Math Science Nucleus event: Heart

Math Science Nucleus organizes many science related programs in the libraries. Previous ones that we had attended were on Light and Dinosaur. The nature of the programs is that first the instructor reads a book or two explaining about the topic. Then there are various art and craft activities related to the topic.

This event started with a slide of internal body parts and kids had to match the names. After that the instructor read a very touching story about Rita Anselmo, "The damaged heart". All the stories that they read are available on their website under "Storybooks". A video was then played which showed what are the different parts of the heart and how the blood flows. It is very informational and also available on MS nucleus website.

Then the kids were shown the activities, one table had sthethescopes where kids could hear the lub-dub of the heart, the other table had papers which contained pieces of heart puzzle that the kids had to color and cut, yet another table had materials to make a heart book. There was a model of heart that the kids could explore, there was a heart mat where the kids could trace the flow of the blood in the heart.



Although the program was for 45 min., however it did provide us with wealth of information. And oh yes! we did read the story 2-3 times that night from the website! Both the kids loved the story and it triggered many more questions in their minds.