After-school science classes offered weekly all school year

The aim of our program is to stimulate students to learn and enjoy science.

Each class students work on a different toy invention project. The invention projects are different each class throughout the school year. Because many students take our classes continually for several years, we also do not repeat activities in subsequent years. However, we may work with various forms of boats, car, parachutes, or other types of toys, because these are popular with the students.

Each hands-on toy project demonstrates a science concept. The toy helps the student relate the concept to the way the toy works. The students have fun while learning and they get to keep the toy at the end of the class to take home.

Through the projects, we learn such science concepts such as friction, air pressure, gravity, kinetic energy. Sometimes we review and important concept to help students remember them.

Some of the projects for this school year for grades K-3 will be

Motion Various Activities

• Collision Car
  This car is made to bump into other cars. What happens when it crashes into something? Why does it bounce back?
• Wiggly Worm
  Make a cute worm that likes to wiggle when it moves. Can you think of a way to wiggle it more?
• Space Craft #1
  Build this space craft so it could land softly on the moon. Let’s add something to make it lower slowly to the ground. It will be fun even landing it on earth.
  
• Glowing Bracelet
  Depending on your design, this could be a bracelet or a handcuff. But either one will glow in the dark.
• Propeller Cup
  How can we create wind? Is there some kind of force needed to make it work?
• Fast Craft
  This craft is a fast moving boat. How can you power a boat to move it rapidly on water? Let’s see how fast you can make it go.

AND MANY MORE

The program available for grades 4-6 will be

Robots

Robots We have two fun robots for this class. One is a solar bullet train and the other a solar system. The bullet train is a model of the famous one in Japan but moving by energy from the sun. It has one engine and two cars. The solar system uses robot technology to show how planets move in relation to the sun. Building this one will advance your knowledge when you study the sun and planets. This robot class teaches you how to look at diagrams and follow directions. These are engineered robots, not simple toys.

At some schools, 3rd grade students can choose the K-3 or the robot class.