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Summer Reading Slogans
Children: "Fizz, Boom, Read!"
Teens: "Spark a Reaction!"
Adult: "Literary Elements"
Explore: Health in Space
Bones of Contention – children ages 8–13 make models representing bones on Earth and bones that
have been in space. They discover what happens to bones without proper exercise and nutrition!
Explore: Jupiter's Family Secrets
Weather Stations: Phase Change
Children observe the water cycle in action! Water vapor in a tumbler condenses on chilled aluminum
foil — producing the liquid form of water familiar to us as rain and dew. They discuss how Jupiter's lack
of a surface simplifies its water cycle and consider that ammonia and ammonia compounds play a role in
its more complicated atmosphere.
Dunking the Planets
In this 30-minute demonstration, children compare the relative sizes and masses of scale models of the
planets as represented by fruits and other foods. The children dunk the "planets" in water to highlight
the fact that even a large, massive planet — such as Saturn — can have low density. They discuss how a
planet’s density is related to whether it is mainly made up of rock or gas.
Explore! Ice Worlds!
All About Ice
The All About Ice suite of activities sets the stage for Explore! Ice Worlds! Ice in the Solar System and Ice
on Earth. Children investigate ice, learn about its properties, and explore how it can change states to a
liquid or a gas. Through hands-on experiences, they observe ice, find its melting and freezing point, and
learn about some of its unique properties, including that ice, the solid phase of water, is less dense than
the liquid!
States of Water: A Snow Mobile (Getting Started)
To introduce the properties and states of water, children ages 8 to 13 prepare the materials for a
mobile. As they undertake the activities in the module, the children discuss the questions posed by the
mobile and questions or ideas they may have about ice, water, and water vapor. At the close of the
module, they complete the mobile.
An Ice Magic Show
In this 20-minute activity, cool magician, I.C. Melton (the facilitator) demonstrates the amazing State
Change Trick for children ages 8 to 10. Based on what they have observed in I.C.'s performance, the
children brainstorm what it really takes to make a state change happen!
Around the Block: An Ice Tour
In Around the Block: An Ice Tour children ages 8 to 13 spend 20 minutes investigating the basic
properties of ice. Using common tools such as magnifying glasses and magnets, along with their own
senses of sight, touch, and smell, they examine a large block of ice and then discuss and record their
observations as a team.
The Melting Point!
In this 15-minute companion activity to That's a (N)ice Temperature!, teams of children ages 8 to 13
predict which ice cube will melt faster, one sprinkled with salt or one without salt. After making their
predictions, the children pour salt on one ice cube and leave the other untouched, then observe for 2
minutes to see if their predictions were correct. Children learn that salt — and other substances —
lowers the melting point of ice.
That's A N(ice) Temperature
In this 30-minute companion activity to The Melting Point, teams of children ages 8 to 13 experiment to
find the melting and freezing points of water and ice.
Amazing Expanding Ice
Children experiment with freezing water to observe another special property of ice — that it is less
dense as a solid (ice) than it is as a liquid (water). Amazing, Expanding Ice! is an "overnight" activity
requiring 20 minutes of preparation, overnight freezing of the experiment, and 10 minutes of follow up
discussion.
The Tip of the Iceberg
Children ages 8 to 13 observe an ice cube in water and -- literally -- draw conclusions about properties of
ice based on their observations!
Flubber Flows
Flubber Flows is a 30-minute activity in which teams of four to five children ages 8 to 13 experiment with
Flubber and investigate how a solid can flow! They predict and model the properties of glaciers, view
images of advancing glaciers, and create their own Flubber flow!
States of Water: A Snow Mobile (Wrapping Up)
After answering questions and recording their discoveries about water in its solid, liquid, and gas states
on their Snow Mobile pieces, the children assemble their mobiles!
Ice in the Solar System
Part Two of Explore! Ice Worlds — Ice in the Solar System investigates the who, what, where,
why, and how of exploring ice in the solar system. Children ages 8 to 13 examine different types of ices,
discover where these different ices occur in the solar system, how scientists determine what ice is
where, meet some of the scientists who are exploring these ice worlds, and explore why their work is so
important!
Ice and Seek: What is Ice?
In this two-part, 60-minute activity, children ages 8 to 13 begin explorations of ice on planets and moons
in our solar system by building an understanding that there are different types of ice. As teams, the
children examine three types of ice — dry ice, alcohol ice, and water ice. They identify the ices based on
clues and then match the type of ice to the planet or moon on which it occurs.
Reflections on Ice: How We Look for Ice
To build an understanding of how scientists study ice properties remotely, children ages 8 to 13, observe
ice through different wavelengths of light. In this 60 minutes of exploration, teams of children travel to
three ice stations and examine the ice with black lights, flashlights, and colored lenses to discover that
there is more to ice than meets the eye!
Explore: Comets
Dry Ice Comet
Dry ice and other household items make this demonstration an out-of-this-world experience! Point out
the different parts of comets (nucleus, coma, and tails) as you “cook up” a model comet. Children
discover the structure of comets and the interactions between comets and our Sun.
Discover Earth
Activity 3: Icebreaker Activities
Check out Ice-y Experiences, starting on pg. 12 of the activity procedure! Children get to know each
other through an icebreaker activity that introduces the importance of ice on Earth. Children ages 5 to 7
play “Walls of Ice,” where the facilitator reads personal, ice-related statements to two lines (“walls”) of
children and the participants run to the opposite line if the statement is true. Children ages 8 to 9 and 10
to 13 play “Ice Bingo” using cards that contain squares with different types of ice experiences — like
getting their tongues stuck on ice! — interspersed with ice facts and information about ice on Earth.
Children have 5 minutes to find as many participants as they can who have had experiences described
on the card.
Activity 6: Weather Stations
Check out “Rain,” starting on pg. 14 of the PDF! Children investigate the journey that water took before
it arrived at their location as rain or snow. Water vapor in a tumbler condenses on chilled aluminum foil
— producing the liquid form of water familiar to us as rain and dew. They discuss how the water cycle is
all around us — from our lakes, streams, oceans, farms, animals, and ourselves — to the air, to clouds,
and to the precipitation we can measure with weather station instruments.
Activity 10: Earth: Artistically Balanced
Teens, ages 14 to 18, engage their communities in science through art in Earth: Artistically Balanced. The
teens first interact with a climate scientist to unravel, on a very basic level, the complexities of Earth’s
climate system, and then they create a three-dimensional artistic representation of Earth’s climate. The
art may be created on a large scale and displayed at the library or made on a smaller scale to take home.