SPRING 2025

Class 1-STEM Bugs and Birds 

Students will learn how to sort plastic bugs and capture rubber worms using a tool that represents a birds beak as you learn the food chain of birds. In class we will identify parts of insects studying model bugs, learn the tensile strength of a spider web through experimenting with designs to hold classroom spiders and how to recognize local birds by hearing and seeing. 

Class 2-STEM Arctic Animals 

Young students will enjoy learning about animals that live extreme and survive the harsh conditions of the Arctic regions. They will explore the Tundra wildlife through hands on learning, such as comparing  human tracks to the tracks of a polar bear, walrus and fox. As they immerse in Arctic learning, students will experiment with extreme cold temperatures and learn how animals adapt and thrive.  The lessons will cover arctic circle maps that teach animal placement in regions, habitats, and animal adaptations.

Each student will take home their Arctic circle model created in class, a collection of life size animal tracks, and a bag of mixed Arctic animals for further exploring and learning at home. 

Class 3- STEM Rainbows and Weather

Young learners will learn how to identify the power of weather during this hands on experiment class.  With weather playing an important role in our lives this class helps answer questions that students often have, such as where do clouds come from, why does the sky change colors, what is wind, and why does it rain.  Some of these questions are answered during our science experiments that students will conduct themselves, like practicing absorption experiments to discover how clouds rain, make a gravity rain cloud, create a cloud vapor and create cloud samples using cotton balls on their very own  watercolor sky painting.  This art piece will offer lessons for using oil pastels and watercolor as students experience the with their captured rain samples from earlier experiments. 

Class 4- STEM Animal Biomes and Habitats- 

During this class young students will learn to identify the 5 different types of animal groups. Students will sort miniature animals into biomes from around the world, learn what animal needs are as they search and find their homes, and changes that some animals make in order to survive. Our STEM activity is learning how to engineer a habitat for a bird and a beaver.  This lesson includes studying a birds nest and learning how different bird species design their nest based on their biomes. This nest experiment will be compared to a beavers lodge as students practice sorting through similar materials each animal uses although building in different biomes. Each student will take home their bird nest creation along with bird identification cards.