SCIENCE 411 - Spring 2010

SPRING BREAK CAMP: FINDING PHYSICS!      

Newton’s Laws of Motion are here! Power, Power & more power! Build our wireless remote controlled Grand Prix racer - a great way to introduce children to the exciting world of physics & design engineering!! It’s widgets & wheels! Imaginations gone wild!  With propulsion & physics, you can do it all!   

Club Sport San Ramon
April 5th to April 8th
1:00 to 4:00 pm
$195 and non members $210

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AFTER SCHOOL LABS

TOPICS

SPLIT – SPIT -  SPLAT - STRIPES!: What happened when the continents split? Plate tectonics! What else could split? Is this metamorphosis? Pull DNA from fruit! Who spits? Check out dinosaur differences and behavior! Where are the living dinosaur descendents? Are these dragons?  Splat is super science & messy fun!

DISCOVERING MARINE ECOSYSTEMS!: Examine the liquid world – 90 % unknown! See a variety of sea life! Shark surveillance for those fascinated with sleek streamlined creatures! It’s turtle time for the wanderers! Try it invertebrate investigations! Test the pulling power of amazing & awesome cephalopods!

ZING! MISSING MYSTERIES!: Only a few weeks left before summer vacation! These “missing” lab are filled with super science for an expialidocious experience!

SCIENCE MANIA!: Just can’t quit yet? Here is a supercalifragilistic set of fun labs just for those who truly love science! Participate just before summer vacation and keep on in science!

Parents, grandparents and children thanks for your feedback and suggestions. Keep them coming!! Encourage and keep the children investigating & experimenting all summer and we will see them in the Fall!

SUMMER CAMPS

FUN FACTS!!!
8-13 projects a week   
Every child makes & takes home each project!!  
Total cost approximately $9/hr !!
Discounts available!!

Grades K-5th: Students today are looking for challenges! Spectrum of Science is helping elementary age children develop a competitive edge while giving them fun based science designed to instill confidence in science & to turn learning into play! Our interdisciplinary curriculum incorporates more than just “science”. Lessons are designed to stimulate youngsters to express their own originality & to motivate them to see their world in a totally new way! Projects & activities are creative, entertaining & imaginative & create passion while expanding their minds!

PASSPORT TO SCIENCE: Travel thru the amazing world of science! So much to discover & so little time!  Here is a flurry of non stop science without boundaries. Labs include happening experiments & a continental journey! Compare Pangea with today! Snap a circuit! Encounter a babaroosa & a lilly walker! Foray deeper into fluid concoctions & effervescent  chemistry! General science labs include Biology, Chemistry, Physics & more! Complete your science exploration with a stamped passport!   

PHYSICS AND FUN!: Join in this mish mash of destruct & reconstruct! ! Your imagination, your design, your project! Will it become a robot or a space explorer? Make it move or light up! Observe it, smash it & build a “What’s It”! This is elementary physics in action! Using recycled materials each child will learn principles of simple machines, structural details, electrical circuits & more & will create their own unique projects. Take it apart! Put it together – mighty or mini! Experiment, test & try! Science has never been so unknown & so much fun!  

SEA & SPACE SCIENCE CAPERS!: The greatest adventure is what lies ahead! This camp covers marine & space science from the depths of Earth to outer regions of space! Probe the unknown from creeps of the deep to aliens! Find undersea chimneys on Earth & view pillars in a nebula seen by Hubble! Design your own mission & vehicle with K’nex! Is it to the sea floor or will its destination be mighty Mars? Today’s children are tomorrow’s scientists & this is a great beginning!

SCIENCE RETURNS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES:  This camp features a return of projects done in the 2009-2010 after school program. Included are such labs as the boney skeletal frame, smelly connections & the great brain.  Spin & spiral around the solar system! See the celestial universe! Who has orange teeth? Going green & glowing science labs! Check out dinosaur differences and behavior! Who spits? Splat is super science & messy fun! Shark surveillance for those fascinated with sleek streamlined creatures! Test the pulling power of amazing & awesome cephalopods! This will be an expialidocious experience!

