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Putting a spin on summer camp

What do you get when you gather several children together at the Kern County Museum and have them paste two pictures opposite each other on drinking straws, and then have them rub the straws furiously, back-and-forth in their hands? You have the children putting a "spin" on the museum's summer day camp, of course. The children who did the spinning during a one week summer day camp said the experience was "fun," and they learned something, too. "Because the brain processes faster than the eyes can keep up, the two pictures spinning together appear as though they are one image," said summer day camp teacher Stephanie Davis. The day camps which began on June 11 and conclude on Aug. 17 offer age-appropriate sessions featuring entertaining and educational adventures with science, history and geography. During the week of July 9-13, younger children were experiencing Kitchen Science, while the older campers were learning the ABCs of Science -- Astronomy, Biology and Chemistry. All of the sessions feature interactive activities which are so engaging they make the campers want to know, "why?" More
Posted: 7/23/07; 2:50:18 PM | Permalink(#)


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