Tails & Tales--Wildlife Education Summer Series
Join us this summer for exciting and informational wildlife education activities and materials that are made possible from a wildlife grant provided by The Community’s Foundation.
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Eyes of the Wild Rescue and Wallaby Tales Events
Join us every Wednesday June 9th – 14th at 7 pm to meet and learn about 5 new animals each week. This program is approximately 45 minutes long and geared toward children 4 and up. Click here to register. Tail & Tales Trivia Sheets
Learn fun and interesting new facts about animals all summer long by playing Tails & Tales trivia! Print out a trivia sheet each week and try to answer the questions using our new collection of eBooks. Answers will be posted every Friday. Trivia sheets are also available at local libraries. Week One Trivia Sheet- use the book The Most Endangered Animals in the World Week Two Trivia Sheet- use the book Animal Athletics Week Three Trivia Sheet- use the book It Glows! Week Four Trivia Sheet- use the book It Transforms! Week Five Trivia Sheet- use the book Penguins are Awesome Week Six Trivia Sheet- use the book Narwhals are Awesome Week Seven Trivia Sheet- use the book Killer Whales Are Awesome Week Eight Trivia Sheet- use the book Seals are Awesome Week Nine Trivia Sheet- use the book Animal Facts or Fibs Week Ten Trivia Sheet- use the book Strangest Animals in the World |
Are You Smarter than a Mammalogist Trivia
This fun-filled, interactive game challenges your mammal knowledge. What can we learn by exploring how other mammals are born and raised? With a focus on early childhood, we uncover fascinating facts, amazing adaptations, and parenting peculiarities. There are over 6,000 mammal species, ranging in shape, size, and habitat. Learn about the diverse ways babies develop (in a womb, pouch, or egg), survive (are they “nest,” “cache,” “follow,” or “carry” mammals?), and how fast or slow the young grow up (newborn blue whales gain 8 pounds per hour!). Come ready to learn, and leave with an appreciation for the diversity in animal adaptations. Dates: Monday, July 19th at 11:00 or Wednesday, July 21st at 7:00. Click here to register. Wildlife Education at StoryWalk
The books This is How I Grow and If My Mom Were a Platypus will be featured at the Rose Tree Park StoryWalk this summer. Dates TBA. Nature Notebook
Pick up a Nature Notebook from your local library to complete some fun nature and wildlife activities in your own backyard. 
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Join us for Summer Quest 2021! This year’s Summer Quest theme is Tails and Tales! Libraries across Delaware County will be offering fun programs and activities related to animal tales and education, so check our library events calendar as summer gets closer. Beginning on June 1, all Delco Libraries will offer a Tails and Tales on-line reading challenge. Pre-registration will begin May 17th. This year we will be using Beanstack to help you track your progress and earn badges. Beanstack is easy to use and available online and as an app.
What You Can Do
► Register as a family, individual, group, or class
► Track your reading
► Complete reading challenges
► Earn badges, incentives, and prizes
► Write book reviews
► If registered as a family, track the whole family's progress from one account
How to Sign Up
► Programs are available for pre-schoolers, kids, teens, and adults
► Registration begins May 17, 2021.
► Download the Beanstack Tracker app
► For instructions on using Beanstack, click here.
► For instructions on using the Beanstack app, click here.
What You Can Do
► Register as a family, individual, group, or class
► Track your reading
► Complete reading challenges
► Earn badges, incentives, and prizes
► Write book reviews
► If registered as a family, track the whole family's progress from one account
How to Sign Up
► Programs are available for pre-schoolers, kids, teens, and adults
► Registration begins May 17, 2021.
► Download the Beanstack Tracker app
► For instructions on using Beanstack, click here.
► For instructions on using the Beanstack app, click here.
Books on Blankets
Outdoor Story Times w/ Mr. Jason at Sleighton Park
Mr. Jason will be outside for safe & socially distant story times! Registration is mandatory so we can keep the numbers low. Families must provide their own blankets to sit on and will maintain a 6-ft distance from others. Masks are required for ages 2+.
