The document provides instructions for an activity called "Team Machine" where participants form a circle and pass a beanbag around as quickly as possible while saying each other's names. It encourages testing to decrease time and includes hints that participants can move around and stand or sit. It also provides instructions for a design challenge to create a park map within constraints and using materials provided. Finally, it describes a wind turbine building challenge using toothpicks, play dough, and straws.

1. Team Machine
Establish a pattern
1. Form a circle.
2. Say your name.
3. Toss the beanbag to someone across from you
(not next to you). Remember that person’s
name.
4. Keep going until each person has caught the
beanbag.
Keep the same order – but go even faster!

2. THINK
How can you decrease your time?
BUILD, TEST, and DO IT AGAIN!
1. Pass the beanbag around the circle again — as quickly as
possible!
2. Say the name of the person who will catch the beanbag each
time you pass it.
3. Try to “beat” your shortest recorded time
Hints:
You may move around. You may stand or sit.

3. WELCOME
Active STEM Programs
on a Shoestring Budget

4. • STEM Resource Clearinghouse (for activities
and related programming resources)
• Blogs (share success stories)
• Forums (discuss promising practices)
• Webinars/Conferences (professional
training)
• STAR_Net News (resources and
opportunities)
www.starnetlibraries.org
Activities and Resources

5. STAR_Net Community of Practice
• Over 2,400 members have joined the STAR_Net
Community of Practice
• Members include librarians, library support staff,
STEM professionals
• Community members contribute by posting
how-to blogs, sharing funding opportunities and
participating in webinars

6. FREE resources for public libraries!
Contact: Jackie Hooker at 2017Eclipse@SpaceScience.org
www.starnetlibraries.org/2017eclipse/

7. NASA@ My Library STEM Kits
Apply: February 2017
Applications will be
accepted at
https://apply.ala.org
Please register for the
STAR_Net Community of
Practice to receive the
official announcement

8. STEM Resource Clearinghouse

10. Be Creative…Be an Engineer!

11. Design a Park
• Pond
• Tennis and/or Basketball
Courts
• Dog Park
• Swimming Pool
• Stream and Footbridge
• Community Garden
• Picnic Area
• Playground
• Skate Park
• Baseball Diamond
• Basketball Court
• Water Playground
• Open Space
• Boat Rental Shop, Boat Slip,
and Pond
• Wetland
• Ice Cream Shop

12. Design a Park
THINK
• Place different park features on the
grid to create a map of your park!
• 10 or fewer park features OR keep your total under 250 points
• Everything must fit on the grid!
• Your park must include restrooms.
• Connect your park’s features with lighted trails/bike paths (yarn
and yellow beads)
Talk
Draw
Write
Explore

13. Costs
10 Pond -1 Wind Turbine
15 Ball Courts (such as for
basketball or tennis)
-30 Boat Rental Shop, Boat
Slip, and Pond
15 Dog Park -30 Wetland
20 Water Playground -85 Open Space
30 Swimming Pool -300 Ice Cream Shop
30 Stream and Footbridge
30 Trail/Bike Paths
50 Community Garden
75 Picnic Area
90 Restrooms and Drinking
Fountains
150 Playground
215 Skate Park
250 Baseball Diamond
200 Parking Lot
Savings

14. Levers at Play
How can the bear and otter fix their
predicament on the seesaw (teeter-totter)?
CC0 Public Domain via Pixabay

15. Credit: Lunar and Planetary Institute

16. THINK and BUILD
1. Pick the materials you think would be best for
building a seesaw.
2. Together, plan how you will use the materials to build
the seesaw.
BUILD and TEST
3. Follow your plan to create your model seesaw.
DO IT AGAIN!
Modify your design — but change only one thing at a
time!

17. Blades
Tower
Vertical Axis
Wind Turbine
Credit: Lynne Kirton [CC-BY-SA-2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)],
via Wikimedia Commons

18. Wind Turbine Tech Challenge
BUILD and TEST
1.Push the four toothpicks into Play-Doh
2.Put a small scrap of paper at the bottom
of the toothpicks
3. Stick four Post-it notes to one
end of the straw
4. Slide the straw over the toothpicks.
5. Use a second straw to gently blow across the blades.

19. Feedback

20. WELCOME
Active STEM Programs
on a Shoestring Budget
Try out the materials
on your table!

21. • STEM Resource Clearinghouse (for activities
and related programming resources)
• Blogs (share success stories)
• Forums (discuss promising practices)
• Webinars/Conferences (professional
training)
• STAR_Net News (resources and
opportunities)
www.starnetlibraries.org
Activities and Resources

22. STAR_Net Community of Practice
• Over 2,400 members have joined the STAR_Net
Community of Practice
• Members include librarians, library support staff,
STEM professionals
• Community members contribute by posting
how-to blogs, sharing funding opportunities and
participating in webinars

23. FREE resources for public libraries!
Contact: Jackie Hooker at 2017Eclipse@SpaceScience.org
www.starnetlibraries.org/2017eclipse/

24. NASA@ My Library STEM Kits
Apply: February 2017
Applications will be
accepted at
https://apply.ala.org
Please register for the
STAR_Net Community of
Practice to receive the
official announcement

25. STEM Resource Clearinghouse

26. Hands-on
Discovery Tables

27. Rotating STEM Displays

28. Image Sorting
• Sort the images on your
tables in a way that
makes sense to your
group
Activity guide and cards:
greatballsoffireexhibit.org

29. One solution – sort by size:
1.Lions
2.Space Shuttle
3.Asteroid Ida
4.Moon
5.Mars
6.Earth
7. Jupiter
8. Sun
9. Solar System
10.Galaxy
11.Cluster of
Galaxies

30. Another solution – sort by distance:
1.Eagle
2.Jet
3.Aurora
4.Hubble Space
Telescope
5.Moon
6.Sun
7. 4 Vesta
8. Saturn
9. Kuiper Belt
10. Orion Constellation
and Nebula
11. Andromeda Galaxy
12. Hubble Deep Field
View

31. Balloon Rockets
Trip to Mars game
Credits:
NASA/Bill IngallsCredit: NASA
Credits: NASA/Team
LavaHive

32. • Visit vendor
table #34
• Sign up for the
Community of
Practice
• Register for 2017
solar eclipse
resources
• Apply for a NASA@
My Library STEM Kit
in February 2017