Polar Opposites
Conduct experiments to uncover why oil & water don't mix but will create a cool mini lava lamp.
Polar Opposites
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10 FROM 5:00-6:00 PM
AT NORTHEAST BRANCH
STEMventure Test
STEMventure are learning-focused, and feature science standards and research-based practices, which provide students with hands-on STEM experiences that eliminate lost learning time of traditional STEM field trips.
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January Lessons
Matter Monsters
Scream in delight as the chemical reactions create a "monster" that goes through a major matter change.
Matter Monsters
MONDAY, JANUARY 15 FROM 4:00-5:00 PM
AT MAIN LIBRARY CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT
Savvy Circuits
Calling all inventors! You will create a cell that will become part of a homemade battery. Then you'll build a simple circuit to create your very own motorized invention.
Savvy Circuits
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17 FROM 3:30-4:30 PM
AT NORTHWEST BRANCH
Slime Time
You can never make enough of this stuff! We'll cross-link our way through non-Newtonian fluids as we make both fluffy and chalkboard slime.
Slime Time
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24 FROM 5:00-6:00 PM
AT NORTHEAST BRANCH
Slime Time
You can never make enough of this stuff! We'll cross-link our way through non-Newtonian fluids as we make both fluffy and chalkboard slime.
Slime Time
MONDAY, JANUARY 29 FROM 4:00-5:00 PM
AT SOUTHEAST BRANCH
Lessons By Location
Main Library Children’s Department
Mondays 4pm-5pm
February 12th – Polar Opposites
March 11th – Polymer Magic
March 18th – Rockin Rainbows (Family Event)
April 8th – Secret Colors
April 15th – Savvy Circuits (Family Event)
May 13th – Water Rules
May 20th – Extreme Storms (Family Event)
June 17th – Bubble Blast Bonanza
July 15th – Sunny Slime
August 12th – Blast Off
September 16th – Art with a Spin
October 14th – Tall Towers
November 11th – Slime Time
December 9th – Catapult Craze
Northeast Branch
Wednesdays 5pm–6pm
February 14: Matter Monsters
February 28: Tall Towers
March 13: Take a Deep Breath
March 27: Polymer Magic
April 10: Extreme Storms
April 24: Art with a Spin
May 8: Bubble Blast Bonanza
May 22: Rockin’ Rainbows
June 12: Blood is Thicker Than Water
June 26: Sunny Slime
Southeast Branch
Mondays 4pm–5pm
February 19: Blood is Thicker Than Water
March 25: Art with a Spin
Lesson Descriptions
Build your own spin art machine to create awesome art using science! You’ll complete a circuit to transform energy into art and power your own machine.
Use Bernoulli’s Principle to conduct experiments that demonstrate the amazing effects of air pressure.
Explore Newton’s Third Law of Motion by having a balloon rocket race, then build and launch your own stomp rocket that uses the power of air.
Your family is your blood. But what is blood? Learn all about that red liquid that is so important to our bodies, learn how bruises form, then make a batch of edible blood.
Mix up a bubble solution with a special ingredient to make longer lasting, giant, floating bubbles. Plus, we will make bubbles that we can hold!
Launch into learning as we construct a simple machine the catapult, to hurl pompoms all over the room.
Build your own circuit that lets you communicate using Morse Code. Send messages that your friends and family can try to decode.
Hang on tight as you, the meteorologist, explore extreme weather events. Create a model of a rain cloud, thunder in a cup, and make a tornado in a bottle.
Create fun, fizzing reactions to discover what affects reaction rates. How will these reactions launch your rocket?
Scream in delight as the chemical reactions create a “monster” that goes through a major matter change.
Why don’t oil and water mix? We will conduct experiments on density and polarity to find out, then we’ll use our knowledge to make lava lamp test tubes.
Polymers are magical substances that can absorb 300 times their weight, disappear before your eyes, and keep a baby happy. Conduct fun experiments to learn more about this very special substance!
Learn about the properties of light and about the colors of the rainbow. Then we will use special polymers to create our own tube of rainbow colors!
Calling all inventors! You will create a cell that will become part of a homemade battery. Then you’ll build a simple circuit to create your very own motorized invention.
Utilize the separation procedure of chromatography to reveal the true colors of color-coated candy, Kool-Aid, and magic markers.
You can never make enough of this stuff! We’ll cross-link our way through non-Newtonian fluids as we make both fluffy and chalkboard slime.
Seeing is believing! Use the magic of invisible ultraviolet light to turn slime different colors before our eyes.
How long can you hold your breath? Explore the amazing power of our lungs and how we get air into our bodies! Then build a lung model that actually breathes!
Test out your engineering skills and discover which shapes are the best for building structures. Then put your knowledge to the test to build the tallest, strongest tower of them all!
Experiment with water’s amazing properties – the strength of surface tension, cohesion, and the power of capillary action.