Your Ideas Will Take Off with these Terms & Phrases for Summer Library Programs

Compiled by Aimee Adams, Medina County (OH) District Library, with input from Marlene Bell

What do planets like to read? Comet books! You’ve probably heard that the 2019 Summer Reading theme is “space.” Sometimes it’s helpful to have a list of terms to help you brainstorm new ideas for library events. Behold! The following is a list of over 250 terms or phrases you can associate with CSLP’s “A Universe of Stories.”

2001: A Space Odyssey A-Z List of NASA Websites for Educators (.gov/audience/foreducators/Alpha_index.html) Aeronautics Alan Shepard (He was the first American in space) Albert Einstein Alien Aliens (Think Extraterrestrial, or go a different route with nonnative, immigrants, or foreigners) Alternate universe (Ex. The Golden Compass) Andromeda galaxy Animals in Space Anthropic Principle vs. The Multiverse Apollo (The Greek god of the Sun; Rick Riordan series Trials of Apollo; NASA’s Project Apollo) Apollo 13 Aquarius (The Water-Bearer constellation) Aquila (The Eagle constellation) Aries (The Ram constellation) Armageddon Asteroids (Small rocky bodies orbiting the sun; also a 1979 arcade game developed by Atari) Asteroid Belt Astrology Astronaut Astronaut Farmer Astronomy Atmosphere (The atmosphere in here is weird; also weather) Auriga (The Charioteer constellation) Aurora Borealis (aka Northern Lights) Becoming a Star Betelgeuse (it’s a star, but it’s pronounced Beetle-Juice, like the 1988 Tim Burton film) Big Bang (The Big Bang theory of the metric expansion of space) Big Bang Theory (Comedy TV series—Bazinga!) Black Holes (The region of spacetime where nothing can escape; also informally a place where people or things disappear without a trace) Blast Off! Building space technology Buzz Aldrin (2nd man on the moon) Buzz Lightyear (To infinity, and beyond!) Cancer (The Crab constellation; also cancer the disease) Canis Major (The Great Dog constellation; also puppers and doggos) Capricorn (the Sea-Goat constellation; also goat yoga!)

