Category: staff time
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Scavenger Hunt: Indigenous Inventions
Scavenger Hunt: Indigenous Inventions In this self-directed scavenger hunt, participants locate hidden signs (clues) that feature a few inventions by various Indigenous people groups in North and South America. As each piece is found, participants place a matching sticker on the answer sheet, a map. Supplies Directions Assets scavenger hunt clues (hide these throughout your…
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Scavenger Hunt: In Living Color
Scavenger Hunt: In Living Color See human skin color as just another one of nature’s amazing ways of creating conditions for survival! Full Program Description In this scavenger hunt, kids encounter different ways that animals use color to survive, including humans. Framing skin color as an adaptation that we can look at just like all…
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Explore + Discover Together: Beads
Explore + Discover Together: Beads Add an easy DIY scratch-off map to any family program that uses beads. Participants will gain a little exposure to a wide variety of world cultures, marvel at human ingenuity and creativity, and feel connected as they join a long tradition of human creativity. Full Program Description Did you know…
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Craft: Fireworks Dance Wand for Lunar New Year
Craft: Fireworks Dance Wand for Lunar New Year Create a simple dance wand – then head to the dance floor and get your groove on! Happy Lunar New Year everyone! Supplies Assets instructions | pdf | copy & edit in Canva
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Explore + Discover Together: Celebrate with Candles
Explore + Discover Together: Celebrate with Candles Participants discover many ways that people around the world use light in various holiday celebrations, then create a decorative candle craft. Full Program Description Explore holidays from various cultures that use candles as part of the celebrations. Then create a festive and unique set of candles. “Tall, I…
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Scavenger Hunt: Lunar New Year
Scavenger Hunt: Lunar New Year Around the World In this self-directed scavenger hunt, participants locate hidden signs that feature children celebrating Lunar New Year around the world. As each piece is found, participants identify the child’s face and place a matching sticker on the answer sheet, a world map. Supplies Directions Assets scavenger hunt (this…
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Family Engineering Rubberband Cars
Family Engineering: Rubberband Cars Participants use the engineering design process to create rubberband-powered cars. Then, they learn about little-known Black inventors who helped make our roads and vehicles safer and are invited to imagine and create an invention to help improve car or road safety! Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to…
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Family Engineering Earthquake Challenge
Family Engineering: Earthquake Challenge In this hands-on program, participants experiment to create structures that can withstand earthquake-mimicking shaking. Full Program Description Brainstorm, design, build, and test structures to solve problems and help make the world a better place – just like real engineers! How do architects make buildings that can withstand earthquakes? The Instrumental Seismic…
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Moonwalking in the Milky Way
Moonwalking in the Milky Way In this multi-station STEAM program, participants explore the wonders of space. Along the way, participants gain a teeny bit of exposure to some Indigenous traditional knowledge about the stars and sky, hopefully acting as a counternarrative to the idea that Western-based scientists and astronomers are solely responsible for our understanding…
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Creation Station: Something Beautiful
Creation Station: Something Beautiful Participants learn Full Program Description Craft and create with us! We’ll provide an idea and supplies then you create your own masterpiece. “I wanted something beautiful that you could sit down and look at. And then, the paintings change you.” Alma Thomas In this session, we’ll explore the colorful art of expressionist…
