The kids put on a "blubber glove" which simulated what it felt like when arctic animals like walrus' dive into the cold water. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW staff)

By Nikita Ganovicheff

Summer Fun

Saskatchewan Science Centre brings science education to Meadow Lake

Jul 9, 2019 | 4:47 PM

The Meadow Lake Library brought in some science educators to get kids interested in learning during the summer.

Fifty kids from ages five to 16 were in the Jonas Samson School gymnasium on July 7 for Saskatchewan Science Centre’s Go Science! program.

Jenna McEwan and Sarah White were the presenters and are a part of Outreach, which is a branch of the Saskatchewan Science Centre. While the centre has an interactive science museum in Regina, Outreach brings science presentations and activities to libraries in distant parts of Saskatchewan.

“Our job is to bring things out to places that are far away and we like to do activities that are hands on and we basically go all around the province,” McEwan said.

Presentations and activities were prepared to teach kids about different schools of science, which started with learning about Earth’s oceans. The children learned about the effects of temperature on the ocean as well as the different depths where plants and animals can live.

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Sarah White shows the children which animals live at which depths of the ocean. (Nikita Ganovicheff/meadowlakeNOW)

“My favourite part about this science thing was learning about the ocean and learning about the animals living at the very deep trenches,” Scott said. “Because I didn’t know that there was these giant shrimp living in these trenches.”

The program had a portion on nature and the outdoors, which had a take home activity called bug catchers. The last part of the program was all about space, which White said is always popular.

“Our final activity that we always finish with is we have a rocket launch,” White said. “We tape our little marshmallow onto the bottle rocket and we try to send them to space.”

McEwan and White said it’s important for children to continue learning even while on their summer break.

“They took different parts and made it fun and easier to learn,” Sam said. “Originally I knew about the ocean animals but now I know about the ocean temperature and layers.”

Go Science! was brought in as a part of Meadow Lake Library’s summer programming. Tawn Marshall, the programming clerk for the library, said they have several programs and activities planned for the summer including a Family Literacy Day on July 30 and youth yoga with Heather Krissa.

Marshall said space is limited for most of the activities and parents would need to register their kids at the library. The library’s summer activities ends with a wrap-up party on August 22.

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