Hartshorn - Grades 4 & 5
All Charged Up!! Imagine spending a week taking part in safe, hands-on, battery-operated experiments in our science laboratory. Each day you will make a different battery-operated device and then take it home. You will discover how batteries and circuits work. You will build a burglar alarm, telegraph, quiz game, steady-hand game, and electromagnets. 6/28-7/2, 7/26-7/30
Become A Student Of Archeology: Do you like to dig for buried treasure in the dirt? Find lost items? Figure out what these clues to the past mean? Learn about the past? These are all things archeologists do, maybe you are one too? Let’s see what stories from the past we can uncover in the grounds around PMEC using screens we build ourselves. 8/16-8/20
Cast Away - Fishing Fun! Spend the week exploring and fishing the streams and ponds in the area around PMEC. Learn the types of fish found in ponds and streams and how best to catch them. Our instructor will teach you the ins and outs of fishing using a variety of methods. Build a lure, fly and jig. 6/22-6/25, 7/26-7/30
Fun with Microscopes - Explore The World Of Very Tiny Things: For one week you will explore microscopy—using a microscope to view things. You will enter the world of the very small. You will prepare microscope slides and then view life found in a drop of pond water, water fleas, insect parts, plant cells, human cells, crystals, hair, thread, pepper, salt, sugar, yeast and many other tiny things. 8/2-8/6
Going Buggy - A Study In Entomology: Bugs, Bugs everywhere! Take a close look at the miniature marvels insect are and understand how these alien creatures impact our world. We’ll study ants, bees, beetles, spiders even mosquito's paying close attention to their life cycle, habitat and the effect they have on the world around us. Create a bug chart, build a bug box and shadow box a bug. 7/12-7/16
Inspired By Nature Created By You: Come experience art from art’s original source “nature”. Let’s get creative outdoors! We’ll use natural items, found objects and many artist materials to express our creative side. We will hike trails and wade in woodland streams drawing inspiration from nature. 6/28-7/2, 8/16-8/20
Nature In Film: Remember the wonderful wildlife show of years ago “Wild Kingdom”? This class will give our creative minded kids the opportunity to create a movie of nature at it’s best. Perhaps document the home of Mr. & Mrs. Chipmunk in some of their daily activities or perhaps a cloud movie put to music. We’ll film, edit, combine music and sub-titles to produce a short movie with each child. 8/2-8/6
Outdoor Awareness Skills: Learn and practice the fundamentals of camp craft and wilderness survival. This program includes instruction in safety, shelter construction, trail cuisine, fire building, orienteering skills, and animal tracking. 7/6-7/9
Pond Creatures And Plants: Leap into the wetlands! During this wetland ecology class we will explore ponds, swamps and marshes. Investigate wetland creatures, plants and their habitats. Evaluate ways to preserve wetlands. 7/19-7/23
Who Done It? Forensics: Immerse yourself in a hands-on series of imaginary crime scene investigations. Learn about scientific techniques used to gather evidence, such as fingerprinting, analyzing handwriting, collecting and observing hair and fibers under a microscope, use chemistry to compare unknown powders, and to separate colors. 6/22-6/25, 7/19-7/23
Woodland Fairy Adventures
MORNING SESSION Miss Sierra & her Fairy Friends will be making magical Fairy Gardens. Children will take home their own miniature *Garden in a Box* -- each one unique & special. Along with the creation of their wee Fairy Gardens, we will also make Flower Petal Fairies and there will be Nature Walks, Storytelling, Music & Dance. Festive Fairy attire is welcome. On Friday, everyone will attend a *Graduation Celebration Fairy Tea*! 8/9-8/13 9am-12pm
AFTERNOON SESSION Miss Sierra's August afternoon class works well as a complement to her morning class (Fairy Gardens) or all on it's own. Children will design & make wee Fairy Garden Furniture fashioned out of nature's gifts -- shells, acorns, milk weed pods, reflective mica, twigs, river rocks & more. To balance the creative handwork activities, there will be a Fairy Play, music, dance & storytelling. Festive Fairy attire is welcome. On Friday, a special *Graduation Celebration Fairy Tea* will be served! 8/9-8/13 1-4pm
Young Chemists: Each day in our laboratory you will explore the world of chemistry with safe, hands-on activities. You will experiment with carbon dioxide, make slime, make ice cream, learn how to clean dirty pennies, write with invisible ink, learn about polymers by looking inside a diaper, make rock candy, grow a crystal garden, blow huge bubbles, make glue, and much more. 7/6-7/9, 7/12-7/16, 8/9-8/13 (2 Classes)
Last Hurrah! Outdoor Adventure Club - August 23-27
The final full week of summer will be spent learning about the environment around the PMEC through hikes, pond exploration and walks in the stream. Each days lesson will focus on a different part of our environment. We will go fishing, play games, sing songs, create works of art and most of all have fun. Students Grades K - 8 (kids will be grouped by age)
Please note: Classes below are listed by date.
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