ACS Kids Zone
ACS Kids Zones are free public events featuring facilitator-supported activities based on the theme for children and their families. ACS members, including local chemists, chemistry students, and volunteer chemists of the ACS Committee on Community Activities support interactive investigations, so children can learn with actual chemists.
ACS Fall 2023 Kids Zone
On Saturday, August 12th, ACS President Judith C. Giordan sponsored the free public event at San Francisco’s Children’s Creativity Museum. Participants enjoyed hands-on science activities, the opportunity to meet real chemists, and educational giveaways!
Download the activities:
- Cloudy with a Chance of Clear Color (PDF)
Add an acid-base indicator to milk of magnesia. Then add citric acid for dramatic color changes that cycle through a few times until the cloudiness disappears! - Make-and-Take Lotion (PDF)
It’s a mixture; it’s a suspension, it’s an emulsion; it’s lotion! Science has the solution to DIY lotion. - Connect with Slime (PDF)
Your body makes a viscous liquid like slime to get the germs out of your nose. Make a model of slime to take home! - Fruit Juice Sleuth (PDF)
Add drops of juice to a solution of starch and iodine to find out which beverage contains more vitamin C. - Secret Science of Self-Inflating Balloon (PDF)
Self-inflating balloons contain the same ingredients that make fizzy medicines fizz. Feel and hear this cool chemical reaction!
Past Event
ACS Spring 2023 Kids Zone
On Saturday, March 25, ACS President Judith C. Giordan hosted the free public event at Indianapolis’s Concord Neighborhood Center. Children participated in a myriad of activities, interacted with chemists, and left with tons of fun swag.
The following activities were demonstrated at this event:
- Bursting Boba
- Connect with String Slime
- I Spy Photosynthesis
- Plants vs. Algae
- Self-inflating Balloons
- Indicator Alligator
Contact the ACS Office of Science Outreach
outreach@acs.org
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