Educational Enhancement Astronomy A survey course covering the wonders of the universe, from making their own meteorite craters to how black holes are formed, featuring a student intensive Astronomy Fair. Geology Beyond building a volcano, this course takes students on a tour of the earth and what makes it dynamic, including constructing and analyzing fault models and identifying minerals just like real geologists. Meteorology Students build weather stations, predict weather based on factual evidence they gather, keep weather journals, and investigate the properties of air. Experiment, manipulate, and investigate them until the students have internalized their understanding of the properties. Students apply their understanding to the study of mixtures, solutions, chemical changes, bases, acids, and more.
Students combine simple machines to build a unique compound machine of their own design.
These machines will be displayed at the school site. This hands-on tour of physics explores Aerodynamics, Optics and Mechanics. Students test airplane wings, bend light through a series of lenses and compare work done with and without machine help. Unless you understand the rules that govern it. Students discover how light behaves and how to change its natural behavior using lenses in this active science class.