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Kids 9-11 Years - Workshop Option B

Activity

Hazards Mitigation
Mechanics 1: Build your own clip board working with a mechanical technician to lay out a hole pattern, use a small drill press and assemble your very own note and message board – SNAPPY!

Cuts, bumps, scrapes from dropping or slipping tools or sharp edges of parts

Wear safety glasses

Use clamps and keep your hands away from moving parts

 

Radiation: You will use different radiation detection instruments to find different types of sources and radioactive materials that are common. Suit-up, you will find hidden radiation sources – GET HOT!

 

Radiation (very small amounts – a fraction of what would be received from a medical x-ray)

 

Listen to your instructor

Leave everything where you found it.

 

Magnetics: Build your own electromagnet and use it in a “shocking” demonstration of “step up” power. Test your aim with a magnet powered accelerator. Make your own magnets and - PUSH! PULL!

 

Electricity

 

Listen to your instructor

 

Biology: Look closely at the world around you! Freeze molecules, plants, flowers and look at their real structure. Put on stereo glasses. Look at bugs and see them as they see each other - UGLY!

 

Cuts, bumps, scrapes from dropping or slipping tools

 

Wash your hands after experiments; don’t drink solutions; tell the instructor if you break a microscope slide and stay away from moving robot parts

Kids 9 to 11 years - Option A  or Option B or Option C    Kids 12 years & up - Option D or Option E or Option F

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Teresa Troxel  June 30, 2005