Explore concepts of force and motion.
"Get ready . . . there's a big crash coming! I know this voice. It’s coming from four-year-old James, and it's the voice of an early engineering explorer about to attempt something slightly risky and, most likely, destructive. "Come on, James, DO it!" commands Nora, giggling with excitement and anticipation. "Ready . . .? " […]
"Look at my foil people!" six-year-old Mariah exclaims as she happily scrunches sheets of aluminum foil into a foil family with a giant dad, a mid-sized mom, and a tiny child. "That's cool! says five-year-old Ali. "How'd you do that?" "It's so easy!" Mariah declares, her eyes sparkling. "Let me show you." Children are natural-born […]
”If the squirrel comes down from the tree this way, we can trap him under here!" exclaims six-year-old Elliott. The playground equipment sits empty as Elliott, Harper, and their fellow "squirrel trappers" gather at the base of a towering oak tree in our neighborhood park. The children have long been captivated by this venerable old […]
It all began with a concert ticket. More specifically, a ticket to a concert on the Ben Folds Paper Airplane Request Tour 2024. During these concerts, Ben Folds—an Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer—encourages fans in the audience to send their song requests to the stage via paper airplanes. To ensure that the planes carrying my song requests would […]
“If you wiggle your hands like this, you can make lots and lots of bubbles!" exclaims Hudson. "Watch!” Piper and Hudson are elbow deep in a tub of water, splashing about happily as they investigate cause and effect in a moment of playful learning. Science begins with curiosity, which leads to discovery and exploration. Learning science […]
In this lesson, the children will observe different HEXBUGS to predict how they might move through a block maze.
In this lesson, children will work together to cross the flooding river as it grows wider and wider.
In this lesson, children will design and build models of treehouses.
In this lesson children will experiment with a simple lever setup to see if they can lift a heavy object off of the floor with just one finger.
In this lesson, children will use a variety of open-ended materials to create engineering designs of houses and then construct and test their designs.