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Summer Reading STEAM Idea: DIY Kaleidoscope

1/31/2021

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Looking for fun ways to use the iREAD summer reading theme, Reading Colors Your World?  Try DIY kaleidoscopes.  Kaleidoscope kits use a mixture of cheap and easy-to-find items such as cardboard tubes and more expensive materials such as mylar or flexible mirrors.  This STEAM project could be an event in a park, in your library or given as a take and make. 
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Here are links to different ways to make kaleidoscopes:
Science Works: How to Build a Kaleidoscope
The Ashland Science Works museum has great DYI instructions for a kaleidoscope.  This project uses a toilet paper roll and aluminum foil (or shiny cardstock).  They put translucent beads into a plastic bag and rubber band it to the roll.  This website also explores the science of the kaleidoscope.

Science for Kids: How to Make a Kaleidoscope
This method uses a toilet paper roll and mylar sheets.  The author had children draw on a round piece of paper and uses a straw to attach it to the roll.  She paints her roll to beautify it.  There is a video of her making the kaleidoscope.

DIY Kaleidoscope Craft for Kids
This method uses a paper towel roll and aluminum foil.  The author cuts clear plastic circles from a salad greens lid.  She glues the clear plastic circle to the open end of the paper towel roll.  She inserts translucent beads into the tube and puts the second clear plastic circle into the roll.  Then, she inserts aluminum foil covered cardboard.  To make it look pretty, she attaches a piece of colorful paper onto the paper towel roll with tape.

Pairing STEAM with Stories: 46 Hands-On Activities for Children by Elizabeth McChesney (Ordered from the State Library of Oregon) Kaleidoscopes: page 12-13
This book has directions for a kaleidoscope that only uses mylar glued to cardboard.  The author draws a picture on white paper and tapes it to the kaleidoscope.  This version is simpler than the others because it does not place the mylar in a tube.
Here are my tips after trying several ways to make a kaleidoscope:
  1. Cut open a Nespresso sleeve on the long side.  You will have four sections with three folds.  Cut off one of the sections and the ends.  The remaining three sides have two folds and fit perfectly into a Costco paper towel roll.  The size of a Nespresso box is 11" x 1 1/2" x 1 1/2".
  2. Aluminum foil vs mylar:  I tried dollar-store aluminum foil sheets and more expensive heavy-duty foil.  Neither one worked very well.  It was difficult to find any reflections.  You need to glue down the foil and try not to get any bumps or wrinkles.  Mylar sheets by Vinyl Frog worked really well as a reflective source.  They were self-adhesive and thicker.  It was harder for these sheets to become wrinkly.  Plastic mirrors would give the best reflection.  I did not experiment with mirrors.
  3. Beads vs paper: For me, drawing designs on paper worked way better than translucent beads as source of changing colors.  I was really surprised by how well the lines on paper reflected via the mylar.
Check out this Bibliocommons list for recommended books on kaleidoscopes, light, color and sight for children and families.
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UPDATE:  ITEMS CLAIMED.  Email me if you would like me to send you leftover supplies.  I have five mylar survival blankets.  Each one measures 87”x 59” and a small batch of translucent beads.  See picture to left.

​Have you made a kaleidoscope at your library?  Please let us know how it went.
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Tara Morissette
Library Assistant
Oregon City Public Library
CSD Communications/Web Editor

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CSD Board Meeting: January 25 @ 2:00 pm

1/21/2021

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Join us for the Oregon Library Association, Children's Services Division (CSD) virtual winter 2021 board meeting.  Here is the link to the Zoom meeting.  You must be an OLA member to access it.  We start at 2:00 pm PST and would love to have you join in the conversation.

Here is our rough draft agenda:
Spring Workshop/Training ideas
Brainstorming Spring fundraiser
Lampman check-in
ORCA committee members needed from CSD membership
CSD Communications/Web Editor updates  
other business

Hope to see you there!

​The CSD board

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Join the ORCA Committee

1/18/2021

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The Oregon Reader’s Choice Award (ORCA) was founded in 2010.  The award is intended to be a fun and exciting way for Oregon youth in grades 3-12 to become enthusiastic and discriminating readers.  During the course of the school year, Oregon students choose their favorite book in a real-life democratic process. Books must be nominated for inclusion on the ORCA ballot.  In order to be considered, the book needs to have a copyright date of three years prior to when the ballots are announced. Oregon students, teachers, and librarians are all able to nominate books.  

The nominations are reviewed by a committee of librarians and educators.  The committee creates the final ballots based upon a number of criteria, including literary quality, creativity, reading enjoyment, and reading level.

The role of the ORCA committee is to read titles and contribute titles to the division lists of potential nominees. The bulk of committee work is done now -- January - April. This year, the committee is considering books with a 2019 publication date. Committee members commit to a two-year term with the option of a second term.   There are openings for CSD, OYAN, and OASL members at the 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 reading levels.

Interested?  Please contact Lori Lieberman, ORCA Chair for 2020-2022
orca@olaweb.org

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National Day of Racial Healing

1/13/2021

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National Day of Racial Healing is on January 19, 2021.  Check out this link to a WebJunction article that includes 9 ways your library and community can recognize the event.  The ALA has put out a Library Action Kit for ideas and activities.  Here is a booklist from the Center for the Study of Multicultural Literature of their best books of 2020.  This blog post by Youth Services Shout Out has a wonderful list about race, justice, kids and libraries.  ​Here is the link to the Heal Our Communities website.

From ALA:
Purpose
  1. Find ways to reinforce and honor our common humanity and create space to celebrate the distinct differences that make our communities vibrant.
  2. Acknowledge that there are still deep racial divisions in America that must be overcome and healed, and
  3. Commit to engaging people from all racial, ethnic, religious and identity groups in genuine efforts to increase understanding, communication, caring and respect for one another.

Join the Community Conversation
​Join us on ALA's social media channels on January 19 for a conversation around the National Day of Racial Healing and add to the conversation using #LibrariesRespond and #NDORH. As a community, we'd like to talk about:
  • Has your institution launched any initiatives to address racial inequities in libraries? 
  • What actions have you taken to explore your unconscious bias?
If you're looking for ways to get started, consider taking an Implicit Association Test Library workers, what workplace practices have you encountered or engaged in that reinforce inequity?
If you're looking for ways to get started, consider exploring the Race Matters: Organizational Self-Assessment.

Hashtags
  • #TRHT
  • #NDORH
  • #HowWeHeal
  • #racialhealing
  • #librariesrespond
  • #librariestransform
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Tara Morissette
​OLA, CSD Communications/Web Editor
Library Assistant, Oregon City Public Library

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Small and Rural Libraries: Training Opportunity

1/12/2021

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January 13, 2;00 pm - 3:00 pm, Shared Learning: Providing Trauma-Informed Services in Small and Rural Libraries
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How can staff in small and rural libraries adopt a trauma-informed approach without access to the resources that a larger library or a library in an urban community may have? That's just what several Oregon librarians set out to learn by participating in a recent Infopeople course, "Providing Trauma-Informed Services in Small and Rural Libraries." Come listen to their take-aways and hopefully leave with some of your own!

Go to this link for more information and click on TOPIC TALKS tab.
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