CASTRO VALLEY: SCIENCE RETURNS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES:  This camp features a return of projects done in the 2009-2010 after school program. Included are such labs as the boney skeletal frame, smelly connections & the great brain.  Spin & spiral around the solar system! See the celestial universe! Who has orange teeth? Going green & glowing chemistry labs! Bubbles, fizzing, gooey & more to be discovered!! Check out dinosaur differences and behavior! Who spits? Splat is super science & messy fun! Shark surveillance for those fascinated with sleek streamlined creatures! Test the pulling power of amazing & awesome cephalopods! This will be an expialidocious experience! For complete description visits our website at www.spectrumofscience.com/index_SummerCamps.htm!! This is a 5 week camp; registration will be accepted on a week by week basis if space allows. Call 925.820.2415 for specifics.

Locations:

Carden West School

Walnut Grove Elementary, Pleasanton CA

Fallon Middle School, Dublin, CA

Livermore Area Park & Recreation Department, Livermore CA

Kids Country, Danville

Independent Elementary, Castro Valley

Custom Camps

More sites are beinging added!

SUMMER SCIENCE FOR CHILDREN 4 & 5 YRS

Small Hands! Lots of Curiosity and Questions?

SPECTRUM OF SCIENCE is here to encourage, challenge & excite your tot!! Spectrum of Science will introduce young learners to science using fun, interactive hands on lessons designed to ignite their imagination and open up the world of science to them! Explore through songs, literature & experiments! Questions  call 820-2415.

SCIENCE DISCOVERY: Little future scientists explore, create & discover while doing what they do best – playing! Exciting, hands on labs open worlds of chemistry, biology, physics & more. Build, test & experiment with “tot approved” science activities! Zoom in & discover what keeps cars on the move. See green galore & try out a mix for this summer color. Take home Spectrum of Science lab book of experiments! 

MY FIRST SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS: Snoopy is my name & Science is my game! Like to mix up stuff? Want to make a volcano erupt? Let’s make something sink and then rise up! Be a super sleuth; question, explore & try it! You will like it!

IT'S REALLY CHEMISTRY: Mix it, sink it, make it fizzle!! Ooh & Goo!! Chemistry for preschool fun! This combination of science and fun will encourage exploration and increase children's thinking potential with hands-on explorations & play!

BIOLOGY, ZOOLOGY & BUGOLOGY: Biology for preschool! Does it wiggle? Does it croak? Does it roar? Explore, investigate & study animals in their natural habitat. Travel to the grasslands & study who, how & why of the animals. Butterflies, spiders, ladybugs and more. Be sure to bring your curiosity and questions!

SIMPLE MACHINES: Physics for preschool! Yes!!! Each young scientist will build a simple lever “thing”, make a wheely, spin an incline plane & understand simple machines. Build, test & explore!! Labs are designed to maintain their curiosity and enthusiasm!

LOCATIONS:

Livermore Area Park & Recration Department

Carden West School, Pleasanton

COOL HAPPENINGS IN SCIENCE

ScienceDaily (Jan. 4, 2010) — NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100104131643.htm

Ever feel “small but WISE,” well meet the new “small but WISE” telescope. On December 14, 2009, a small but mighty telescope was launched into space. WISE has a powerful digital camera and will be able to record in pictures some of the wildest objects in known universe, including asteroids, faint stars, blazing galaxies and giant clouds of dust where planets and stars are born. For more information visit, http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20100106/Note3.asp

New ring?? Astronomers recently found another ring around the planet Saturn — and it’s the biggest one yet. This newly discovered ring stretches about 15 million miles across, which makes a loop big enough to fit a billion Earths inside. It may be even bigger, say the astronomers, and reach 22 million miles across at its diameter. Look for pictures at http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20091111/Note2.asp

LET NO FUTURE SCIENTIST BE LEFT BEHIND!!!

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