These classes are offered on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Foothill Learning Academy
(El Dorado Hills & Placerville)
There is still room in some classes!!
(El Dorado Hills & Placerville)
There is still room in some classes!!
Physics: Motion, Density, and More
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $225
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Tuesday (El Dorado Hills), Thursday (Placerville)
Students will explore force, work, Newton's Laws of Motion, density of solids and liquids, and buoyancy. Some of the hands-on activities include using density cubes and a triple beam balance to calculate density of a solid, making a "flinker" to test buoyancy, and using Hot Wheels cars to observe the laws of motion
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website. Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $225
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Tuesday (El Dorado Hills), Thursday (Placerville)
Students will explore force, work, Newton's Laws of Motion, density of solids and liquids, and buoyancy. Some of the hands-on activities include using density cubes and a triple beam balance to calculate density of a solid, making a "flinker" to test buoyancy, and using Hot Wheels cars to observe the laws of motion
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website. Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Oceanography
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $225
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville), Tuesday (El Dorado Hills), Thursday (Placerville
Students will dive in and explore the ocean and its inhabitants. Some of the topics to be covered through hands-on activities and models include bioluminescence, sea life adaptations, jellyfish life cycle, the ocean’s salinity, mapping the seafloor, squid dissection, coral, kelp, and marine food webs.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $225
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville), Tuesday (El Dorado Hills), Thursday (Placerville
Students will dive in and explore the ocean and its inhabitants. Some of the topics to be covered through hands-on activities and models include bioluminescence, sea life adaptations, jellyfish life cycle, the ocean’s salinity, mapping the seafloor, squid dissection, coral, kelp, and marine food webs.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Electricity and Mini-Robots
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $240
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville), Tuesday (El Dorado Hills), Thursday (Placerville)
Students will explore the basics of electricity by building a bristlebot and dancing robot, creating circuit cards, assembling breadboard circuits, and building an electroscope, induction motor, and homopolar motor. This class does not cover robotics programming.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $240
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville), Tuesday (El Dorado Hills), Thursday (Placerville)
Students will explore the basics of electricity by building a bristlebot and dancing robot, creating circuit cards, assembling breadboard circuits, and building an electroscope, induction motor, and homopolar motor. This class does not cover robotics programming.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
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Roller Coaster STEM Challenge
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $200
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville)
While building paper roller coasters for marbles, students will explore the physics (potential and kinetic energy, friction, inertia, and gravity) and the engineering design process used by engineers in designing roller coasters. Student teams will compete to build the most creative, exciting, and slowest roller coaster.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $200
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville)
While building paper roller coasters for marbles, students will explore the physics (potential and kinetic energy, friction, inertia, and gravity) and the engineering design process used by engineers in designing roller coasters. Student teams will compete to build the most creative, exciting, and slowest roller coaster.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
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Hand Sewing: Level 1
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $185
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville)
Hand sewing is a fun and creative activity that is also useful! In this class, students will learn this 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. Class fee includes a small personal sewing kit and fabric.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
Grades 4-8
Class Fee: $185
Class Length: Twelve 1-hour classes
Location/Days: Foothill Learning Academy - Monday (Placerville)
Hand sewing is a fun and creative activity that is also useful! In this class, students will learn this 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. Class fee includes a small personal sewing kit and fabric.
For questions about the class, email Lisa at lisahandsonscience@gmail.com or call 530-313-3789.
To register for this class, go to the Foothill Learning Academy website.Foothill Learning Academy | K-12 Homeschool Classes | California
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