Pleasantdale Middle School, 7450 S. Wolf Road
9:20 - 12:00
Tuition: $365

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Course Descriptions:

We're Going to the Zoo! Visit the ape house, reptile house, aviary, and more. Think how you would design a zoo. What animals would you choose? How would you care for them and create comfortable habitats? Explore, ponder, dramatize, and create through hands-on fun and activities with science, literature, math, and art. Grades PreK-K

This Is Your Country! Form a government, establish a treasury, organize a defense system, and forge alliances with neighbors. Design your flag, symbols, and currency. Grades 3-8

Lego Mindstorms Robotics I: Create an auto- nomous robot using motors, gears, and sensors. Program it to complete tasks of increasing complexity, then observe the results. Do your commands direct your robot as you intended? ($10 lab fee) Grades 3-8

Lego Mindstorms Robotics II: Work with other advanced students to strategize solutions for challenging tasks as you employ creative problem solving to construct and program your robots. ($10 lab fee) Grades 5-8

Mrs. Canople's LOL Club: Do you love telling jokes or drawing funny critters? Do you want to improve your improv or get your friends to laugh louder? Fine-tune your craft, and earn "funny money." Shop at the Rubber Chicken store to rent glam props, or make them yourself. Then strut your stuff where it's safe, nurturing and, most of all, fun! Grades 1-8

Electronics Lab: Explore electronic components and learn basic circuitry by constructing various projects, from sirens to dice to robots! Solder, decipher technical instructions, assem- ble circuit boards, and read schematic diagrams. ($60 lab fee) Grades 4-8

Creative Writing: Could posters, magazines, paintings, films, and books inspire you to write stories and poetry? See your work published in our writing magazine. Submit your work to competitions; our students have won many prizes for excellence in writing stories and poems. Grades 1-8

Mysteries and Forensics: Investigate and solve mysteries! Uncover schemes, sleuth for clues, employ forensic techniques, deduce conclusions, and crack cases. Grades 3-8

Math of the Ancient World from a Modern Perspective: Investigate ancient number systems and modern number theory. Construct the Golden Ratio. Examine ancient frescoes and create your own tessellations. Explore fractals in nature and develop your own Koch snowflake or Sierpinski carpet. Grades 3-8

Mathemagicians: Discover secret sequences, play math games, and investigate intriguing puzzles. Create your own number tricks to perplex your peers! Grades 1-2

Art Studio: Create multi-dimensional master- pieces of mixed media, methods, and muses, such as collage, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, pastels, and watercolor. Grades 1-8

Flights of Fantasy and Science: From Icarus to Armstrong, people have been fascinated with flying. Discover the principles of flight and apply them to your own experimental aircraft that you have just constructed. Grades 1-4

Dinosaurs, Fossils, and Digs: What can fossils teach us? Learn how paleontologists dig for fossils through imaginative, hands-on activities. Investigate intriguing dinosaurs, from ankylosaurus to zuniceratops. Grades 1-2

Paleontology: Ponder paleozoological puzzlements! Organize a dig and embark on a simulated expedition to unearth fossils millions of years old. Analyze the fossils of various dinosaurs as well as of other ancient creatures, such as primitive cockroaches, prehistoric giant dragonflies, and trilobites. Grades 3-8

Computer Lab I: Design your own computer game. Use interactive animation and hyper- links, together with slide transitions, effects, and timing. Play your game creation on any computer, anywhere! Grades 3-8

Computer Lab II: Advance your programming skills and design a more sophisticated game. (Prerequisite: Computer Lab I) Grades 4-8

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Additional Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder Locations for Summer 2013:

Chicago - Lakeview East | Chicago - Lakeview West | Chicago - Lincoln Park | Chicago - Portage Park | Elgin

Elmhurst | Glenview | Grayslake/Prairie Crossing | Naperville - North | Naperville - South | Oak Forest | Skokie