Getting Excited About Science will be making a repeat appearance at Will County Fair Children’s Stage this Saturday August 27 at 4:00 PM. I love doing outdoor public shows and will have Elephant Toothpaste, liquid Nitrogen, Human Gyroscope, shooting parachute man, Diet Coke explosion, electro magnet fun, audience participation, music and prizes. If you are in Northern Illinois, come on by and say hi.
This was a busy summer with outdoor science shows at camps. Here are a few photos from an Illinois camp with 500 campers sitting on 1 1/2 basketball courts watching Getting Excited About Science. Getting Excited About Science is often performed outside during the summer months. This is a very large group, however the show can be tailored for smaller groups as well.
Here are a few images of the equipment used in this show. We will be performing 40 shows for the Chicago Public Libraries in the summer 2011. At the end of the show, we have between 10 – 16 children helping make music. Lots of fun demonstrations, a few surprises and audience participation create “Good Vibrations” for teaching many sound concepts.
Getting Excited About Science performed on July 3, 2011 for the National Education Association families during their convention in Chicago. Vice President Joe Biden was there on the same day.
http://www.consef.org/home/11-02-08/CONSEF_Entertainment-_Steve_Belliveau.aspx
Getting Excited About Science will also be at Wayne State Univerity in March. Over all, we will be at dozen science fairs this season.
Today, I performed hands on Science with students from Providence St. Mel From the moment I stepped in to the building and saw the students going from class to class and reading the history of the school….I knew it was special. Go directly to their website and learn more.
Skokie Public Library will be hosting my 3-6 grade teacher workshop on January 20 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Register at Skokie Public Library in advance.
Getting Excited About Science is an approved vendor for the Chicago Public Schools. We are able to accept approved/authorized Purchase Orders from the schools. In the past week and a half we have been at 3 different Chicago schools for science programs for 4 school assemblies and one math – science night program.
Over the years we have brought science to dozens Chicago Public Schools.
The Denver International Airport just built the “greenest” large parking lot in the world according to the Dever Post. There are solar pannels and windmills. Here is the link.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16676095
Many other parking lots are being built with porous material and other strategies that allows rain water to reach the ground and not “run off”. The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL has a great new parking lot built this way.