Fall 2022 Outdoor Classes
Biology, Space Exploration, Dissections, and Microscopy
(Scroll down the page to see all the class descriptions.)
Biology, Space Exploration, Dissections, and Microscopy
(Scroll down the page to see all the class descriptions.)
Outdoor Science and Art Classes
Hands-On Science and Jennifer Rowe Studio have teamed up to offer back-to-back outdoor science and art classes. You can enjoy over 4 hours to yourself if your child attends both!
Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.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).
Hands-On Science and Jennifer Rowe Studio have teamed up to offer back-to-back outdoor science and art classes. You can enjoy over 4 hours to yourself if your child attends both!
Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.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).
Fall 2020 outdoor class schedule
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Biology A
This class has a waitlist. I often have seats open up right before classes start, so contact me if you'd like to add your child to the waitlist.
Grades 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $188
Class Length: Five 2-hour classes (10 hours total)
Days/Time: Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 (Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 are flex days if we need to cancel due to inclement weather or smoke.)
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
Students will explore scientific inquiry, the animal cell, cellular respiration, osmosis/diffusion, DNA structure, cell division (mitosis), genetics, bacteria, viruses, and protists. Examples of some of the activities/models: build cell, DNA, virus, bacterium, and protozoa models, extract DNA from strawberries, perform Easter egg genetics while learning about Punnett squares, and growing bacteria on agar plates. (This class includes 10 of the 12 labs I teach at FLA.)
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
This class has a waitlist. I often have seats open up right before classes start, so contact me if you'd like to add your child to the waitlist.
Grades 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $188
Class Length: Five 2-hour classes (10 hours total)
Days/Time: Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 (Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 are flex days if we need to cancel due to inclement weather or smoke.)
Time: 9-11 a.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
Students will explore scientific inquiry, the animal cell, cellular respiration, osmosis/diffusion, DNA structure, cell division (mitosis), genetics, bacteria, viruses, and protists. Examples of some of the activities/models: build cell, DNA, virus, bacterium, and protozoa models, extract DNA from strawberries, perform Easter egg genetics while learning about Punnett squares, and growing bacteria on agar plates. (This class includes 10 of the 12 labs I teach at FLA.)
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
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Space Exploration
This class has a waitlist. I often have seats open up right before classes start, so contact me if you'd like to add your child to the waitlist.
Grades 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $188
Class Length: Five 2-hour classes (10 hours total)
Days/Time: Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 (Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 are flex days if we need to cancel due to inclement weather or smoke.)
Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
Using NASA curriculum, students will investigate many areas of space exploration. Activities include analyzing what food and clothing is best in space, building a robot arm and end effector, modeling the moon's surface, cleaning water, moon mining, and making simulated regolith. (This class includes 10 of the 12 labs I teach at FLA.)
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
This class has a waitlist. I often have seats open up right before classes start, so contact me if you'd like to add your child to the waitlist.
Grades 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $188
Class Length: Five 2-hour classes (10 hours total)
Days/Time: Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 (Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 are flex days if we need to cancel due to inclement weather or smoke.)
Time: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
Using NASA curriculum, students will investigate many areas of space exploration. Activities include analyzing what food and clothing is best in space, building a robot arm and end effector, modeling the moon's surface, cleaning water, moon mining, and making simulated regolith. (This class includes 10 of the 12 labs I teach at FLA.)
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
Electricity and Mini-Robots
Grades 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $206
Class Length: Five 2-hour classes (10 hours total)
Days/Time: Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 (Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 are flex days if we need to cancel due to inclement weather or smoke.)
Time: 1:45-3:45 p.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
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. This is the same class that was offered the 2021/2022 school year.
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
Grades 4-8 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $206
Class Length: Five 2-hour classes (10 hours total)
Days/Time: Mondays, Sept. 12, 19, 26, Oct. 3, 10 (Oct. 17, 24, 31, Nov. 7 are flex days if we need to cancel due to inclement weather or smoke.)
Time: 1:45-3:45 p.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that we might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up on one of our flex days.
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. This is the same class that was offered the 2021/2022 school year.
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
Dissection Labs - I will post spring dissections in early December. Feel free to email me and I'll put you on the interest list.
Grades 4-12 (I will accept younger students if a parent attends with them.)