Carl Sagan Cassiopeia (The Queen constellation) Celestial Chaos Theory Close Encounters of the Third Kind Collaborative Spaces (Libraries are being rebranded across the country as collaborative spaces) Comets Constellations Contact Cosmology Cosmos Creative Spaces Cultural Spaces Cycles of the Moon Cyngus (the Swan constellation, also Black Swan the film, or swan story times) Dark Matter Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd album) Dennis Tito (first orbital space tourist) Designing Spaces (or redesign a space) Dinosaurs (Theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs) Doctor Who (“All of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will, where do you want to start?”) Dreams (Alternate space/planes) Dune E.T. the Extra-terrestrial Eclipse Elon Musk (Lead Designer of SpaceX) Elysium Ender’s Game Environment Equinox Escape From Planet Earth Report Event Horizon Exoplanets (a planet outside the Sun's solar system) Extraterrestrials (aka aliens) The Fifth Element Final Frontier (Part of the opening line to Star Trek) Firefighter gear (created for space) First Man (2018 Film with Ryan Gosling about Neil Armstrong) Fitness in space Flying Saucers (aka UFOs) Freeze dried foods (created for space) Galaxy Quest Galileo Galilei Gattaca Geimini (The Twins constellation) Global Organizations (International organizations; ex. UNICEF, UNESCO, United Nations, World Wildlife Fund, World Health Organization) Gravity (force and 2013 film with Sandra Bullock) Guardians of the Galaxy Guion Stewart Bluford Jr., (NASA astronaut, the first African American in space) Healing Spaces (think meditation) Hidden Figures Historical Astronomy (aka Archeoastronomy; Astronomy is the oldest natural science) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Hollywood Walk of Fame Stars Home Hubble telescope Hydrogen Independence Day International Space Station Interstellar Interstellar Travel Iron Giant Japanese concept of space (wa, ba, tokoro, ma) Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Jetsons (TV show and film) John Glenn Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne Katherine Johnson (Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights.) Laika (The first living creature to orbit the Earth, did not live nearly as long as Soviet officials led the world to believe. The animal, launched on a one-way trip on board Sputnik 2 in November 1957, was said to have died painlessly in orbit about a week after blast- off.) Launch-time (pun on lunch time) Leo (The Lion constellation) Libra (The scales constellation, also balance; justice; law) Lift-Off Light Light years Lightsaber (Star Wars) Living Spaces Love the Earth Lunar Landing Lyra (The Harp constellation, also real harps) Mae Carol Jemison (first African American woman in space; 1992) Magic School Bus Magnetism Makerspaces Markiplier (YouTube) Mars Martians (Including The Martian book and film) Matter (You’re living, you occupy space, and you have mass. Do you know what that means? You Matter!) Mercury Meteors Microwaves Military Space Milky Way (including the candy bar) Miss Universe Mission Moon Rocks (Making moon rocks aka. Crystals or Rock Candy as a craft) Multiverse Mysteries of the universe Mythology (in relation to the constellations) NASA NASA Spin-off Technologies Natural Space Nature Nebula (Also a character in Guardians of the Galaxy) Needing Space (Focus on yourself) Negative Spaces (in graphic design) Neil Armstrong Neil de Grasse Tyson Neptune New Horizons (looking to the future) Observatories Oceans (Effects of the sun and gravity on oceans) Office Space Open space Opportunity rover Opportunity Spaces Optics Orbit Organize your space Origin of the universe Orion (The Hunter constellation) Outdoor spaces Ozone Parallel Universes (Think The Upside Down in Stranger Things) Pegasus (The Flying Horse constellation, also Hercules the Disney film) Perseus (The Hero constellation) Physics Pisces (The Fish constellation) Planets Plan-It (Pun- How do you organize a solar system party? You Planet!) Pluto (RIP Pluto) Polaris (The star, not the mall) Pollution (Recycling; help the planet) Pyramids (Theory that the pyramids were built to track the stars) Quantum Theory Quasar Quilting Stars (the actual craft of quilting) Relativity Renovate your space Rigel (Rigel is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the seventh brightest star in the night sky.) Rockets Rocket Boys renamed October Sky Rocket Science (It’s not rocket science (but it really is!)) Roman Empire (Named many of the constellations) Sacred Space Safe Spaces (LGBTQIA rights) Sagittarius (The Archer constellation; also Centaur) Sally Ride Sally Ride Institute (sallyridescience.ucsd.edu) Satellites (Also, ditch cable and satellite tv, streaming, etc.) Saturn Scientists and Astronomers Scorpius (The scorpion constellation) Serenity Sharing stories from around the world/country (sharing experiences) Shoot for the Moon (Also, Cow Jumping over the Moon) Shooting Stars Sir Isaac Newton Sirius (Star, but also Sirius Black from Harry Potter) Small Space Solar Power and the future Solar System Bodies Space Cowboys Space Force Space Garbage Space Junk Space Lander Space Missions Space Needle Space Opera Space Race Space Shuttles Space Station Space Travel Spaceballs Spaceship Space-Time Continuum SpaceX Spatial Awareness Spectrograph/Spectrometer Sputnik Starfish Star Lord (Chris Pratt’s character in Guardians of the Galaxy) Star Trek Star Wars Starbucks (yummm!) Stargate S-G1 Starry Night (Van Gogh painting) Stars Stars-in-your-eyes Steven Hawking Storage Spaces Supernovas (Xenon – Supernova girl song) Take Me to Your Leader (Take me to your Reader!) H.G. Wells Tales of Space and Time Taurus (The Bull constellation; also running with the bulls in Spain) Telescopes The Moons The Sun The Tides The Universe Tiny homes—Take up less space Trading Spaces Transitional Spaces Twilight Zone UFOs Universal ingredients in cooking Uranus Ursa Major (The Great Bear constellation) Vacuum (also vacuuming) Valentina Tereshkova (First woman in space) Venus Venus Flytrap Virgo (Constellation) Virtual spaces Wall-E Warp Drive Weather in Space Women in Space Yuri Gagarin Zero-gravity Zodiac