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Workshops
Mad Science
Mad Science® is the world’s leading science enrichment provider. Mad Science delivers unique, hands-on science experiences for children that are as entertaining as they are educational. Mad Science is proud to introduce millions of children to a world of discovery while sparking their imagination. Mad Science encourages scientific literacy in children in an age when science is as vital as reading, writing and arithmetic. To learn more about Mad Science, please visit their website here
Mad Science's Preschool Science Enrichment Program brings science to the youngest children starting as early as three years old. The Workshops run for eight weeks, starting Tuesday, October 7, with each class lasting 45 minutes, running 10am to 10:45am. The series of eight classes cost $110 per child and is intended for children age's three to six. To sign-up your child, please use the regular class sign up form, found here
A description of all eight days of class
Color Lab
This workshop will introduce preschoolers to the exciting world of color. Demonstrations will be conducted to introduce students to the primary colors as well as color mixing.
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Energy and Motion
Children explore the concept of energy and how energy gets things moving in this workshop that uses toys to help explain simple energy ideas. They will take home toys called "Boinks" that will help them remember how energy and motion are related.
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Water Works
Water is more complicated than it looks and through this exciting workshop children will learn all about the different properties of water. They will experiment with floating, sinking, absorption and so much more.
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Listen Closely
This workshop will introduce students to the science behind the sounds all around them. Children will experiment with a wave motion model and a twirling tube to help them understand that sound travels in waves and can be heard in a variety pitches.
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Weather Wonders
Through this interactive class preschoolers will help create a cloud in a bottle and will make in rain inside. They will also learn all about the water cycle and weather patterns and will design their very own windsock to take home.
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Let Look Closely
Children will discover a world that they might not have realized was there through the use of mirrors, microscopes and magnifying glasses.
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Keep in Touch
Children will learn how they understand the world with their sense of touch and will also emphasize that some objects are safe to touch while others are not. They will also experiment with an interesting and innovative material to model their very own creation.
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Adventure in Air
Preschoolers will learn that even though air is invisible it is all around them all the time. They will also learn that air has the power to both move items and to slow them down.
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