School's off so come and explore S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) at the library. No registration required Drop-in to this informal program. Stay a few minutes or several hours. (Expanded to allow younger children with Duplo, Shapes, & Train Sets)
Create circuits with Snap Circuits; build simple machines with Legos; construct with Keva blocks, K'nex, or Straw Builders; defy gravity with your balancing skills; engineer a roller coaster; explore magnets; solve a math or science puzzler and more.
Stations:
- Thomas the Tank Engine Train Set Up (big bin of track & trains) – kids laid out tracks and played (on the stage)
on the floor:
- Toobers and Zots
- Foam Shapes
- Straws & Connectors / Strawbees
- Duplo
on tables:
- Deciphering codes (left over from Crazy 8’s Spy Program)
- Visual Brainstorms Cards
- Blokus Game
- Checkers Game
- Keva Blocks
- Magnetic Blocks
- Lego
- K’nex
- Snap Circuits
- Unit Cubes
2.20.17
LOOKING FOR MORE STEM FUN? – Sign up for this program on March 2nd:
Celebrate Maker and Women's History Month -- We'll hear the story of Margaret E. Knight, the nineteenth century inventor who figured out how to make a machine that could fold a flat-bottomed paper bag, then we’ll make wild and wonderful paper bag creations.
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