Mad Science of Chicago: The Dirt on Garbage
Become a junior environmental engineer by investigating the way garbage affects the environment and learn what we all can do to make it better! Kids will examine different materials and learn how garbage decomposes. Participants will learn how a landfill works (and doesn’t work) in this fast-paced, fun program just for Green Readers.
Appropriate for Audience: Family program for all ages
Length of Program: 60 minutes
June
26
11:00 am Thomas Hughes Children’s Library
2:00 pm Roosevelt
July
7
11:00 am Manning
11:00 am Thurgood Marshall
2:00 pm McKinley Park
2:00 pm Wrightwood-Ashburn
6:00 pm Canaryville
6:00 pm Scottsdale
8
11:00 am Lincoln Park
11:00 am Austin
2:00 pm Douglass
3:00 pm Near North
6:00 pm Lincoln Belmont
6:00 pm West Chicago Avenue
9
11:00 am Bezazian
2:00 pm Edgewater
6:00 pm Mayfair
10
11:00 am Roden
2:00 pm Oriole Park
6:00 pm West Addison
12
11:00 am Galewood-Mont Clare
2:00 pm North Pulaski
14
11:00 am Jefferson Park
11:00 am King
2:00 pm Independence
2:00 pm Chinatown
6:00 pm Edgebrook
6:00 pm Blackstone
15
11:00 am Sulzer Regional
11:00 am Hegewisch
2:00 pm Budlong Woods
2:00 pm Jeffery Manor
6:00 pm Northtown
6:00 pm South Chicago
16
11:00 am Humboldt Park
2:00 pm Bucktown-Wicker Park
6:00 pm Logan Square
17
11:00 am Richard J. Daley
2:00 pm Back of the Yards
6:00 pm Brighton Park
21
11:00 am Chicago Bee
11:00 am Clearing
2:00 pm Hall
2:00 pm West Lawn
6:00 pm Chicago Lawn
6:00 pm Marshall Square
22
11:00 am Portage-Cragin
11:00 am Merlo
2:00 pm West Belmont
2:00 pm Uptown
6:00 pm Austin-Irving
6:00 pm North Austin
23
11:00 am Walker
2:00 pm Beverly
6:00 pm Mount Greenwood
24
11:00 am Woodson Regional
2:00 pm Brainerd
6:00 pm Avalon
28
11:00 am Eckhart Park
2:00 pm Rogers Park
2:00 pm Midwest
6:00 pm Albany Park
29
11:00 am Sherman Park
11:00 am Kelly
2:00 pm Gage Park
2:00 pm West Englewood
6:00 pm Vodak-East Side
6:00 pm South Shore
30
11:00 am Pullman
2:00 pm Altgeld
2:00 pm Legler
6:00 pm West Pullman
31
11:00 am Coleman
2:00 pm Whitney M. Young, Jr.
6:00 pm Tuley Park
August
2
11:00 am Lozano
11:00 am Garfield Ridge
2:00 pm Toman
2:00 pm Archer Heights
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