Prairie Crossing Charter School, 1531 Jones Point Road

9:20 - 12:00
Tuition (Morning Only): $365

9:20 - 3:00
Tuition (Full Day): $570

Click HERE for general program details.

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Course Descriptions:

Australian Outback Explorers: Embark on a walkabout through a continent replete with diverse ecosystems, from desert to rainforest. Discover animals unique to Australia, such as the kangaroo, wallaby, and wallaroo. Investi- gate, dramatize, and create through imagina- tive, interdisciplinary activities. Grades PreK-K

Rocket Cars, Roller Coasters, and Radical Flying Machines! Build a rocket car from a soda bottle, then race it in a class tournament. Create, construct, and test your own roller coaster track. Discover some of the coolest paper airplanes and gliders on the planet! Grades 3-8

Harry Potter-Ology: Enter a wizarding world. Be sorted into a house, create your own wand, formulate spells, and play quiddich. Try butter- beer and wizard candy, and participate in our End of Term Feast! Grades 3-8

Lego WeDo Robotics: Build robots, such as an alligator, with Legos, motors, gears, and sensors. Program your robots using a computer. ($10 lab fee) Grades 1-4

Art Studio: Create multi-dimensional master- pieces of mixed media, methods, and muses, such as collage, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, pastels, and watercolor. Enjoy seeing the results of your own imagination and original ideas!
Grades 1-8

Fabric Fusion Art Quilts: Explore a new art medium! Create art quilts using fusible inter- facing to glue a collage in place and, if you like, add details with embroidery. Discover the history of quilting and how this medium reflects changes in women's place in society. Grades 5-8

Creating Games from Scratch: Learn how to program computer games in Scratch, developed at MIT and used to create a wide variety of games, from simple to complex. Grades 3-8

Advanced Scratch: Extend your knowledge of programming in Scratch. Advance your skills and create more sophisticated games. Grades 5-8

Theater Club: Experience the exhilarating world of live theater! Develop characters as you play theater games and rehearse skits, culminating in a performance for family and friends on the last day. Grades 1-8

Strange Brews: Create mystery solutions with curious chemical properties in a slightly weird, fingers-on science lab. Grades 1-2

Chemistry: It's a Gas! What is chemistry? Explore this question and investigate things that go pop, fizz, and swoosh! ($10 lab fee) Grades 3-6

Invention Lab: Reconfigure great gadgets, design innovative thingamabobs, and develop futuristic gizmos. Bring your inventions from design to patent, model to market. Follow the path of great inventors! Grades 1-4

Electronics Lab: Explore electronic compo- nents and learn basic circuitry while con- structing various projects, from sirens to dice to robots! Solder, decipher technical instruc- tions, assemble 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

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Additional Worlds of Wisdom and Wonder Locations for Summer 2013:

Burr Ridge | Chicago - Lakeview East | Chicago - Lakeview West | Chicago - Lincoln Park

Chicago - Portage Park | Elgin | Elmhurst | Glenview | Naperville - North | Naperville - South | Oak Forest | Skokie