Fall 2021 In-Person Classes
COVID INFORMATIION
Effective 8/5/21
As a charter school vendor, I have signed contracts and am legally required to apply the COVID precaution requirements of the most restrictive charter school to any class I teach. Failure to follow the requirements could result in a charter school teminating my contract.
The following requirements will apply to all charter school and privately homeschooled students:
1) All students and adults must wear a mask while indoors. Masks below the nose and mesh/lace masks are not allowed.
2) Students do not need to wear masks when outdoors.
If charter schools no longer allow outdoor gatherings during the class session, I will cancel the class and refund all unused fees.
For more information: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx and https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx
Effective 8/5/21
As a charter school vendor, I have signed contracts and am legally required to apply the COVID precaution requirements of the most restrictive charter school to any class I teach. Failure to follow the requirements could result in a charter school teminating my contract.
The following requirements will apply to all charter school and privately homeschooled students:
1) All students and adults must wear a mask while indoors. Masks below the nose and mesh/lace masks are not allowed.
2) Students do not need to wear masks when outdoors.
If charter schools no longer allow outdoor gatherings during the class session, I will cancel the class and refund all unused fees.
For more information: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/guidance-for-face-coverings.aspx and https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/K-12-Guidance-2021-22-School-Year.aspx
Anatomy and Problem-Solving Creations 1
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 through 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 and lungs, build a digestive tract model, and design/test pill coatings. All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details). Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded. This class will be followed by Anatomy and Problem-Solving Creations 2 (Spring 2022)
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 through 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 and lungs, build a digestive tract model, and design/test pill coatings. All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details). Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded. This class will be followed by Anatomy and Problem-Solving Creations 2 (Spring 2022)
- I am a vendor with Horizon, Visions, Clarksville, The Cottonwood School, Feather River, South Sutter, American River Charter School, and Pacific Charter Institute (Heritage Peak, Sutter Peak, Rio Valley, & Valley View). To order a certificate/PO/voucher, look for "Lisa Hindmarsh" or "Hands-On Science" in your charter school's ordering system.
- Questions about this class? Call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
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Electricity and Mini-Robots
Students 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. This class does not cover robotics programming. All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details). Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded. This class will be followed by Crime Scene Investigation (Spring 2022).
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders accepted in classes offered in Rescue- see below for details)
Class Fee: $240
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr./class
Tuesdays: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. (EDH), Thursdays: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m.. (Placerville)
Mondays: 11:30 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. - 6 weeks - 2 hr./class (Rescue)
3 Locations:
Students 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. This class does not cover robotics programming. All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details). Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded. This class will be followed by Crime Scene Investigation (Spring 2022).
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders accepted in classes offered in Rescue- see below for details)
Class Fee: $240
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr./class
Tuesdays: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. (EDH), Thursdays: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m.. (Placerville)
Mondays: 11:30 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. - 6 weeks - 2 hr./class (Rescue)
3 Locations:
- El Dorado Hills/Placerville with Foothill Learning Academy (FLA). Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
- Rescue: Monday outdoor class at my home in Rescue. Masks are not required. Click the button below for more info about this class option.
- I am a vendor with Horizon, Visions, Clarksville, The Cottonwood School, Feather River, South Sutter, American River Charter School, and Pacific Charter Institute (Heritage Peak, Sutter Peak, Rio Valley, & Valley View). To order a certificate/PO/voucher, look for "Lisa Hindmarsh" or "Hands-On Science" in your charter school's ordering system.
- Questions about this class? Call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
Flippy the Dancing Robot
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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. All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details). Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded.
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders are welcome, too)
Class Fee: $210
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr/class
Wednesday: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. (EDH)
Location: El Dorado Hills with Foothill Learning Academy (FLA). Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
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. All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details). Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded.
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders are welcome, too)
Class Fee: $210
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr/class
Wednesday: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. (EDH)
Location: El Dorado Hills with Foothill Learning Academy (FLA). Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
- I am a vendor with Horizon, Visions, Clarksville, The Cottonwood School, Feather River, South Sutter, American River Charter School, and Pacific Charter Institute (Heritage Peak, Sutter Peak, Rio Valley, & Valley View). To order a certificate/PO/voucher, look for "Lisa Hindmarsh" or "Hands-On Science" in your charter school's ordering system.
- Questions about this class? Call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
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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 online Spring 2021.) All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details) . Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded. This class will be followed by Rollercoaster STEM (Spring 2022).
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders are welcome, too)
Class Fee: $210
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr/class
Wednesdays: 10 a.m, 11 a.m. (EDH)
Location: El Dorado Hills with Foothill Learning Academy (FLA). Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
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 online Spring 2021.) All class supplies are included in the fee, but I'm collecting items we can recycle from home (click button below for details) . Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded. This class will be followed by Rollercoaster STEM (Spring 2022).
Grade level: 4-8 (mature 3rd graders are welcome, too)
Class Fee: $210
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr/class
Wednesdays: 10 a.m, 11 a.m. (EDH)
Location: El Dorado Hills with Foothill Learning Academy (FLA). Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
- I am a vendor with Horizon, Visions, Clarksville, The Cottonwood School, Feather River, South Sutter, American River Charter School, and Pacific Charter Institute (Heritage Peak, Sutter Peak, Rio Valley, & Valley View)
- Questions about this class? Call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
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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. A small personal sewing kit and project supplies are included in the class fee. Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded.
Grade level: 3-8
Class Fee: $180
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr/class
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays: 9 a.m. (EDH/Placerville)
Location: El Dorado Hills/Placerville with Foothill Learning Academy. Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
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. A small personal sewing kit and project supplies are included in the class fee. Due to the interactive nature of this class, it will be cancelled if in-person classes are shut down and fee for cancelled classes refunded.
Grade level: 3-8
Class Fee: $180
Class Length: 12 weeks - 1 hr/class
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays: 9 a.m. (EDH/Placerville)
Location: El Dorado Hills/Placerville with Foothill Learning Academy. Please go to the FLA website to register for this class. 2021 FALL SCHEDULE | foothill (foothilllearningacademy.com).
- I am a vendor with Horizon, Visions, Clarksville, The Cottonwood School, Feather River, South Sutter, American River Charter School, and Pacific Charter Institute (Heritage Peak, Sutter Peak, Rio Valley, & Valley View)
- Questions about this class? Call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
Dissection Labs
Click below to go to the dissection labs page.
Click below to go to the dissection labs page.
Microscopy
Explore the exciting hidden world with a microbiologist! In this class, students will explore the wonders of pond water (diatoms/spirulina/protozoa and various other tiny creatures), stain and examine their cheek cells and plant cells (eukaryotes), examine different types of bacteria (prokaryotes), and discover the beauty of butterfly wings and other insects parts. Students will also learn the parts and functions of a microscope, how to properly use a microscope without damaging lenses and slides, how to prepare wet mount and well slides, and use a simple microtome. I provide high-quality microscopes for students to use, however, students are welcome to bring their own microscope and I can show them how to use it properly.
Explore the exciting hidden world with a microbiologist! In this class, students will explore the wonders of pond water (diatoms/spirulina/protozoa and various other tiny creatures), stain and examine their cheek cells and plant cells (eukaryotes), examine different types of bacteria (prokaryotes), and discover the beauty of butterfly wings and other insects parts. Students will also learn the parts and functions of a microscope, how to properly use a microscope without damaging lenses and slides, how to prepare wet mount and well slides, and use a simple microtome. I provide high-quality microscopes for students to use, however, students are welcome to bring their own microscope and I can show them how to use it properly.
