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Category Archives: Group Visits
Story Time Theater: More Hugo!
Today, Eastbrook Elementary 2nd graders visited the Curve and put their spin on our Hugo Story Time Theater activity. With Mixcraft and a microphone, students brought illustration sequences from The Invention of Hugo Cabret to life using descriptive sentences, original sound … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Books, Group Visits, Podcast
Tagged audio, books, Hugo Cabret, Mixcraft, snowball microphones, sound effects, story time 2.0, theater
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Story Time Theater: Hugo
This week, Nativity Catholic students visited the Learning Curve and brainstormed creative ways to re-tell the story behind the pictures in the first chapter of The Invention of Hugo Cabret by recording descriptive narrative sentences … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, Hugo Cabret, Mixcraft, snowball microphone, sound effects, story time 2.0
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Heritage Builders Homeschool
Heritage Builders Homeschool visited the Learning Curve to research, report, and program Legos. Click the play button below to hear their reports!
Story Time Theater: Hugo Cabret
Today, Fox Hill Elementary students visited the Learning Curve and read the first chapter of The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick, which tells a story using both words and pictures. But what if we didn’t have the pictures? … Continue reading
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Tagged audio, Hugo Cabret, Mixcraft, radio, record, snowball microphone, sound effects, story time, story time 2.0, theater
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Junior Builders
At the Curve, Junior Builders get to use their imagination and build their own structures and creations from Legos, Duplos, gears, and more! This Boys and Girls Club enjoyed reading the story Iggy Peck, Architect, and then worked together as … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Books, Group Visits
Tagged architect, Duplos, gears, group visit, junior builders, legos, story time
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Gambold Preparatory Magnet High School
Students from Gambold Preparatory Magnet High School visit Central Library to learn about podcasting software and checkout books. Click the play button below to hear student comments!
Posted in Group Visits
Tagged books, High School, Mixcraft, Podcast, School Visit, Teen
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Learning Curve Tour for Hangzhou Sister City Ambassadors
This week, the Indianapolis Public Library welcomed ambassadors from our Sister City, Hangzhou, China. After a welcome celebration in Central’s atrium, we gave our visitors a tour of the Learning Curve. We demonstrated some of our digital activities as we … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Exhibits, Group Visits, Outside the Curve, Partnership
Tagged activities, China, Hangzhou, Sister City, tour
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KIB – Youth Tree Team Projects
Keep Indianapolis Beautiful Youth Tree Team visits the Learning Curve to work on their power point presentations. Good work team, and thanks for keeping Indianapolis beautiful!
Precious Angels Hugo Podcast
Today, the Precious Angels group visited the Curve and read the first chapter of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret. After listening, they recorded a podcast of some highlights and thoughts inspired by the book:
If you like … Continue reading
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Tagged books, group visits, Hugo Cabret, Podcast, read-aloud, summer reading program
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