S&E Classes
Did you know we also offer Pre-K and middle school classes as well?
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Fall 2021: Architecture and Engineering
Grades K-1 or K-2: Dive into Dimensions
Dive into the world of engineering where we will land in a sea of shapes. Use different shapes and building materials to make the strongest bridge and a tower taller than you! Work with simple machines, balance on a zip line and discover who lives in cone-shaped homes. Make models of these while exploring what key shapes make them so strong.
Grades 2-3, 1-3, or 2-4: Scaling Great Heights
Grab your passport and hang on tight! We will be traveling the world learning about architectural marvels in this adventurous class. From the leaning tower of Pisa in Italy to the tallest tower in Dubai, you will be exploring a different bridge, tower, or unique structure and discover the engineering behind it. Build models and test their strength. During your travel, learn a new code each week. Can you crack the code at the end of your journey?
Grades 3-5 or 4-5: Rockin’ Engineers
Construct, build, and propel yourself through this exciting hands-on STEM adventure! Explore engineering and architecture professions from roller coaster design and bridge construction while learning about Newton’s laws of motion, forces, and energy! You will be making models of structures and testing their strength and accuracy. Build your own geodesic dome and test the trajectory of a launching catapult and air powered rocket!
Engineering
Grades 2-4: Building Big and Small
Build a miniature green roof and life-size tipis. In this hands-on series, children will stretch their understanding of what makes structures strong, learn and apply geometry and measurement concepts, and learn new history, vocabulary, and craft skills.
Robotics
Grades K-1 or K-2: Introduction to Robotics and Coding
Learn coding, logic, and loops by programming a KIBO robot. What are the essential commands for any program? How can you command KIBO to make noise, avoid obstacles, shine its light, dance, and then do it all over again? Write your code, test it out, and revise as necessary. Use the light, sound, and distance sensors to create conditional statements. Lego® build-ons and catapults make KIBO endless fun. Become a KIBO master!
Winter 2022: Chemistry
Explore the nature of matter by mixing solutions, creating reactions, and testing the properties of gases, liquids, and solids in Chemistry!
Grades K-1 or K-2: Chemistry Detectives
Explore solids, liquids, and gases and create new materials from exothermic and endothermic chemical reactions. Use viscosity and density to describe liquids and make your own lava tubes. Experiment with mixtures, solutions, acids, and bases to help solve our gold paper caper, mix a polymer, and make glue from milk.
Grades 2-3, 1-3, or 2-4: Chemistry Creations
Test the saturation point of solutions, learn how to separate liquids using evaporation, chromatography, and . Explore capillary action, create physical and chemical reactions, and use yeast to detect sugars and starches. Examine the properties of mixtures and non-mixing materials, test pH levels of common substances, and make a polymer.
Grades 3-5 or 4-5: Your Own Mini-Lab
Detect and measure invisible matter, test for vitamin C and E and whether vitamins are fat or water soluble. Use Chemistry to solve mysteries, titrate acids and bases, and test flow resistance. Learn how retention factors affect chromatography, and make cheese and goop.
Engineering
Grades 2-4: Building Big and Small
Build a miniature green roof and life-size tipis. In this hands-on series, children will stretch their understanding of what makes structures strong, learn and apply geometry and measurement concepts, and learn new history, vocabulary, and craft skills.
Spring 2020: The Physics of Color and Light
Grades K-1 or K-2: Optrix
Discover the world of col-or and light with playful experiments and a couple of tricks along the way! Examine the effect of light on pupils and explore the eye adaptations of nocturnal animals. Use prisms to explore colors and wave lengths. Com-pare light colors to pigments and explore symmetry and reflection with multiple mirrors and crystals. Test the refractive powers of water and gelatin; explore convex and concave mirrors and magnification; and learn about the ‘persistence of vision’ that explains many common visual effects.
Grades 2-3, 1-3, or 2-4: Illusions
Step right up and join us as we discover the world of op-tics! Bounce light off water, break light into pieces and learn how to make straight lines curve without bending them. Come see what your eyes can see in this light adventurous class! Study the anatomy of your own eye and learn how we ‘see’. Explore binocular vision, test for a dominant eye, and compare pigments and light. Learn how light bends with gelatin, water, and fiber optics; make your own binoculars to explore magnification, convex and concave lenses and mirrors; and use mirrors to learn the law of reflection.
Grades 3-5 or 4-5: Kaleidoscope
Beam into the future and experiment with fiber optics! Children will make a model of their eye and test the limits of their own sight to learn about blind spots, peripheral vision, and right/left dominance. They will see how the eye looks up close by dissecting a real cow’s eye and learn how light and color are used to create 3D movies, micro-scopes, and sunglasses! Experiment with mirrors and lenses to illustrate reflection, symmetry, and refraction.
Engineering
Grades 2-4 : Eco-Kid
Each week young ecologists design and construct amazing habitats and explore plant and animal life cycles. Students in ECO-Kid take a deep dive into one project a week. Over the course of the session they will create a nesting cache, a grass scape, a wick-fed farm, and a salt water habitat for their own brine shrimp, among other projects. This program introduces students to the themes of sustainability, extinction, and biodiversity.
Robotics
Grades K-1 or K-2: Introduction to Robotics and Coding
Learn coding, logic, and loops by programming a KIBO robot. What are the essential commands for any program? How can you command KIBO to make noise, avoid obstacles, shine its light, dance, and then do it all over again? Write your code, test it out, and revise as necessary. Use the light, sound, and distance sensors to create conditional statements. Lego® build-ons and catapults make KIBO endless fun. Become a KIBO master!