Spark a Reaction
2014 Collaborative Summer Library Program
Teen Manual

 	Call for Ideas by November 1, 2012

Science is the broad theme chosen for 2014.
“Spark a Reaction” is the teen slogan.

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, please send them. 
In addition, I am 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 to:

Patti Sinclair
306 Virginia Terrace
Madison, WI  53726
trishsinclair@sbcglobal.net

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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-				Cannons/
Fireworks; National Pyrotechnical Group: info on designing fireworks and 				    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