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mtandg

Posted on: January 10th, 2006, 2:22am

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Due to the response of the offer for the first class I have asked and set up a second set of classes from Explora! This will noted as Session B, those that are already signed up for the first one should not switch or this will mess up the numbers we need to have the lowest price per student! Please contact me and do not contact the museum first or we will end up with two lists and that gets everyone confused (this happened with Session A). The cost is the same $49 per student, which works out to $3.50 per class, you must sign up for the entire 14 weeks to get the slot. We need a minimum of 16 students to have the class run or we will each have to pay more money because they have a set fee per class. Classes will have the same syllabus as noted below but class times will run Mondays from 1-2PM so they will start on the 23rd of January! We already have 4 students signed up for this class and I will make every effort to fill this but it is really up to you all to pass the word around! Please contact me to sign up and forward this to anyone interested!!==Tabitha Orr, 792-4110, email mtandg@yahoo.com

Explora Home School Custom Explorations Series (grades 2-4)
Contact: Tabitha 792-4110

1.24.06 Be a Rock Star: This isn’t about music; it’s about geology! Students use microscopes and loupes to discover the main types of rocks, and perform a series of tests to unearth a mystery mineral.

1.31.06 Acids and Bases: We use acids and bases every day. What’s the difference? Students prepare an acid-base indicator and compare relative strengths of some common acids and bases.

2.07.06 Discovering Trianges, II: In this exploration students discover the different kinds of triangles and their importance. We also use triangles to build three-dimensional objects and begin to explore the perimeters and areas of these objects.

2.14.06 Shocking Discoveries: Shock your students into learning with a simple touch of the Van de Graaff electricity generator! Energize their understanding of static electricity with this hair-raising class full of empowering experiments.

2.21.06 Exciting Electricity: Use batteries and wires to make bulbs light up, and explore open and closed circuits. Then, make a gigantic complete circuit you won’t forget!

2.28.06 May the Force be with You: They repulse, they attract! Students experiment with pairs of magnets to find magnetic objects, create their own magnets, learn about magnets’ properties and behaviors, and find the earth’s North Pole.

3.07.06 Kaleidoscope-Crazed: Explore the amazing properties of mirrors, lenses and light and discover all the wonderful images and colorful patterns you get when angles and symmetry come into play. Students design and build their own unique kaleidoscopes.

3.14.06 Will it Sink, or Will it Float?: Density is the property of matter that determines whether objects float or sink. Students compare the densities of salt solutions, and make a submarine that both sinks and floats.

3.21.06 Good Vibrations: Catch a wave…a sound wave, that is! Students experiment with vibrations to learn how sound is produced and how it acquires its specific qualities. Find out how sound travels through various materials and how to tell whether it is coming or going.

3.28.06 No class due to Explora Spring Break Camp/APS Spring Recess

4.04.06 Pigments of Your Imagination: Do artists need to understand chemistry? Explore the art/science connection by using pigments to make your own paints. Then use your handmade paints to create an original work of art.

4.11.06 Power Plant: How does a plant eat? In this exploration students dissect, observe and simulate plants in order to explore the methods in which plants produce their own power. From the roots up, we’ll investigate the complete plant system.

4.18.06 Go With the Flow: What is Bernoull’s Principle? Spray water, levitate a ball, and make an egg jump from one container to another to find out why airplanes fly and birds soar. The science of fluid dynamics is a great way to engage your students’ natural curiosities and connect to the world around them.

4.25.06 Chance or Lucky Guess?: By flipping coins, rolling dice, picking marbles from a jar and collecting data, students generate data and analyze it in order to develop a hypothesis on the probability of a specific outcome for both dependent and independent events.

5.02.06 Crazy about Chromatography: Inside an ordinary black marker is a rainbow of color waiting to escape! Students investigate how paper chromatography is used to separate the components of mixtures, and test colored markers, food coloring, and candy to see what unexpected colors each contains.

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