Junior Ranger Pop up Play Days 2020 Passport
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National Park Service Manhattan Project U.S. Department of the Interior Hanford Unit Manhattan Project NHP 2020 Virtual Pop Up Play days Name: __________________________________________________________ Welcome to your 2020 Virtual Pop Up Play Days Passport! Richland Parks and Recreation, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, and Richland Public Library are hosting a series of free virtual programs for kids ages 5-13 through the summer. Due to Covid-19 we will not be hosting this year’s Pop Up Play Days in person. Instead, we are offering virtual ranger videos, indoor and outdoor activities, and the Junior Ranger Passport. Kids who complete all 6 activities from the Junior Ranger Passport Book by December 31, 2020 will receive a unique Junior Ranger patch or pin. Visit www.ci.richland.wa.us/popupplaydays for more information on how to get your Junior Ranger patch or pins. Beginning Wednesday, June 24, and every other Wednesday for 12 weeks, a new virtual ranger program and indoor and outdoor activities will be introduced online. All indoor and outdoor activities are optional and not a requirement for earning a Junior Ranger patch or badge. For more information, visit www.ci.richland.wa.us/popupplaydays or call 509-942-7529. While participating in any virtual recreation activities, all participants are encouraged to follow CDC health, safety and social distancing guidelines. cdc.gov/COVID19 . Thank you for doing your part to keep our community safe. With your help, we can enjoy our parks while preserving them for future generations when we #RecreateResponsibly! The City of Richland is providing information and links to independent resources for on-line recreation. The mere sharing of independent recreation links on the City of Richland website does not constitute an endorsement by the City of Richland of such content or programs. Please note that we do not endorse or receive funds to advertise any of the third-party sites or services listed or referenced on this passport book. Date Passport Activity Indoor Activity Outdoor Activity Corresponding City of (Required) (Optional) (Optional) Richland Park (Optional) June 24th Find Your Resources Build a Resource Robot Geocaching Claybell Park 425 Broadmoor Street Bateman Island 1600 Columbia Park Trail Badger Mountain Community Park 350 Keene Road July 8th Match the Engineer Spaghetti-Marshmallow Build a Beaver Leslie Groves Park AND Engineering Challenge Dam 40 Park Street Beaver OR Engineer? July 22nd Design an Alphabet Build an Alphabet House Alphabet Houses Craighill Park House Scavenger Hunt 200 Craighill Avenue August 5th Plant a Victory Garden Seedling Starters Identifying Native McMurray Park Plants 1780 Pike Avenue August 19th Dress Your Pet Pet Designer Pet Yoga Badger Mountain AND Community Park Pet Parades Maze 350 Keene Road September Promotional Poster Design Your Own Postcard Sidewalk Art The REACH Museum 2nd AND 1943 Columbia Park Trail Playwriting 1 Schedule of Events Vocabulary Architect: a person who designs buildings. Community: a group of people that work or live together. Dam: a wall or barrier that blocks water or makes water flow in a different direction. Engineer: a person who designs machines, cars, airplanes, rockets, buildings, dams, and bridges. Hydroelectricity: electricity that is created by the movement of water. Irrigation: a supply of water for plants. Lodge: a place where an animal lives and sleeps. Manhattan Project: during World War II the U.S. government created a top-secret program called the Manhattan Project to build the world’s first atomic bombs. Learn more about the Manhattan Project at: www.nps.gov/ mapr/learn/historyculture Public Works: built by the government for everyone in a community to use. Parks, schools, roads, and dams are all public works. Victory Garden: a garden planted by people during wartime. Victory gardens produced food for soldiers at war and for people at home. Vocabulary 2 Community Resources As the person in charge of the Manhattan Project, General Leslie Groves needed to find a place where he could produce plutonium for the world’s first atomic bombs. He asked Lieutenant Franklin T. Matthias, an engineer, to search the United States for a location to produce plutonium. When Lieutenant Matthias visited Hanford, he knew he had found the perfect location for the Manhattan Project. Hanford met all the requirements on Lieutenant Matthias’ checklist. LIEUTENANT MATTHIAS’ CHECKLIST: A LARGE AREA OF LAND. The Hanford area is 586 square miles. NO LARGE CITIES NEARBY. Richland, Hanford, and White Bluffs were small towns before World War II. NO MAJOR HIGHWAYS