Crime Scene Science
For students completing 5-7 grades
Student detectives will:
*Use paper chromatography to investigate solubility, pigments, and separation of mixtures.
*Explore and understand scientific models.
*Mix chemicals that bubble, change color, and produce gas, heat, and odor.
$150
Science Imagination
For students finishing 1-2 grades
Students will:
*Complete hands on activities and experiments
*Utilize teamwork.
*Use imagination and science to have fun solve problems.
*Create, build, and mix a variety of materials.
*Compete with other teams to develop solutions to several different challenges presented to them each day.
$150
Our Amazing Solar System & Stars
For students completing 3-4 grades
Students will:
*Study the planets and stars (including our sun).
*Learn songs.
*Perform science experiments.
*Perform a play.
This camp is packed with fun and discovery of our solar system and stars.
$225
Forensic Investigators- What happened to Felix?
For students completing 6-7 grades
Forensic Investigators will:
*Study the "crime scene,"
*Conduct crime-lab tests from the evidence.
*Analyze test results, and try to solve the mystery. *Explore many key content areas
*Discover the distinction between evidence and inference.
* Complete thread tests, powder tests, DNA comparison, chromatography, and fingerprinting to determine the identification of the criminal.
*Utilize logical thinking, and real-life connections.
*Absorb processes that will be useful in all content disciplines.
$250
Treasure Boxes
For students completing K-2
In this engaging, innovative camp of mathematics activities, children:
*Create personal collections of recycled, and "found" objects.
*Use investigative properties to further develop science and math skills.
*Share in collecting, sorting, and setting up treasure boxes.
*Experience a correlation of each activity with children’s literature as a tie to additional content areas.
$150
Leap, Predict, Ponder, Play
For students completing K-2
This lively camp jumps off from one of the well-known Frog and Toad are Friends stories, "The Lost Button." The story leads to:
*Free exploration of buttons, sorting and classifying.
*Play the game "Guess the Sort".
*Design their buttons and use a graphing grid to organize data.*Students develop the valuable life skill of estimating.
* Students develop strategic thinking skills.
*Experiment in probability and statistics.
$150
Card Game Math Magic
For students completing grades 3-4
Card Game Math Magic: The students will:
*Use a regular deck of cards to develop math skills.
*Practice and reinforce addition, subtraction, multiplication, and place value skills (to name a few).
*Learn a variety of card tricks.
*Come home with a personal deck of playing cards to demonstrate new math skills or maybe a quick slight of hand.
$150
Big Science For Little Friends
For students completing K-1
Total science fun for our young learners! Science experiments that will zip, zoom, fly and fizz, bubble and burst ~ all while learning about the forces of science that are all around us. Little ones will problem solve and discover with delight.
$150
Adventures In Algebra
For students completing grades 3-4
Using the compelling context of “Zero the Hero,” students learn:
*The important role zero plays in our number system.
*Explore the concepts of equality and inequality.
*Represent and analyze mathematical situations using algebraic symbols.
*Join Professor Arbegla and his "Fabulous Function Machine".
*Build a foundation in algebraic reasoning.
$150
Conservations Sleuths- Who Is Polluting The Gray Area?
For students completing 5-7
This engaging camp is focused on a fictional town that is enduring environmental damage from a variety of potential sources. Throughout this camp, students learn:
*The interconnectedness of the natural world and the complexity of many environmental problems.
*Consider pollution from many sources.
*Perform chemical and biological tests.
*Track changes in predator-prey relationships.
*Use evidence to develop and present an argument that finger the “culprit(s),”
$150
Where's Mr. Bear?- A Fact Finding Mission
For students completing grades 1-3
This high interest and engaging camp allows students to:
*Develop theories about who borrowed Mr. Bear.
*Perform forensic tests and experiments, to gather “crime scene” evidence.
*Solve the mystery.
*Develop an argument for who “committed the crime”.
$250
Restaurant Redemption
For students completing grades 4-6
The Rosada family asks students for help as they:
*Open a Mexican restaurant.
*Plan the menu.
*Determine different combinations of tostada ingredients.
*Analyze costs, set prices, expand into combination plates.
*Figure out the best ways to arrange tables and chairs in a new location.
*Gain increasingly sophisticated understandings of combinations. *Work with data organization and analysis and to explore aspects of statistics.
*Strengthen number sense, addition/multiplication abilities, and understanding of money in the real world.
$150