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Please be patient as we update our 2011-2012 Fall after school schedule
Engineering and Robotics
PeeWee Engineers
Class Code: PWER
Grades K-2
This beginner class exposes K-2 students to engineering, robotics and computing using the LEGO WeDo platform and K'Nex Building System. Students develop standards based skills by building and programming smart robots and structures in a step by step learning process. The user friendly software and hands-on activities provides students with the needed tools to put their creativity into practice. Students use real working motors and sensors, and graphic based programming to bring their robotic creations to life.
Paleontology
PeeWee Paleontologists
Grades K-2
Class Code: PWPT1
This hands-on prehistoric adventure uses visual materials, fossil replicas, fossils and scale models, and dino-digs to show the characteristics distinguishing dinosaurs, their world and what we know about them. K-2 students will explore dinosaur paleontology and take virtual field trips across prehistoric lands long forgotten in search of ancient fossils. Like Museum paleontologists, students make their way into their very own paleontology laboratory as they attempt to reconstruct the lives of dinosaurs based on skeletal and environmental clues. Students will learn what information can be learned from fossil evidence, and also the limitations of what fossils can tell us about these extinct animals. Utilizing Webosaurs and dino-digs, and other standards based activities; students will demonstrate their understanding of time periods, fossilization and more...
ASTRONOMY
PeeWee Astronauts
Grades K-2
Class Code: PWA1
In this fun and interactive class, K-2 students will explore astronomy and the solar system! Using hands-on activities and experiments, your children will be fascinated from beginning to end as they explore NASA’s latest missions to include the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission and more…Using NASA engineering models and scientific data students will take a virtual field trip to the moon. Like astronauts, students will come face-to-face with the challenges and excitement of launching from Earth’s surface and journeying through space to land on the moon. The PeeWee Astronaut course includes current and active, hands-on activities, NASA webinars, readings, take home worksheets, charts, interactive websites, full-color high resolution graphic activities, and more to provide a multisensory approach to learning about space and becoming an astronaut.
Mad Science
Grades K-2
Class Code: CHM2
From the introduction of periodic tables to making solutions that glow. Your young scientist will love the mad science class. Students study live microorganisms,
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