Hetzler, Fulcrum Publishing, 2010, ISBN: 155591747X
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!
PARTNERSHIP DISCUSSION
--THE INTERACTIVE PART!
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.
Activity 7: Celebrate Your Region!Part C. Changes to Come
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?
• Divide into 2 Teams
• Match each card to the Polar Region• Arctic (N. Pole)• Antarctic (S. Pole)• Both
• Play the Game!
Fastest
team wins!
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!
Activity 9: Polar Bears Go with the Floes
Activity 1: A Century of Change Display
Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park – 1900 to
1998.
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
Past
Present
Reading Game: Ages 10-13
Reading Log: Teens
“Read Me” Bookmarks
IDEAS FOR MAKING THIS YOUR OWN!
Further Resources
PLAYFUL BUILDING
…and 9 other modules to explore other areas of science and engineering!Lunar exploration
The planets Earth, Jupiter, and MarsRockets
Health in space… and more coming soon!
www.lpi.usra.edu/explore
www.starnetlibraries.org/resources.html
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
IMPLEMENTATION DISCUSSION
--THE INTERACTIVE PART!
Thank you! Keep in Touch!
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ExploreDepartment of Education and Public Outreach
Lunar and Planetary Institute3600 Bay Area Boulevard
Houston TX [email protected]