Library Math and Science Camp

A classroom setting. The heart of summer. An instructor standing before a flip chart, worksheets in hand. Sounds like a recipe for disaster for the average elementary aged child who might want to be anywhere but here on a sunny July afternoon.

That certainly isn't the case inside the Family Learning Lab of the East Arlington branch library.

Eight kids, most of them fourth graders, are talking, laughing and thoroughly engaged in the prospect of learning about plant photosynthesis in the Arlington Library Math and Science Camp.

"Photosynthesis is how plants produces food for itself," instructor Rachel Foster explains. "Does anyone know what a plant needs in order to survive?"

Hands shoot up.

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