Impression 5 Newsletter | Summer 2019

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MAY / JUNE / JULY 2019

INSIDE: Music at the Museum, Summer L.A.B.S. Camps, SMASH: A Nuclear Adventure, and more!

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PLEASE RECYCLE!

Spring Cleaning?

FREE Member Admission Opportunities!

We’re collecting the following items inside the Think Tank now through May 31 only. Thank you for giving your used items a new life and purpose here!

In July, don’t miss out on FREE member admission to Saginaw’s Mid-Michigan Children’s Museum!

Visit John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids this May. Members receive reciprocal FREE admission!

Grand Rapids Children’s Museum welcomes your family for FREE member reciprocity during the month of June.

(Applies to two adults and up to four children.)

Help us stock our program recyclable collection!

Small electronics (i.e. radios, calculators, CD players, mixers, flashlights, VCRs, old phones, etc.)

Working or not is fine!

Old board games (i.e. Monopoly, Scrabble, etc.)

Baby food jars (cleaned) Bottle caps/lids Cardboard tubes (paper towel, toilet paper, and duct tape completely free of paper or tape) Paper tissue boxes (rectangular AND square) Cereal boxes (flattened)

Bring your membership card with you to receive reciprocity benefits!

TAKE-HOME SCIENCE:

Solar-Powered Coloring!

What is the sun’s daily path? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

But did you know that based on the sun’s path, our shadows grow and shrink during the day?

Materials: • Table or flat surface • Paper • Pencils/crayons/markers • Figures/toys/shapes

Instructions: 1. In the morning (around 8 a.m.), set up your table outside in a sunny location.

Pringles cans or tennis balls cans

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Shoe boxes Old figure toys (dinosaurs, army men, Barbie-type dolls, etc.

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Screw drivers and hammers Wooden frames (8x10 or larger)

Place paper on your table, and place your figures/toys on the paper so they cast shadows onto the paper.

Trace the shadows cast by the sun with your crayons or markers.

4. Color your shadows based on your imagination.

Lamp bases

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Small matchbox cars

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Repeat steps 1-4 at different times throughout the day and compare how the sizes of your traced shadows change!

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What’s happening?

Light travels in straight lines, and shadows are caused by something blocking light from going straight. If you notice the shadow made by your own body, you’ll find that it is the longest in the early morning after the sun rises and just before it sets at night because more of your body is blocking the light.

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Immersive Programs Summer L.A.B.S. Camps (Week-long Camps) A five-day exploration of immersive themebased activities and projects!

Register by mail, online, or over the phone at (517) 485-8116, ext. 132.

Spaces are filling quickly!

Summer Sprouts Play-based program for 2-4 year olds and their caregivers, these 45-minute sessions are designed to strengthen young scientist’s sensory and motor skills while stimulating their curiosity, creativity, and enthusiasm for learning.

May

Music at the Museum

MAY 4, 7 P.M. – 10 P.M. (ADULT 21+ TICKETED EVENT) The Harley Beatty Family presents a night of Music at the Museum benefitting the First Impression Room and young child programming. The evening’s entertainment will include four Michigan singer/ songwriters performing a variety of genres including folk, blues, rock, Americana, and pop.

Tickets available at https://bit.ly/2SvoNvg or purchase onsite the night of the event.

Generously sponsored by Clean Team USA, Rathbun Agency, and Michigan Millers Insurance Company.

Wednesdays, Thursdays, or Fridays at 9:15 a.m. Registration required.

Sensory Friendly Hours 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. – RSVP Online

Enjoy special hours for an experience with limited guests, sensory rooms, quiet spaces, and select exhibits altered to reduce stimuli.

Monthly on select Fridays

Think Tank Maker Camps Ingenuity-based camps for 11-14 year olds that focus on innovating, problem solving, and making amazing things with real tools.

Registration required.

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MAY 11 Make It! Think Tank Workshop: Metal Mods

MAY 12 Mother’s Day

Youth 9-14 will use electricity and saltwater to etch patterns into metal or use a hammer to stamp patterns into it.

MAY 17 Sensory Friendly Hours

10 a.m. – 12 p.m.

MAY 11 Adopt-a-River Community Clean-up

Free admission for all Moms!

5:30 – 7:30 p.m. – RSVP Online

Featured guest activity by Michigan History Center!

MAY 18-19 East Lansing Art Festival

See you at the Children’s Art Area!

9 a.m.

Join us for the 26th annual event and help keep our local rivers and adjacent spaces beautiful!

Following the clean-up, enjoy a free lunch and admission to an interactive environmental fair at your Science Center!

At the fair, you’ll have the chance to get up close and personal with the amazing honey bee, see Potter Park Zoo animals, experience the power of water movement, and get tips on how to be a citizen scientist for butterfly migration! Show your love for the environment by learning hands-on ways to understand and protect it!

MAY 21 Tadpole Storytime: Bugs & Crawlers

Pre-register to volunteer online or by emailing larson@impression5.org.

