The Daily Schedule
*** Limit of 16 campers per week, ages 7-12***
Mon-Fri 8:30 am-2pm
Session 1:
Above and Below
May 22- 26, June 5- 9, June 19-23, July 3- 7
From the depths of the ocean to Voyager 1 in space, we will explore parts of te world below us and above us
8:15 - 8:30 Drop off/Arrival
8:30- 8:45 Gratitude Circle and Games
8:45 - 10 Lesson/Activity (listed below)
10:00-10:30 Snack (Bring your own) and Obstacle Course
10:30-12:00 Lesson/Activity (listed below)
12:00 Lunch
12:30- 2:00 Hiking, exploring,playing at creek and nature crafting
2:00- Pick up/Dismissal
***Friday at 2pm will be a performance of the explorers' original play***
Session 1 Topics and Activities
Day 1:
Science: Asteroids, meteoroids, meteors, meteorites, comets and craters, Current theories for the birth of the moon
Art: Paint Bomb art
Geography: Craters around the world
Games: Meteorite Challenge
Day 2:
Science: Exploration Technology (from deep sea robots to Voyager 1), NASA Missions
Engineering: Make and launch your own foam rocket
Geography: From the highest mountain to the deepest known point on Earth
Day 3:
Math: Universal Repeating Patterns (spirals, fractals, tessellations)
Art: DIY Tessellations
Science: World Wide web vs the Wood Wide web vs Deep Space Network, Why fungi are important for a healthy forest
Games: Guess that Image Close-ups
Day 4:
Science: Where/why wind occurs and affects on land (how and why of tornados, dirt devils, hurricanes, monsoons)
Engineering: Design and build a
Game: A Great Wind Blows for everyone who...,
Day 5:
Science/Geography: The man-made world beneath us (underground cities,subways, mines and shipwrecks) vs nature's world beneath us (caves, aquifers and homes built by underground creatures), Future of Subterranean Architecture
Art/Engineering: Design an underground city (with key issues of fresh water/graywater/blackwater, vegetation, power, fresh air, etc)
Session 2:
Inside and Out
May 29-June 2, June 12-16, June 26- 30,
July 10-14
From parts of an atom within us to Galaxies beyond, we will explore connections between our human body and the Universe.
8:15 - 8:30 Drop off/Arrival
8:30- 8:45 Gratitude Circle and Games
8:45 - 10 Lesson/Activity (listed below)
10:00-10:30 Snack (Bring your own) and Obstacle Course
10:30-12:00 Lesson/Activity (listed below)
12:00 Lunch
12:30- 2:00 Hiking, exploring,playing at creek and nature crafting
2:00- Pick up/Dismissal
***Friday at 2pm will be a performance of the explorers' original play***
Session 2 Topics and Activities
Day 1:
Science: Our Senses vs. Animal senses, how and why are animal senses different from ours?
Art: How might a bee see? UV light flower art
Games: Deers Ears, Going to a Party as a...
Day 2:
Science: Similar Systems Part 1(How our body and a city function in similar ways) skeletal, muscle, nervous system
Engineering: DIY Robot Hand
Games: Skeleton Relay, Muscle Reflexes
Day 3:
Science: Similar Systems Part 2 (Cells, Digestive, Respiratory, Circulatory and Immune System)
Art: Edible Cell Model
Games: Circulatory and Immune System games (modified)
Day 4:
Science: Cycles within us and the universe (life cycle of stars, cells, seasons, carbon, etc)
Art: Infinity Flipper with cycles
Game: Life Cycles relay
Day 5:
Science: Unsolved Mysteries (the need for future scientists to explore unanswered questions about ourselves and our universe: why we dream, yawn,cry tears, have fingerprints, what is dark matter, a black hole, unexplored caves and ocean depths, and more )
Game: Who dun it?