Let’s Get Colorful!
Interactive Stem Workshops for Library Patrons
In Person (suitable for outdoors) Classes: $200. with discounts for multiple bookings
Classes are 1 hour
Classes are ideal for up to 15 participants, (though libraries may accept more registrants to ensure a full class).
“She, (Denise), is passionate and knowledgeable about her subjects and exudes enthusiasm while maintaining a constant respect for her attendees. She encourages input from her audience. If a child answers a question incorrectly, she gently makes suggestions or offers additional information that helps guide the child to arrive at the correct response on their own. She addresses the children by name and seems to delight in hearing their ideas pertaining to the subject. She skillfully maintains control of her audience and keeps them interested and captive. She is kind and friendly, which puts her audience at ease allowing the participants to feel comfortable enough to volunteer their thoughts. Her programs are thorough, well planned, and interactive. The hands-on activities are fun, creative, and educational.”
Rainbows of Color
Rainbows of Color K-5 unassisted and preschoolers with adult helper
Is white light really white? What happens when colors slow down? We'll learn to observe colors in a whole new light as we experiment with white light.
We'll build a spinning color wheel, look through a prism and paint a rainbow using just three colors. We'll finish by blowing some extraordinary bubbles to catch the light to create an iridescent tint. Participants will receive a pair of light refracting glasses to take home.
Colorful Chemistry
Grab your lab coat and goggles as we create a palette of color using a ph indicator with acids and bases. We’ll also make a colorful explosion in a bowl and a density rainbow column to take home.
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Colorful Kaleidoscopes
Kaleidcopes grades k-5
We'll design, build and create our own kalediscope with colorful beads and color patterns. We'll also make a pair of 3d glasses using color strips.
Adventures in Magic
Have you ever wanted to become a magician? With opitical illusions and basic chemistry, you’ll learn to have a few tricks up your sleeve, such as the disappearing water trick, make paper change color, raisins dance, and more!
Adventures in Flight
Calling all aviators! We’ll, build and test out three different types of flying machines, inlcuding hoop gliders, rotocopters and balloon rockets.
Adventures in CSI
During this adventure, you’ll don lab coats and CSI badges as you attempt to solve the mystery of the missing cookie dough. You’ll be extracting DNA from a strawberry, collecting fingerprints, analyzing handwritten messages and using chromatography to compare inks. All this info will help us catch the thief!
Calling All Wizards
We begin our wizard training by designing our own magic wands, then we’ll use them to create a frothy, oozing and rising concoction from our cauldron. Next we’ll become mad scientists as we make a color changing potion inside a test tube.
Groovy Stem
Embrace your inner flower child as we make make groovy light up lava lamps a wobble ball and perform a magical swimming fish experiment.
Rainbows
Grades K-5
Rainbows have come to symbolize unity and diversity. We’ll observe the science behind these claims as the unified white light is made up of the diversity of colors. We’ll paint our own rainbows using red blue and yellow and observe the magic that happens when they come together.
Building Bridges
Grades 3-8th
Work together in teams to build the strongest bridge possible out of newspaper or other materials. Compete with other teams to determine which bridge can maintain the most weight.
Castles and Catapults
Grades K-5th
Build a catapult and storm the enemy’s castle with your teammates armed with colored puff ball ammo. Work as a team, to get more of your colors over the wall before the others can get theirs behind your walls.
Engineering Tails
Recommended Grades K-5
We’ll share excerpts from the book, “What Would You Do With a Tail Like This?” and learn of some extraordinary true tails in nature. Then we’ll set to work engineering our own tails, using a variety of up-cycled materials. We’ll learn how to make a pre-hensile tail, a detachable tail and tails that fold and expand.
Mythical Tales: Unicorns, Mermaids and Dragon Tails
Grades K-8
Which myths are true and which are pure fantasy? Draw your own conclusion at the end of this intriguing program where we’ll explore the science behind the myths. Participants will make a rainbow in a bowl, construct a flying dragon, create a flame inside a sealed container, and build their own mythical tails.
What if you had a Tail?
Nursery-grade 2
We’ll share excerpts from the book, ‘What if You Had an Animal Tail?” by Sandra Markle to gain inspiration to design our own tail and strut our stuff with a variety of appendages.
Ziplines
Grades 3-8
Get ready engineers to build our own zipline, fit for a small toy to have a thrill. We'll design, build and improve our zip line as we test the best angle and weight for the line.
Marble Ramps and RollerCoasters
Grades 3-8
Using cardstock, and paper towel tubes we will build a marble drop. We will learn how to get a marble to turn a corner and spin in a circle before it drops.
Mythical Creatures
Grades K-8
Listen to the some of the legends told of unicorns and dragons, then we’ll perform a few experiments to determine if any of these myths could hold true.
Ocean Creatures and Flying Features
Grades K-3
We’ll construct and experiment with our own hoop gliders as we learn the principles that keep sharks buoyant and planes aloft.
Rockets!
Grades K-8
Blast off as we learn how rockets launch, launch 2 types of rockets and build our own straw rockets
DIY Chemistry Lab
Grades K-8
What is yeast and how does it make our bread so fluffy?
We’ll make a homemade batch of sourdough starter and observe yeast breathing. We’ll also try a few alternatives to this chemical reaction as we trap the gases inside a balloon.
We’ll look at a number of ways to release and trap carbon dioxide gas and make our own homemade batch with the power of chemistry!