| Fall
- Physics of Color and Light |
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Pre-K
Under
the Rainbow
Explore visual differences in shape, color and design through
projects and experiments. What patterns can you make? Can
you make a square bubble? Can you weave a web like a spider?
Can you mix a green, like grass, or the purple of a sunset?
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Grades
K-1
Optrix
Tickle your vision with "Kool Aid" chromatography.
Prepare and compare your skin print patterns. How many colors
do you find in bubbles? Take a look at animal eyes to see
how they compare to yours. Play with the world of color and
light.
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Grades
2-3
Illusions
Can you believe what you see? Your eyes CAN be fooled. Make
your own pattern changing spinning top. Learn how to make
straight lines curve without bending them. Turn mirrors, colors,
paper and string into magic tricks from science experiments.
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Grades
4-6
Kaleidoscope
Perception deceptions! Explore zippy zoetropes and whirligigs.
Play with anamorphic drawings, mirrors and magnifications.
Tinker with tessellations and construct your own kaleidoscope.
All this and the great paper clip caper, too!
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| Winter
- Architecture and Engineering |
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Pre-K
Mother Goose Construction Company
From The Three Little Pigs, London Bridge and Billy Goat's
Gruff, our youngest scientists will take a scientific look
at children's literature. Why do Jack and Jill roll down the
hill instead of up? Which building techniques make the strongest
London Bridge?
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Grades
K-1
Dive
Into Dimensions
Seek new dimensions with finger traps and rapper snappers.
Change circles to cylinders, squares to cubes and triangles
to tetrahedrons. Catch a bull by the horn and race a snail
down a ramp. Building the strongest bridge and the tallest
tower will stretch your imagination.
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Grades
2-3
Towers & Tales
Your adventures will take you across a bridge, down a river
in a boat and into the land of the pyramids. Make a wheel
decoder to send and receive secret messages. Build and use
an abacus. Untangle the mysteries of scytales and Egyptian
hieroglyphics.
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Grades
4-6
Behind
the Magic
Tickle your brain with teasers, puzzles, tricks and games.
Explore topology, geodesics, balance and three-dimensional
designs. Your friends will think that some of these activities
are magic but you will unlock the science secrets.
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| Spring
- Physics of Sound and Flight |
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Pre-K
Here's
to Ears
Snap, clap, click and stomp to this session about the natural
rhythms and patterns in sound. Make a mystery sound game and
a "quacker." Make and use a variety of multi-cultural
musical instruments while exploring sounds using different
materials.
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Grades
K-1
Buzzers and Boomerangs
Toot tunes on test tubes. Shake, rattle and roll to the beat
of a hum-buzzer whizzer. Make and sail straw jets, boomerangs
and gliders. Make a mystery sound game. Play with waves and
rhythms to explore concepts of vibration.
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Grades
2-3
Air-O-Dynamics
What makes a whistle, whistle? Make your own to find out.
Produce sound effects with a thunder clapper. Construct and
fly helicopters, parachutes and kites. Activities both indoors
and out will inspire high flying inquisitiveness.
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Grades
4-6
Oscillations
What's got rhythm? Can you see sound? Just how will a pendulum
create the swinging-est art? Can body rhythms change the color
of your biodot? Buzz the hummer. Get a lift with paper airplanes
and bright kites! Grab science on a spring breeze.
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