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Hi, Everyone,

It's that time again! This year’s summer reading program is barely over and now we need your ideas for the 2014 Teen Summer Reading Manual!

The theme for 2014 is Science and the teen slogan is “Spark a Reaction.” (Next year’s theme is Underground and the teen slogan is “Beneath the Surface” but that manual is finished already.) We need your suggestions by November 1, 2012.

Below you’ll find science ideas generated at the annual CSLP meeting last April for the teen manual. As you’ll see, the librarians went even broader in their brainstorming session.  If you’ve done a successful program on any of these, please let us know.  Or, if you have other great ideas for Spark a Reaction, we’d love to have them.

In addition, we are especially interested in your ideas for:

Setting the Scene

o   Some basic ideas on how to do a display,

o   Decorating the teen area for this theme

o   Making a teen space inviting

o   What else to display besides books

Send your contributions by November 1, 2012 to:

Patti Sinclair

306 Virginia Terrace

Madison, WI  53726

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Experimental:

 Science of psychology/

Human chemistry:  love stories

Anti Drug use programs; e.g. Science of Frying Your Brain

Activism:        

grassroots movements,

flash mob,

environmental activism

Environmental, recycling, reusable, going green

Fast Food Nation, Sold, Trashland (video), Sol, Pig Lagoon,

Industrial Farming: exposé of world conditions, social activism   

Science and Music:   

Science-based music: bit speak, auto tune, dub step

Early electronic music

Science:                     

Science STEM Ideas

Science Experiments.  Youth manual will probably do a grossology

Program, but teen manual could too  

Gross-out Science

Watch stuff decompose

Vortex cannon.  http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Vortex-                   

Fireworks; National Pyrotechnical Group: info on designing fireworks and   

Cannons/displays   

Myth busters, science mysteries, science detective

Forensic Science, CSI programs

Discoveries

“Going Viral” or “It’s epidemic” idea: disease, zombies, smallpox; Zombie  

5K, Zombie Walk, Zombicize (anti zumba?)

Computers/Technology:

Teach teens how to develop, build and launch a website

Inventions,

 Building things—rockets, Rube Goldberg machines, rockets, towers, etc.   

 Robotics

scratch.mit.edu –; How to launch a website

Scratch, a programming language for everyone. Create interactive stories, games, music and art - and share them online.

Other:

Science Fiction/ Dystopian worlds                 

Game/Gaming Night:  board games, Blue Moon, Cataan, virus spreading board game

Domino Dash competition (with books, too)

Reaction to disaster:  survival programs, first aid contest

Revolution and politics and dystopian future (i.e. Hunger Games)

Programs to provoke reactions: zines, Would You Rather?

Radioactive—nonfiction book about the Curies

Some Resources

Outstanding Science Trade Books. http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/

Nebula Awards. Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy

PBS. Design Squad. pbskids.org/designsquad

Make Magazine. http://makezine.com/.  Check this out for ideas.

Books/Literature

Bradbury, Ray. Farhenheit 451

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species

Durrell, Gerald. My Family and Other Animals.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World.

Price., Catherine. 101 Places Not to See before You  Die

Silverstein, Ken. The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and

His Homemade Nuclear Reactor

Thanks for any suggestions you can send. I know you’ll come up with some great ideas!

Best,

Sharon Rawlins, MLS

Youth Services Consultant

NJ State Library

185 West State St.

P.O. Box 520

Trenton, NJ 08625-0520

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609-278-2640 ext. 116 - phone

609-278-2650 - fax