Liftoff: Engineering Rockets and Rovers Ages: Incoming 1st and 2nd graders Dates: July 13-17th, 2020 Times: 9am-12 pm Spaces: Limited to 16 participants Instructor: Heidi Ganser has taught 1st and 2nd grade in the Oak Bluffs school for 24 years and loves teaching STEAM to young children! Description: Join us while we learn about aerospace engineering and work to design and build model rockets and rovers that you will launch with a destination your choice in outer space, just waiting to be explored. While you work throughout the week you will also be learning about the International Space Station, the Jet Propulsion Lab, and some of the real-life work NASA scientists and engineers are doing in the world and beyond! |
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The Science of Rainbows and Bubbles
Ages: Incoming 1st and 2nd graders Dates: July 27-31st, 2020 Times: 9am-12pm Spaces: Limited to 16 participants Instructor: Heidi Ganser has taught 1st and 2nd grade in the Oak Bluffs school for 24 years and loves teaching STEAM to young children! Description: Discover the science and magic behind ROYBIV, the only visible light waves. Learn about what makes a rainbow and how you can make your own rainbows! Come and learn about the engineering and design process while exploring how bubbles behave! Investigate the properties of different materials as you engineer all kinds of bubble wands. The week will wrap up with a Bubble Bonanza Showcase where you will demonstrate your creations! |
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Map That! Ages: Incoming 3rd and 4th graders Dates: July 13-17th, 2020 Times: 9am-12 pm Spaces: Limited to 16 participants Instructor: Anna Cotton is an Earth Science and Biology teacher at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. She has taught 5th-8th grade math and science and started her career in elementary school. After disliking math and science in elementary and high school she was a geology major in college because she got to go outside, explore and learn about the Earth. She loves getting outside on the Island and looking at cool rocks and landforms. Description: Participants will explore and create maps combining art and the natural landscape of Martha’s Vineyard. Starting with two-dimensional maps we will explore places and how to visualize them including treasure hunts, treasure maps and computer mapping including looking at what satellites see. Moving to three-dimensional maps we will use a variety of materials and all of our senses to make 2-D and 3-D topographic maps with wood and clay. Each day will have times for getting outside to explore, reading maps and making maps with different mediums. |
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Microscopic
Explorations
Ages: Incoming 3rd and 4th graders
Dates: July 27-31st, 2020
Times: 9am-12pm
Spaces: Limited to 16 participants
Instructor: Anna Cotton is an Earth Science and Biology teacher at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. She has taught 5th-8th grade math and science and started her career in elementary school. After disliking math and science in elementary and high school she was a geology major in college because she got to go outside, explore and learn about the Earth. She loves getting outside on the Island and looking at cool rocks and landforms.
Description:
Participants will explore the world up close through the microscope. Thinking with their eyes participants will spend each day exploring the microscope and creating models of what they see in a variety of mediums. Each day will start with exploring, then a focus area (pond life, small creatures, kitchen powders, fingerprints, natural and human made materials) and then model building representing what we see. Participants will be encouraged to look at and bring in materials from their homes and from explorations during activities outside to compare what we see normally and under the microscope.
Description:
Participants will explore the world up close through the microscope. Thinking with their eyes participants will spend each day exploring the microscope and creating models of what they see in a variety of mediums. Each day will start with exploring, then a focus area (pond life, small creatures, kitchen powders, fingerprints, natural and human made materials) and then model building representing what we see. Participants will be encouraged to look at and bring in materials from their homes and from explorations during activities outside to compare what we see normally and under the microscope.
Model Rocketry
Ages: Incoming 4th-8th graders
Dates: July 13-17th, 2020
Slots: Limited to 14 participants
Instructor:
Rebecca Solway has been an elementary school teacher at the West Tisbury School for the past 16 years, and recently started teaching Engineering & Design to 1st-8th graders. She previously shared her love of nature with kids and adults as an educator at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Rebecca loves helping kids bring their ideas to life with STEAM activities!
Description:
Design and customize your own water and solid-fuel powered model rockets! We'll explore principles of flight, learn how model rocket engines work, measure altitude, and more. Interested campers may also customize nose cone and fin designs to produce with the 3D printer.
Ages: Incoming 4th-8th graders
Dates: July 13-17th, 2020
Slots: Limited to 14 participants
Instructor:
Rebecca Solway has been an elementary school teacher at the West Tisbury School for the past 16 years, and recently started teaching Engineering & Design to 1st-8th graders. She previously shared her love of nature with kids and adults as an educator at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Rebecca loves helping kids bring their ideas to life with STEAM activities!
Description:
Design and customize your own water and solid-fuel powered model rockets! We'll explore principles of flight, learn how model rocket engines work, measure altitude, and more. Interested campers may also customize nose cone and fin designs to produce with the 3D printer.
The Fantastical Fair!
Ages: Incoming 4th-8th graders
Dates: July 27-31st, 2020
Slots: Limited to 14 participants
Instructor:
Rebecca Solway has been an elementary school teacher at the West Tisbury School for 16 years, and recently started teaching Engineering & Design to 1st-8th graders. She previously shared her love of nature with kids and adults as an educator at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Rebecca loves helping kids bring their ideas to life with STEAM activities!
Description:
Explore the magic and engineering of the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair! We'll build prototypes of fair rides, create lights and sounds with electrical circuits, and guide campers as they design their own Ag Fair project entries to submit. Sign up early so we can make sure we have the materials you'll need for your own fair project.
Ages: Incoming 4th-8th graders
Dates: July 27-31st, 2020
Slots: Limited to 14 participants
Instructor:
Rebecca Solway has been an elementary school teacher at the West Tisbury School for 16 years, and recently started teaching Engineering & Design to 1st-8th graders. She previously shared her love of nature with kids and adults as an educator at Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. Rebecca loves helping kids bring their ideas to life with STEAM activities!
Description:
Explore the magic and engineering of the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Fair! We'll build prototypes of fair rides, create lights and sounds with electrical circuits, and guide campers as they design their own Ag Fair project entries to submit. Sign up early so we can make sure we have the materials you'll need for your own fair project.