Pam Mills brings science to Keller Library's summer reading program
Thursday, June 30, 2022
Dexter Statesman/Josh Ayers
Former Dexter science teacher and current professor at Sountheast Missouri State University presented an oceanography and science program at Keller Library's Story hour.
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Mary Forman helps Pam Mills measure water for one of the demonstrations during the program.
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Isabel Ramsey helps Mills count pennies as she drops them in a glass of water. The goal was see how many pennies it would take overflow a glass of water filled to the brim.
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Mills pours colored water into a container of salt water to show how they separate due to the density of the salt water. Children's librarian Chris Hillis holds the microphone for Mills.
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The container of colored water and salt water at the conclusion of the experiment. A golf ball floats in the middle of the container on top of the salt water.
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Mills displayed three fossils from the university for the kids to examine. They are all from a Triceratops. From top the smallest of the three horns that were on a Triceratops, a vertebrae and a piece of the frill (the bony structure behind the Triceratops head).
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Some of the kids in attendance get to hold and examine the fossils with Mill's assistance.