A Summer Full of Science
Popular summer science program for students in grades 2-6 returns for another year.
If you ask a kid, summer is about vacations, Popsicles and swimming. It’s certainly not about learning or science or engineering. But thanks to GlaxoSmithKline’s Science in the Summer program, June and July are a chance for children to discover and experiment, and actually love doing it. The free hands-on program for students entering second through sixth grades in the fall is sponsored by GSK, in cooperation with The Franklin Institute, and is held at local libraries. This summer’s theme, Simple Machines, will teach students about physics, using six kinds of simple machines: lever, inclined plane, screw, wheel, pulley and gear. Students will experiment with building simple machines that help make things easier, like lifting huge boulders…
