Tentative Fall 2021 In-Person Classes
Anatomy and Biomedical Engineering
Students will explore various body systems and create medical devices for them. Examples of some of the activities/models: build a pasta skeletal model and edible bone model, design/build a prosthetic leg, walk though a large heart model to understand the structure of the heart and how blood is oxygenated, design/build a device to clear a blocked artery, examine a pig heart, design/build eye protection, build an ear model, design/build a device to remove an object from an ear, build a digestive tract model, design/test pill coatings, and more.
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $225 (includes a $25 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Students will explore various body systems and create medical devices for them. Examples of some of the activities/models: build a pasta skeletal model and edible bone model, design/build a prosthetic leg, walk though a large heart model to understand the structure of the heart and how blood is oxygenated, design/build a device to clear a blocked artery, examine a pig heart, design/build eye protection, build an ear model, design/build a device to remove an object from an ear, build a digestive tract model, design/test pill coatings, and more.
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $225 (includes a $25 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
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Electricity and Mini-Robots
Stidents will explore the basics of electricity by building a vibrobot and dancing robot, creating circuit cards and assembling breadboard circuits, testing conductivity of various materials, building a battery, homopolar motor, and lightbulb, creating an electric dough sculpture, and learning about "electricity" scientists.
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $240 (includes a $40 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Stidents will explore the basics of electricity by building a vibrobot and dancing robot, creating circuit cards and assembling breadboard circuits, testing conductivity of various materials, building a battery, homopolar motor, and lightbulb, creating an electric dough sculpture, and learning about "electricity" scientists.
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $240 (includes a $40 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Vibrobots
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Flippy the Dancing Robot
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Electric Dough Sculpture
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homopolar motor
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Animal and Plant Adaptations
What's so special about your thumbs? Why does a Venus Fly Trap eat flies? Why do nasty plant stickers exist? Why are there so many bird beak shapes? These questions and more will be answered through model making and activities. Students will design/build their own plant sticker, investigate water tension and test their water strider's ability to move on water, test bird beak shapes and cold weather adaptations, learn about plant adaptations in different biomes, and more.
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $210 (includes a $10 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
What's so special about your thumbs? Why does a Venus Fly Trap eat flies? Why do nasty plant stickers exist? Why are there so many bird beak shapes? These questions and more will be answered through model making and activities. Students will design/build their own plant sticker, investigate water tension and test their water strider's ability to move on water, test bird beak shapes and cold weather adaptations, learn about plant adaptations in different biomes, and more.
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $210 (includes a $10 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
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Astronomy
Students will explore the wonders of the universe through model building and activities. Topics include the Sun, the planets, the solar system's size, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids, low-mass and high-mass star life cycles, black holes, nebulae, and craters. Students will build models of asteroids and comets, "travel" to each planet to observe interesting phenomena, create a nebula in a bottle and a high-mass/low-mass star life cycle mobile, view the Sun using special solar glasses, and more. I will schedule a night for students to meet at the Community Observatory in Placerville. (This is the same class that was offered Spring 2021 semester and will be followed by Chemistry in Spring 2022.)
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $210 (includes a $10 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Students will explore the wonders of the universe through model building and activities. Topics include the Sun, the planets, the solar system's size, comets, asteroids, and meteoroids, low-mass and high-mass star life cycles, black holes, nebulae, and craters. Students will build models of asteroids and comets, "travel" to each planet to observe interesting phenomena, create a nebula in a bottle and a high-mass/low-mass star life cycle mobile, view the Sun using special solar glasses, and more. I will schedule a night for students to meet at the Community Observatory in Placerville. (This is the same class that was offered Spring 2021 semester and will be followed by Chemistry in Spring 2022.)
Grade level: 4-8
Class Fee: $210 (includes a $10 supplies fee)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
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Hand Sewing 1
Hand sewing is a fun and creative activity that is also useful! In this class, students will learn this extremely valuable lifelong skill through a variety of engaging projects designed to teach traditional hand stitches. The project-based learning includes sewing a needle book, a pincushion, a button "tree", a felt mouse, and a drawstring bag. Additionally, throughout the class, students will be exposed to vocabulary unique to the world of sewing.
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $180 (includes a small personal sewing kit and fabric)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Hand sewing is a fun and creative activity that is also useful! In this class, students will learn this extremely valuable lifelong skill through a variety of engaging projects designed to teach traditional hand stitches. The project-based learning includes sewing a needle book, a pincushion, a button "tree", a felt mouse, and a drawstring bag. Additionally, throughout the class, students will be exposed to vocabulary unique to the world of sewing.
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $180 (includes a small personal sewing kit and fabric)
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Financial Literacy
Early financial literacy teaches kids how to have a good relationship with money, an invaluable lifelong skill. This class will focus on the importance of financial responsibility, money management, and smart decision making through engaging activities.
Grade level: 6-8
Class Fee: $180
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Early financial literacy teaches kids how to have a good relationship with money, an invaluable lifelong skill. This class will focus on the importance of financial responsibility, money management, and smart decision making through engaging activities.
Grade level: 6-8
Class Fee: $180
Class Length: 12 weeks - 55 minutes/class
Location: TBD
Solar Oven Physics, Bubblology, and the Wonders of Water
In this outdoor class, students will explore the wonders of solar cooking, bubbles and water. Through hands-on activities, students will build a solar oven and hygrometer, create unique bubble shapes, test and alter water's surface tension, and examine a bubble's rainbow colors. Plan on getting a little wet!
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $150
Class Length: Four 2-hour classes (8 hours total)
Class Size: 8 - 10 students
Location: Rescue
Session 1: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Session 2: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m
In this outdoor class, students will explore the wonders of solar cooking, bubbles and water. Through hands-on activities, students will build a solar oven and hygrometer, create unique bubble shapes, test and alter water's surface tension, and examine a bubble's rainbow colors. Plan on getting a little wet!
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $150
Class Length: Four 2-hour classes (8 hours total)
Class Size: 8 - 10 students
Location: Rescue
Session 1: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Session 2: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m
Rockets!
In this outdoor class, students will explore Newton's Third Law of Motion by designing, building, and launching simple rubberband and air pressure propelled rockets.
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $150
Class Length: Four 2-hour classes (8 hours total)
Class Size: 8 - 10 students
Location: Rescue
Session 1: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Session 2: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m
In this outdoor class, students will explore Newton's Third Law of Motion by designing, building, and launching simple rubberband and air pressure propelled rockets.
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $150
Class Length: Four 2-hour classes (8 hours total)
Class Size: 8 - 10 students
Location: Rescue
Session 1: 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Session 2: 1 p.m. - 3 p.m
Dissection Labs (See Dissection Labs page for details)
Students will examine the internal and external anatomy of each specimen. Students will have their own specimen to dissect along with their own set of dissection tools to use.
Students will examine the internal and external anatomy of each specimen. Students will have their own specimen to dissect along with their own set of dissection tools to use.
