Lakeshore Learning Materials
Lakeshore Learning is your one-stop shop for STEM materials! Visit our booth for fun crafts and demonstrations!
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Super Booth
Fun hands-on activities for all ages.
Waves of Migrations, & Rhythms of Cycles
Our booth will be an interactive installation. A "work" area in the first tent will teach the public about how fossil fuels are speeding up the natural cycle of global warming. Public will create a paper model molecule of CO2 from a orange tissue paper with a dinosaur print. This will be brought into the second tent, where they add it to our atmosphere model. The second tent will have canvas added to the corners to create a circular chamber (rather than square). The walls will be covered with our studies of natural migrations & cycles.
The World of Design
Design & Architectural projects involving Game Development, Media Design, Product Design, Interior Design, and Architecture
Mathematics and Art
Our booth will have mathematical activities geared toward creating works of art. Among the activities we will have are sketching activities that leverage projective geometry. In these activities participants will use central projections in order to create linear perspective drawings and anamorphic projections (think 3d sidewalk art, or the skull in Holbein's The Ambassadors). Members of CRMSE (professors and graduate students) will facilitate the activities. Additionally, we may include other activities that have/will be developed in the InforMath Research Collaborative at Balboa Park.
Engineer your own Origami Boats!
Students will build origami boats of varying levels of complexity and attempt to make the boats float in a tub of water. We will provide additional materials (e.g. Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, etc.) to challenge kids to propel their boats from one end of the tub to the other. Participants can also choose to race against one another.
Franklin Elementary STEAM Magnet
Our booth will include interactive STEAM projects designed by our students. Also, we will hand outs and freebies to promote enrollment in our STEAM program.
