Students will discover how science helps athletes perform in their sports. They will participate in challenges (balance, stability, reaction time) to understand physical and mental skills that can be helpful in sports and learn about the importance of good nutrition. To understand the science behind the development of different types of protective sports equipment, students will build models. In addition, they will explore the physics of several popular sports. Students will create profile cards of their own ultimate athlete or sports scientist.
Students will discover how science helps athletes perform in their sports. They will participate in challenges (balance, stability, reaction time) to understand physical and mental skills that can be helpful in sports and learn about the importance of good nutrition. To understand the science behind the development of different types of protective sports equipment, students will build models. In addition, they will explore the physics of several popular sports. Students will create profile cards of their own ultimate athlete or sports scientist.
Double Dutch for Fun Jumpers are passionate about teaching all ages to enter & exit ropes properly and fun tricks to promote overall physical fitness for all. Jumping rope is a great way to burn calories, tone muscles and improve your cardiovascular endurance.
Build and decorate your own keepsake box, using laser-cut cardboard pieces. Customize your own pieces online for cutting and building with the Fab Lab. For ages 13-19.
Double Dutch for Fun Jumpers are passionate about teaching all ages to enter & exit ropes properly and fun tricks to promote overall physical fitness for all. Jumping rope is a great way to burn calories, tone muscles and improve your cardiovascular endurance.
Are you thinking of starting your own business? Don't know how to begin?
Come to this free two-hour seminar by the DC Small Business Development Center. This workshop will give you an overview of the thought process that goes into the development of a business plan and a discussion of the reasons why.Please pre-register with DCSBDC to attend this program.
High Noon Book Club will meet Monday, January 9, 2017 at 12:00 pm in Room B to discuss Behind Closed Doors, a Novelby B.A. Paris.Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace.
One of twelve works chosen for the theme, American democracy, this now classic novel by award-winning author, Margaret Atwood describes an America turned upside down by bigotry and zealotry while facing nationwide infertility. Love, desire, jealousy and hate figure in the handmaid, Offred's recounting of her harrowing decline from free-spirited college student and happily married mother of one to veiled forced surrogate for various powerful men. Similar to George Orwell's 1984, this tale is one powerful read.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee stands on the shoulders of Giants. Women fought for political rights centuries before Clinton.Their struggles speak to the political and sexist variances that have occurred within the 20th and 21st centuries. The positive moments of progressive equality for women’s rights are simply that, moments. Demanding that these moments become permanent fixtures in the lives of all women is what Shirley Chisholm stressed.
Artist/educator, Karen Brown brings a project to inspire play and creativity as the library begins Maker Month. Mark your calendars for this fun-filled event and drop by the library each Friday during the month of July for more Maker programs.
Recommended for ages 7 and 14.
Become a maker. Build, experiment, design and more through hands on activities that will ignite the imagination. Visit the Children's Room for one or all of the themed projects:Week 1: Fantasy
July 8, 9 and 10, 1-2:30 p.m.Week 2: Motion
July 15, 16 and 17, 1-2:30 p.m.Week 3: Fun & Games
July 22, 23, and 24, 1-2:30 p.m.Week 4: Engineering and Electronics
July 29, 30 and 31, 1-2:30 p.m.
As part of the Gold For the Gold - Read! summer reading program the library will host Bananas, an interactive program produced in partnership with the Children's National Medical Center. The hilarious pig puppets explore healthy eating, exercise and getting regular checkups for children 3-6. Join the fun and don't forget to keep reading.
Jump in! Learn to enter and exit ropes and perform tricks while burning calories, toning muscles and improving cardiovascular endurance. The event will take place outdoors. Please wear comfortable and safe attire. A waiver (available at the Children's Desk on the second floor) is required for participation.
This summer, explore science in the seas-- oceanography. Use microscopes and engage in hands-on experiments while learning more about marine animals and sea water. In branch registration by a parent or guardian is open now. Only 16 students per level will be admitted on a first come first served basis.
Classes for the William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library: Levels I & II, July 11-14
Level I- 2-3 p.m., children entering grades 2 and 3
Level II- 3:30-4:30 p.m., children entering grades 4 through 6
Remember back in the day when you could go to the park in your neighborhood to watch movies on the Big Screen? Well! Big Screen Movie Night is here again, but this time it's at your neighborhood Library.
Check us out at Bellevue Library on Thursday nights in June:
Outside Theater
June 16, 23, and 30
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