CLOSE BY. Highway SSH 11A was temporarily closed during WWII and is now called Highway 240. A LARGE SOURCE OF WATER. The Columbia River flows by the site. ACCESS TO LARGE AMOUNTS OF ELECTRICITY. The Hanford site could get electricity from the Grand Coulee Dam and Bonneville Dam. 3 Community Resources Activity: Find Your Resources Lieutenant Matthias selected Hanford as the site for the Manhattan Project because of Hanford’s resources. Today we use many of the same resources in our community. Do you know where the resources you use come from? Let’s find out! Draw a symbol from the RESOURCES box next to the matching resource on the MAP. RESOURCES Water Education Food Healthcare Energy Exercise/Entertainment MAP Community Resources 4 Engineering Our Community Engineers are important members of our community. They study how and why things work. Engineers design and build solutions to big and small problems. They also design our public works. The Manhattan Project needed to produce plutonium for atomic bombs. This had never been done before. Engineers design the buildings to produce plutonium like the B Reactor. The B Reactor was the world’s first production nuclear reactor, which was a big achievement for engineers. Activity: Match the Engineer Engineers specialize in the type of problems they solve. Match each type of engineer to the type of projects they design. ENGINEERS PROJECTS Design devices, tools, and equipment that use Computer electricity. Examples: navigation systems, electric Engineer motors, power lines. Design computers. Examples: computers, computer Chemical hardware, computer software. Engineer Design infrastructure and buildings. Examples: Civil bridges, dams, tunnels. Engineer Design devices, machines, and equipment that use Electrical nuclear energy. Examples: nuclear weapons, nuclear Engineer submarine, nuclear power plant. Design machines. Examples: refrigerators, trains, cars. Mechanical Engineer Design equipment for producing chemicals. Examples: Nuclear Medicine, plastic, fertilizer. Engineer 5 Engineering Our Community Activity: Beaver OR Engineer? Beavers are natures engineers! Let’s learn more about beavers and engineering. Read the sentences below. Fill in the blank with either BEAVERS or ENGINEERS. _______________ are people who design and build dams, buildings, machines, and engines. _______________ and humans build dams. _______________ use earth, rock, and concrete to build very high dams. _______________ build dams with sticks, branches, and mud. _______________ build a stick lodge right next to their dam. _______________ build hydroelectric plants next to their dams. The Grand Coulee Dam and Bonneville Dam in Washington made hydroelectricity for the Manhattan Project. Dams built by _______________ protect people from floods and provide water for irrigation and electricity. The dam and lodge protect _______________ from their predators. Engineering Our Community 6 Building Our Community Albin Pherson was the architect who designed Richland’s Alphabet Houses. Architect Albin designed thirteen different types of houses for the Manhattan Project community. He named each type of house after a letter in the alphabet. The government assigned workers to a house based on the worker’s job and the size of their family. The government gave each house a class number. CLASS 1 HOUSES: A and B houses were built for workers and laborers. These houses were the most common houses. CLASS 2 HOUSES: H and F houses were built for mid-managers and engineers. CLASS 3 HOUSES: D, E, G, and L houses were built for the most important people working on the Manhattan Project. Do you think it was fair for the government to assign a person a house based on the person’s job? Why or why not? ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ________ 7 Building Our Community Activity: Design an Alphabet House Architect Albin needs a new alphabet house designed and he wants your help! 1. Draw an alphabet house in the space below. 2. Write the name of your house above your drawing. Remember to name your house after a letter in the alphabet. 3. Write the class number of your house below your drawing. Building Our Community 8 Feeding Our Community During World War II, the government asked Americans to grow victory gardens for their communities and for American soldiers. Americans grew all types of herbs, fruits, and vegetables in their victory gardens. Across America, people planted gardens in backyards and community gardens. Americans living in cities even planted victory gardens on rooftops and fire escapes! NURSERY RECOMMENDATIONS Carrots: Partial sun to full sun. Medium water. Can grow in a pot. Spinach: Shade to full sun. Too much sun can kill spinach. Medium water.