We are excited to be offering Science Matter Classes for the 2024-2025 Academic Year!
Classes will be held Thursdays from 2:35-3:35
Each club requires a minimum of 8 students and will be maxed at 18 students
Science Matters Class Offerings for the 2024-25 School Year
Science Sampler: Experience a sampling of different science themes each week! Become an inventor and build your own circuit to send messages in Morse Code, become a geologist and go gemstone mining, and become a chemist as you create oozy glowing slime and other crazy chemistry concoctions!
Slime Time: Calling all slimeologists! Prepare to get elbow deep in gooey fun as we enter the world of polymer chemistry and make different slime creations each week. You’ll make amazing color changing slime, textured slime with growing orbs, and chalkboard slime that you can draw on!
Magical Mixtures: Join us as we explore the science behind the magic! Reveal a rainbow of colors during our acid and base investigation, mix up an exothermic reaction to create a “matter monster”, conduct experiments on mystery powders, and uncover the secrets behind disappearing crystals and magic sand. These fun-filled experiments will amaze you and your friends!
Invention Lab: Calling all inventors! If you like to tinker with things, then do we have a club for you. Make a metal detector to identify conductors and insulators, build a circuit with a switch for your own mini shiner, construct a cool catapult, mix up your own ink and create art with a quill pen.
Blinded by the Light: LIGHT! It bends, it bounces, it scatters! Explore the science behind color and light in this exciting hands-on exploration of the science that illuminates our world. Make a rockin’ rainbow tube, create a light maze, experiment with UV detectors, and make a luminescent goo tube.
Earth’s Mysteries: Join us as we learn more about this planet we call home. Explore the relationship between predator and prey, make discoveries about dinosaurs that once roamed the earth, use the power of the sun to make tasty treats, and explore hidden treasures. There is so much to learn about our fascinating world!
Dates:
Thursdays 2:35-3:35
Fall Classes:
Science Sampler: Sep 12, 19, 26 | Oct 3
Slime Time: Oct 10, 24 | Nov 7, 14
Magical Mixtures: Nov 21 | Dec 5, 12, 19
Spring Classes:
Invention Lab: Jan 16, 23, 30 | Feb 6, 13
Blinded by the Light: Feb 27 | Mar 6, 13, 27 | April 3
Earth’s Mysteries: April 17, 24 | May 1, 8
Room: Art Room
Cost:
$99 for any one classes
$260 All Three Fall Classes (Science Sampler, Slime Time, Magical Mixtures)
$260 All Three Spring Classes (Invention Lab, Blinded by the Light, Earth’s Mysteries:)
$499 All Six Classes
Registration: Please use the form below.
Refund policy: Any participant may receive a full refund, minus processing fees, until after the second class is completed. After the second class there will be no refunds granted, or partial credits given, for any reason. This policy also applies to full semester sign up. The second class is defined as the second class of Fall Semester.
VA PTSA Enrichment Waiver and General Guidelines:
1. Photo Release: By enrolling your student in PTSA sponsored enrichment programs you are granting permission to the PTSA and/or the organization(s) providing the program(s) to take photographs of you and your family in connection with the event(s) in which you’ve enrolled. You are also authorizing the above mentioned parties, their assigns and transferees to copyright, use and publish the same in print and/or electronically.
2. There is no teacher supervision before or after school for these students. Parents/guardians are required to sign in/out of the program class each day. Parents/guardians may not drop off/pick up their children in front of the school. Failure to follow this rule will result in your child/children being withdrawn from the program WITHOUT REFUND OF ANY KIND.
3. If your child attends SAE please inform us in writing so we may coordinate with them. Signing in with SAE fulfills the above requirements.
4. At 8:40 AM children will be released from morning programs and should walk to the appropriate line up area. For afternoon programs, parents/guardians must sign their child/children out.
