Children's Natural History Museum half day summer classes June 23-July 2021
Price: $25.00 for 2 hours or $30 if you stay up to 1 hour for lunch
(total of 3 hours)(add on payment options) Bring water, snack and lunch
(if having lunch after class). Materials will be provided and
most activities will be in our patio lab. 20 max. 7-11 years old;
materials
leveled to age Instructor: Brandon Stubbs, Geologist
7-11 years old
June 23,
Wednesday 10-12 noon
Water Chemistry in the
Environment
Learn about how water moves
through our environment and the changes it undergoes.
Students will apply their knowledge to char the path of the water
cycle. Explore why bubbles are spherical. Identify what makes water unique as a molecule
and compare what other elements are dissolved in water.
7-11 years old June 30,
Wednesday 10-12 noon
Minerals and Crystal Structure
Minerals come in all sorts of different
shapes, colors, and sizes. Students will learn what exactly
minerals are as well as the structures that make them up.
Handling real minerals, they will describe the differences
between minerals and other crystals and explore the large
diversity of mineral properties. Are all crystals,
minerals?
7-11 years old July 7,Wednesday 10-12 noon
Uncovering Fossils
Spend a day in a paleontologist’s boots. Students will learn
how to excavate and interpret fossils as a window to the
past. By considering the traces of organisms alive today,
students will use fossils to make inferences about the
organisms they once belonged to. See the fossils found in
the Fremont area and explore some of the Ice Age Megafauna.
7-11 years old July 14, Wednesday 10-12 noon
Craters of the Moon
Impact events have left
the moon pockmarked with craters. Using flour, students will
experience and describe the process for themselves.
Additionally, they will apply their knowledge about craters to
make inferences about the moon’s surface.
7-11 years old July 21, Wednesday 10-12 noon
Shaping Landscapes A lake, beach, or mountain might seem
like no big deal, but thousands or millions of years may have
gone into its creation. Students will consider natural
landscapes and the processes that formed them. Examining
sedimentary rocks, they will learn to make inferences about
landscapes long since passed.
7-11 years old July 28,
Wednesday 10-12 noon
Volcanoes Dormant and extinct volcanoes dot the
West Coast. Students will compare the different types of
volcanoes and how they are formed. By studying volcanic rocks,
they will learn to draw conclusions about the volcanoes they
came from.
Summer
of 2021 will see limited classes and a new instructor.
Brandon Stubbs, a graduate of Brown University in Earth
Sciences. Debbie Davidson is min instructor. Students are limited to 20 and much of the class
with be outside in the patio. We will go into the museum
and classroom just for instruction. The museum will not be
open, so students will have the building all to themselves.
Social distanting and all CDC guidelines will be in affect.
All instructors and staff will be vaccinated or have a mask.
We recommend students bring their own water. or more information
on classes.
No refunds one week before, a $5
processing charge per class for all refunds. You
may transfer to another class for no charge if there is room
available. Joyce
Blueford (blueford@msnucleus.org)
