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playing in the dirt
As I was walking through the scene at the park today, I overheard a mom telling her kids, “You could go play in the dirt over there.” I made an internal note of that. When and where else do you hear a mom telling her kids to go play in the dirt? In this case,…
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2019 Summer Parks Tour
We’re looking forward another summer of science outside in Ogden City Parks! Here’s our schedule for 2019, 11:30a-1:00p at each of the following: June 10-14: Lorin Farr Park (769 Canyon Road) June 17-21: Monroe Park (850 E 30th Street) June 24-28: Lester Park (663 E 24th Street) July 1-3: Mt. Ogden Park (3144 Taylor Avenue)…
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Holiday Demo
Today we’re off, since it’s Independence Day and people are out at parades and barbecues, and since Ogden School District’s lunch program also takes the day off for the holiday. But since we miss all of you, and since we’ve been scattered in our posting lately, here’s a bonus 4th of July edition activity you…
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Day 1
The first day of Science in the Parks is celebratory. I think for many of us it signifies a start to our summer season, and of course it’s a public launch of the program. It’s almost always sunny and even as we feel a little less organized than we will next week (we forgot tape…
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spinning and balancing
This is one of my favorite photos, taken a few years ago during Science in the Parks, even though there’s nothing especially fancy about what’s captured here. It’s just a bunch of spinning gyroscopes, an outreached hand to grab one of them. Maybe we take it for granted that these spinning objects seem to defy…
Science in the Parks
serving playful science with lunch in Ogden
Science in the Parks 