2019 Summer Reading Program - Registration starts on June 26 ends July 3rd
You must Register at the library.
Summer Reading Program runs from June 26 - July 31. Open for all ages. All events for this program are free of charge. Join us as we learn more about outer space and NASA. READING TEAMS! Participants will join a team of readers facing our challenge. The challenge is to see which team can read the most books during the summer reading program. Reading teams will be announced at the first craft session on July 3. The winning team will be featured in a "Library Book of Stars" so every book read counts! There will be a party for all of our program participants at the end of the program, July 31. We are planning weekly and on-going activities that will include space-related crafts, art projects, experiments, programs, and more. |
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Interesting Resources: http://www.spaceweather.com/ http://www.astronomy.com/ https://in-the-sky.org/skymap.php https://stellarium-web.org/ https://www.nasa.gov/ ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS
Champions of libraries and outer spaceErin Teagan, Author of Luciana Vega Book Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR3Ugauy5PA#action=share
Dr. Michelle Thaller, Assistant Director of Communications, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKTCZbeq_S0#action=share Dr. Kjell Lindgren NASA Astronaut, National Aeronautics and Space Administration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziYAzVSsdcM#action=share Dr. Seth ShoStak, Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmCKOb1tDT8#action=share Dr. Lindsay Elkins-Tanton Planetary Scientist and Professor, Arizona State University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T53_e4BZ1k#action=share Arika Egan Graduate Student Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDh03vBYfH4#action=share |
Wednesday is
Drop-in Craft Sessions Day: Drop-in crafts are offered during regular library hours.
Summer Reading Program Events:
For more information, call the library at 942-5472 Did You Know?Scientists are fairly confident that Jupiter’s moon Europa has an underground ocean, even though they’ve never seen it.
Hidden beneath an icy crust, most of what researchers know about that ocean is based on the moon’s smooth, streaked surface. Europa lacks mountains or large craters, but it is crisscrossed with ridges and cracks, called chaos terrain, that scientists think is caused by the shifting of ice plates over a liquid ocean, analogous to Earth’s plate tectonics. By using the Hubble Space Telescope to spy on Europa’s surface, astronomers have discovered the presence of sodium chloride – better known as table salt, the same compound that makes Earth’s oceans so salty. This might indicate that Europa’s ocean is more like Earth’s or Enceladus’ oceans than previously thought, and bolsters some theories about hydrothermal activity on the Jupiter's moon. Learn More... http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/06/the-briny-depths-of-europa-brim-with-table-salt About Our Solar SystemThe Earth's diameter is 7,918 miles (12,742 km) so how big is the rest of the planets and our sun compared to the Earth? This video gives a visual representation. It also discusses the distance between the planets and the sun. Click the link to watch a visual of the size of our solar system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK5E_7hOi-k June's Night SkyView the link below to see what all there is going on in the night sky during the month of June.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmqCQpyBISI#action=share Realistic view of Solar System to scaleThis video gives us a visual idea of how the planets are in relationship to each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR3Igc3Rhfg#action=share |
