Teens Chapter Outline
YNK: You Never Know @ Your Library
Chapter 1 CSI
- Tour of police department
- Workshop on crime scene investigation techniques: fingerprinting, plaster casts of footprints, etc.
- Information speech by coroner, tour of coroner's lab
Chapter 2 Victorian Mystery
- Live Clue game
- Book discussions
- Sherlock Holmes lookalike contest
- Sherlock trivia
Chapter 3 Spies and Codes
- Navajo code talkers
- Puzzles
- Workshop to develop codes
- Scavenger hunt that involves breaking codes
- Spying techniques?
Chapter 4 Maps and Lost Treasures
- Geo-caching, letter boxing (http://www.letterboxing.org/)
- Orienteering
- Sunken treasures
- Passive contest: bulletin board with unmarked maps, kids have to identify countries, etc.
- Pin the capital on the map (can be used in addition to another program)
- Online treasure hunt?
- Display idea: kid's treasures: feature coin collections, stamp collections, etc.
Chapter 5 History's Mysteries
- Pyramids (Design a crane to left large blocks? Build them out of sugar cubes?)
- Atlantis
- Stonehenge
- Mayan ruins
- Cave writing
Chapter 6 Paranormal
- Feng shui
- Séance
- UFOs
- ESP - have kids do the test with the cards with the squiggly lines, stars, etc.
- Astrology - have kids design their own horoscope
- Book suggestion: Who do you think you are? Twelve methods for analyzing the true you by Tucker Shaw
Chapter 7 Graphic Novels
- Comics workshop
- Decorating idea: Dick Tracy-type graphics
- Book suggestion: Forensic Files of Batman
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