Middleton Elementary School, 8300 St. Louis Avenue
9:20 - 12:00
Tuition: $365

*Grades PreK-5

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 imagi- native, interdisciplinary activities. Grades PreK-K

Magnets, Movement, and Density: How does a magnet work? Does weight affect how fast an object rolls? Why does an object sink or float? Hypothesize, predict, and experiment in this hands-on science lab. Grades PreK-K

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

Lego Mindstorms Robotics I: Create an autonomous 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 3-5

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

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 3-5

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 1-5

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 1-5

Creative Writing: Could posters, magazines, paintings, films, books, and music inspire you to write stories and poetry? See your work pub- lished in our writing magazine. Submit your work to competitions; our students have won many prizes for excellence in writing stories and poems. Grades 1-5

Slippery Science: Explore slippery, slimy, delicious, but very scientific chemistry via hands- on experiments with Silly Putty, Gak, and other mushy stuff. Grades 1-5

Puzzles, Puzzles, and More Puzzles! Solve, explore, and ultimately develop your own puzzles. Focuses will include logical and deductive reasoning, tangrams and other puzzles requiring visual and spatial acuity, 3-D cube puzzles, sudoku, futoshiki, and much more! Grades 1-5

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 puzzle- ments! Organize a dig and embark on a sim- ulated expedition to unearth fossils millions of years old. Analyze the fossils of various dino- saurs as well as of other ancient creatures, such as primitive cockroaches, prehistoric giant dragonflies, and trilobites. Grades 3-5

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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 | Grayslake/Prairie Crossing | Naperville - North | Naperville - South | Oak Forest |