Saturdays 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Sundays 2 p.m.

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11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Join us for a Science Centerlibrary partnership program that integrates a pre-school storytime with science-themed hands-on activities! It’s a tad of reading, a dab of science, and a ton of fun!

MAY 27 CLOSED Memorial Day THROUGHOUT MAY Scientific Weekends: Chemistry Exploration

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June

25th Be A Tourist In Your Own Town JUNE 1, 10 A.M. – 5 P.M. Enjoy free admission all day with passport as we participate in this #lovelansing community-wide celebration of getting to know Greater Lansing even better! Get your $1 passport today onsite, at the Convention & Visitors Bureau, or at other participating locations!

JUNE 17-JUNE 21 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps

JUNE 26, 27, 28 Summer Sprouts: Jr. Engineer

• Potions & Eruptions (Ages 3-5) • Inside Me! (Ages 5-6) • Techno City (Ages 7-8) • Life Hacker! (Ages 9-11) • Slime Entrepreneur (Ages 11-14)

JUNE 28 Sensory Friendly Hours

JUNE 10-JUNE 14 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps

JUNE 19, 20, 21 Summer Sprouts: Nature Investigators

• Under the Sea (Ages 3-5) • Build & Destroy (Ages 5-6) • Secret Agent Scientist (Ages 7-8) • Science of Marvel (Ages 9-11) • Cardboard Circuits (Ages 11-14)

JUNE 24-JUNE 28 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps

JUNE 16 Father’s Day Free admission for all Dads!

• Construction Junction (Ages 3-5) • Art Adventure (Ages 5-6) • Video Game Designer (Ages 7-8) • Hogwarts Adventure (Ages 9-11) • Build a Robot (Ages 11-14)

5:30 – 7:30 p.m. RSVP Online

Featured guest activity by Lansing Art Gallery!

JUNE 29 Courtyard Cleanup 9 – 11 a.m.

Along with the warmer weather, we’re excited to activate our outdoor spaces for you and other families to enjoy. Will you help us give our courtyard and adjoining spaces some much-needed TLC? We’ll have light yard projects, as well as hands-on activities for the kiddos! Thank you for all the ways you choose to support your Science Center!

Please RSVP to Kate at gantzer-hayes@ impression5.org by June 27 if you and your family would like to participate.

July CLOSED Independence Day Wednesday, July 4 JULY 1-3, 5 Summer L.A.B.S. Single-Day Camps Ages 5-6, 7-8, & 9-11 7.1: 7.2: 7.3: 7.4: 7.5:

Geology Rocks!

Get Messy!

Cooking Science CLOSED Happy 4th!

Marvelous Machines

SAVE THE DATE! JULY 11 MEMBER SNEAK PEEK! SMASH: A Nuclear Adventure

JULY 8-JULY 12 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps • Amazing Art (Ages 3-5) • Argg! Pirate Science (Ages 5-6) • LEGO Robotics (Ages 7-8) • Chemistry Challenge (Ages 9-11) • Escape Artist (Ages 11-14)

JULY 10, 11, 12 Summer Sprouts: Ocean Exploration JULY 15-JULY 19 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps

JULY 22-JULY 26 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps

5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

• Pirate Adventure (Ages 3-5) • When I Grow Up! (Ages 5-6) • Video Game Designer (Ages 7-8) • Where is Carmen Sandiego?

(Ages 9-11) • Science Vlogging (Ages 11-14)

• On the Farm (Ages 3-5) • Grossology (Ages 5-6) • Movie Magic (Ages 7-8) • Best Commercial Ever! (Ages 9-11) • MAKE with Wood (Ages 11-14)

Be among the first to experience our new permanent exhibit, SMASH: A Nuclear Adventure, with fellow member families!

JULY 17, 18, 19 Summer Sprouts: Jr. Chemist

JULY 24, 25, 26 Summer Sprouts: Dynamic Dinosaurs

JULY 12

Grand Opening!

JULY 26 Sensory Friendly Hours

SMASH

: A NUCL E ADVENT A R URE!

Experience the wonder of nuclear science in this new interactive exhibit that explores atoms and their journeys of acceleration, collision, separation, and detection in simulated environments that illustrate the research happening at the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University! Built entirely here at your Science Center, this exhibit will also explore a variety of jobs and skillsets that make the research at FRIB possible.

5:30 – 7:30 p.m. RSVP Online

Featured guest activity by Lansing Art Gallery!

JULY 29 – AUGUST 2 Summer L.A.B.S. Week-Long Camps • Doc McStuffins Science (Ages 3-5) • Space Explorers (Ages 5-6) • LEGO Robotics (Ages 7-8) • Advanced Forensics (Ages 9-11) • TRASHformations (Ages 11-14)

JULY 31 & AUGUST 1, 2 Summer Sprouts: Storybook Science

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Hours of Operation Tuesday - Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday: 12 - 5 p.m. Monday: Closed Phone: (517) 485-8116 Website: impression5.org

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