Mr. Jason will read a couple books and engage the kids in a couple songs, then offer a brown bag with crayons & a scavenger hunt list for families to enjoy after story time to do at the parks or elsewhere on their own!
15 spots are available each story time (i.e. 15 families, NOT individuals).
Sleighton Park is located at: 277-299 Forge Rd, Media, PA 19063
Click on the date(s) you'd like to register for!
Mr. Jason will read a couple books and engage the kids in a couple songs, then offer a brown bag with crayons & a scavenger hunt list for families to enjoy after story time to do at the parks or elsewhere on their own!
15 spots are available each story time (i.e. 15 families, NOT individuals).
Sleighton Park is located at: 277-299 Forge Rd, Media, PA 19063
Click on the date(s) you'd like to register for!
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Mondays @ 10am or 11am
Monday, May 24th @ 10am Monday, May 24th @ 11am Monday, June 7th @ 10am Monday, June 7th @ 11am |
Tuesdays at 10am or 11am
Tuesday, May 18th @ 10am Tuesday, May 18th @ 11am Tuesday, June 1st @ 10am Tuesday, June 1st @ 11am |
Saturday Books on Blankets
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GSK Science in the Summer
Virtual from home for EVERYONE!
The GSK Science in the Summer™ Be an Engineer program is being offered virtually in Delaware County this summer. Through online videos and at-home experiments, children take on the roles of different engineers to solve real-world problems. Children then join virtual research team meetings with Franklin Institute scientists and educators to share their results. Be an Engineer is designed for children ages 7-13, and we invite your whole family to explore together at home! |
Families in Delaware County may enter an online lottery at http://scienceinthesummer.fi.edu/phila from May 3 - May 21, 2021, to receive a free kit of science materials from a local library. Kits will include materials for the Environmental and Electrical Engineer activities. Additional online content is available for continued exploration with the Structural and Biomedical Engineer activities. Please note, if not selected, all activity guides, materials lists, and videos will be shared online, so you can still assemble your own materials and have fun being engineers at home!
Important Dates: May 3, 12:00 pm: Lottery for science kits opens. May 21, 5:00 pm: Lottery for science kits closes. May 31 – June 4: Families notified about outcome of lottery. June 14 – July 2: Selected families pick up kits at their local library. If you are not selected, all program resources are available online, so you can still assemble your own kit and have fun being an engineer at home! June 14 – July 11: Families do at-home Be an Engineer activities using the activity guides, videos, and materials! July 12 – August 6: Participate in one or more live virtual team meetings with Franklin Institute scientists and educators. Visit each engineer’s page for dates and times of team meetings and to sign up! Visit www.scienceinthesummer.com for more information. |
Great news! Our annual Journey Across Delco (JAD) begins on June 1st! Each year our 28 spectacular libraries come together to promote learning by highlighting a fun activity and fact related to the Summer Quest theme. This year is no different, as our libraries will each be featuring an animal to promote this year’s Summer Quest theme of Tails and Tales. There are three ways to complete the program for this year.
To complete the JAD program, first download the game sheet here and instructions here or pick up a copy at any local library. Fill out your information on the bottom of the sheet and begin your journey by visiting libraries, completing badges in Beanstack, or visiting StoryWalk at Rose Tree Park – or a combination of all three (see below for a description of each)! Once you’ve completed your game sheet and figure out the mystery saying, return it to any local library to be entered into our Journey Across Delco raffle.
Ways to Play:
1. Visiting Libraries: With your game sheet in hand, visit our libraries where you will find a JAD poster highlighting the library’s animal with two fun facts and an activity. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet. Can’t visit all 28 libraries in person, then try below.
2. Inside Tails & Tales Reading Challenge: With your game sheet in hand, sign up to participate in our Beanstack Tales & Tails reading challenge at http://www.delcolibraries.org/Reading-Challenge. As part of the challenge you can complete activity badges, one for each library animal (as well as log books, complete reviews and win prizes). As you complete badges, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet (hint: the badge name will include the library as well as the badge description).
3. Visiting Storywalk: With your game sheet in hand, visit the StoryWalk in Rose Tree Park. Read the story. At each post complete the small activity cards sponsored by each of our libraries. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet.