One 2-hour session
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that I might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up another day. I will refund the fee if you can't make it to the makeup class.
Students will dive into the unexpected contents of a frog's stomach, marvel at the beauty of the tapetum lucidum in a cow's eye, feel a crayfish's stomach "teeth", learn about their own body systems by dissecting a rat or a fetal pig, and much more. Super gross, but super fun and interesting! In the dissection lab, students will explore the internal and external structures of specimens (fetal pig, rat, frog/earthworm, crayfish/cow eye).
Students will have their own specimens to dissect along with their own set of dissection tools to use and may label diagrams to reinforce what they have observed during the dissection. Dissection classes are for grades 4 and up, however, 3rd graders will be admitted to class by special permission. Students must be mature, willing and able to follow detailed instructions and focus for 2 hours, and have excellent fine motor skills (they will be using a very sharp scalpel and scissors). Parents of younger students are welcome to attend the class and assist their child.
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com. Registration is open until the day before the class if there is space and spare specimens.
Class Info:
Grades 4-12 (I will accept younger students if a parent attends with them.)
One 2-hour session
Location: Rescue - outdoor - Outdoor classes require much more flexibility than indoor classes. We will have to work around the weather and possibly smoky days. Please understand that I might need to cancel a class on the morning of class and make it up another day. I will refund the fee if you can't make it to the makeup class.
Students will dive into the unexpected contents of a frog's stomach, marvel at the beauty of the tapetum lucidum in a cow's eye, feel a crayfish's stomach "teeth", learn about their own body systems by dissecting a rat or a fetal pig, and much more. Super gross, but super fun and interesting! In the dissection lab, students will explore the internal and external structures of specimens (fetal pig, rat, frog/earthworm, crayfish/cow eye).
Students will have their own specimens to dissect along with their own set of dissection tools to use and may label diagrams to reinforce what they have observed during the dissection. Dissection classes are for grades 4 and up, however, 3rd graders will be admitted to class by special permission. Students must be mature, willing and able to follow detailed instructions and focus for 2 hours, and have excellent fine motor skills (they will be using a very sharp scalpel and scissors). Parents of younger students are welcome to attend the class and assist their child.
For questions or to register, call Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com. Registration is open until the day before the class if there is space and spare specimens.
Class Info:
- Location: Outdoor class at my home in Rescue.
- If class size minimum isn't met (6 student minimum), class may be cancelled.
- When class is confirmed, a 3-week non-refundable advanced payment is required for all classes since I have to order specimens well in advance. If your child is unable to attend and I am able to fill the spot with another student, I will refund your payment.
- If I do not have a voucher/PO when it is time for me to order specimens, I require payment via check/cash/Venmo. I will refund your private payment when I receive your voucher/PO.
- 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 voucher/PO, look for "Lisa Hindmarsh" or "Hands-On Science" in your charter school's ordering system.
- If your child is taking multiple dissection classes, please order just one PO from your charter school.
Fall 2022 Dissection Schedule:
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Microscopy - Full 10/9/22
Grade level: 4-12 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $36
Class Length: One 2-hour class (2 hours total)
Days/Time: Friday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor class
Explore the exciting hidden microscopic world with a microbiologist! In this class, students will explore the wonders of pond water (diatoms/algae/protozoa and various other tiny creatures) and stain/examine their cheek cells and onion cells. Students will also learn the parts/functions of a microscope, how to properly use a microscope without damaging lenses and slides, and how to prepare a wet mount. 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.
For questions or to register, call/text Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
Grade level: 4-12 (mature 3rd graders welcome)
Class Fee: $36
Class Length: One 2-hour class (2 hours total)
Days/Time: Friday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Location: Rescue - outdoor class
Explore the exciting hidden microscopic world with a microbiologist! In this class, students will explore the wonders of pond water (diatoms/algae/protozoa and various other tiny creatures) and stain/examine their cheek cells and onion cells. Students will also learn the parts/functions of a microscope, how to properly use a microscope without damaging lenses and slides, and how to prepare a wet mount. 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.
For questions or to register, call/text Lisa at 530-313-3789 or email your child's name, grade, charter school name, and your phone number to lisahandsonscience@gmail.com.
