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POTENTIAL PROGRAM: STEM:Got Guts?
NEED FOR THE PROGRAM:
Cecil County Public Library provides lifelong educational
opportunities and resources to
encourage individual and community success. With our mission in
mind, we strive to provide
quality programming that corresponds and enhances the
educational content of Cecil CountyPublic Schools. STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education is an
important part of the current curriculum and therefore we are
dedicated to encourage our
younger patrons to get excited about the various disciplines
within STEM. By attending the Got
Guts? program, participants will gain a full understanding of
how the digestive system works in
their own bodies through a hands-on simulation of the digestive
system, interactive video
presentations, and diagrams.
GOAL:
Students will learn the parts and function of the digestive
system.
Students will learn the vocabulary: saliva, enzyme, nutrients,
chyme, bile, stomach, esophagus,
small intestine, and large intestine.
Students will be able to describe the path of food through the
digestive system through the use
of a simulation experiment using food and household objects to
take digestion from start to
finish in the human body.
Students will be able to label a life size model of the
digestive system.
Program supports MD Common Core Curriculum-Biology
Goal 1: Skills and Processes The student will demonstrate ways
of thinking and acting inherent
in the practice of science. The student will use the language
and instruments of science to
collect, organize, interpret, calculate, and communicate
information.
Goal 3: Concepts Of Biology
The student will demonstrate the ability to use scientific
skills and processes and majorbiological concepts to explain the
uniqueness and interdependence of living organisms, their
interactions with the environment, and the continuation of life
on earth.
POTENTIAL COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
Cecil County Public Schools
Homeschool Parents
STEPS NECESSARY FOR SETTING UP THE EVENT:
Complete Program Planner and receive supervisors approval
Gather materials needed for experiments/simulationsPrepare Power
Point for vocabulary and learning discussion points
Create and distribute promotional fliers
Advertise program on website, in schools, Link, and branch
bulletin boards
EVALUATION OF PROGRAM:
Participant evaluation form
*Program was implemented on Wednesday, November 14, 2012.
Program was successful and attendance was to
capacity.
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Date: 1 November 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Cindy Huntley
Rising Sun Branch Library Associate, Childrens Services
[email protected]
Discover Science: Got Guts?
Ever wonder how your body gets rid of all those cheeseburgers?
Discover the mysteries of the
human digestion system through a hands-on simulation of
digestion from beginning to end.
Things could get messy, so old clothes or a smock is a must.
This program is geared toward
children in grades 3-5. Rising Sun Branch Library, 111 Colonial
Way, Rising Sun. This program is
free and open to the public. Registration is required, please
call 410-658-4025 or register online
athttp://www.cecil.ebranch.info.
ABOUT THE LIBRARY
The Cecil County Public Library operates seven branches located
throughout Cecil County, MD.
The library serves over 50,000 registered borrowers. The mission
of the Cecil County Public
Library is to provide access to educational and cultural
resources for all and to promote
individual and community success.
*I promote school age programs through the schools by
distributing fliers at each of my
elementary schools a month before the program. I also advertise
the program through our
website and print brochure as well as library fliers. I would
advertise on Facebook a month
before the program to kick-off registration and again a few days
prior to the program as a
reminder.
PRESS RELEASE
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Fax: 410-996-5604 http://www.cecil.ebranch.info
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