The Journey Across Delco game sheets will be accepted at local libraries until August 15th. Winners of the raffle will be contacted by e-mail and prizes will be sent to their local libraries for pick-up.
To complete the JAD program, first download the game sheet here and instructions here or pick up a copy at any local library. Fill out your information on the bottom of the sheet and begin your journey by visiting libraries, completing badges in Beanstack, or visiting StoryWalk at Rose Tree Park – or a combination of all three (see below for a description of each)! Once you’ve completed your game sheet and figure out the mystery saying, return it to any local library to be entered into our Journey Across Delco raffle.
Ways to Play:
1. Visiting Libraries: With your game sheet in hand, visit our libraries where you will find a JAD poster highlighting the library’s animal with two fun facts and an activity. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet. Can’t visit all 28 libraries in person, then try below.
2. Inside Tails & Tales Reading Challenge: With your game sheet in hand, sign up to participate in our Beanstack Tales & Tails reading challenge at http://www.delcolibraries.org/Reading-Challenge. As part of the challenge you can complete activity badges, one for each library animal (as well as log books, complete reviews and win prizes). As you complete badges, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet (hint: the badge name will include the library as well as the badge description).
3. Visiting Storywalk: With your game sheet in hand, visit the StoryWalk in Rose Tree Park. Read the story. At each post complete the small activity cards sponsored by each of our libraries. On the back of your game sheet, write the library’s full name on the number line that corresponds to the animal picture on the front of your game sheet.
The Journey Across Delco game sheets will be accepted at local libraries until August 15th. Winners of the raffle will be contacted by e-mail and prizes will be sent to their local libraries for pick-up.
Rube Goldberg Kits
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Mr. Jason has put together kits of pegboards and a box of various supplies in order for you & your family to create your own Rube Goldberg machines at home. Only the following supplies have to be returned to us: pegboards (2), connecting nut & bolt, plastic bin, roll of masking tape (if there's any left), machine screws (15), metal hooks (10), and a mini screwdriver. Feel free to use any supplies at home and make a video of your machine in action! Email it to Mr. Jason (micsd@delcolibraries.org) to be featured here on our website!
Kits can be checked out for 3 weeks. You can reserve a kit (like a book) through our catalog. Search for "Rube Goldberg Kit." Kits can only be checked out and returned at the Middletown Free Library. Included in the box is a sheet with helpful links to examples, lesson plans, challenges, etc.
Kits can be checked out for 3 weeks. You can reserve a kit (like a book) through our catalog. Search for "Rube Goldberg Kit." Kits can only be checked out and returned at the Middletown Free Library. Included in the box is a sheet with helpful links to examples, lesson plans, challenges, etc.
The Delaware County Conservation District’s 2021 Poster Contest is now open to all public, private and homeschooled students in grades K—12 who reside or attend a school within Delaware County! The theme is “Healthy Forests= Healthy Communities.”
Please call the district at 610-892-9484 with any questions. More information can be found on the district’s website at www.delcocd.org Good luck to all participants! |
Please follow these rules for your poster to be qualified:
Rules: Theme “Healthy Forests = Healthy Communities” MUST be on your poster. Poster must be flat – no 3-D objects Poster must be created by an individual student. One entry per student. Poster must be the original artwork of the student. Hand-drawn or digital posters will be accepted. Any media may be used, including paint, crayon, colored pencil, charcoal, stickers, paper or other materials. Posters will be judged in the following grade categories: K-1, 2-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12. Prizes will be awarded to First through Fourth place winners in each category. To make things as safe as practical the contest will be conducted electronically this year due to COVID-19. Please e-mail a photo of your poster in a JPEG format to Michelle Wheeler at FerriM@co.delaware.pa.us by May 21, 2021. Please include the following information in the e-mail with your poster: Student’s Name Address Phone Number Age and Grade of Student School Name |
Mr. Jason's & fellow Delco Librarians' Digital Story Times (while COVID-19 restricts our services):
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Mr. Jason's Origami Lessons & other Arts & Crafts Tutorials
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We offer a wide selection of materials and programs for children of all ages!
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