Helloo!
A word about planning. We want six colorful one hour-long projects and several activities to fill our waking hours with science, science and science. Getting lots and lots of ideas now is fantastic. Soon we’ll combine them and chisel them to create exciting, creative thematic projects and activities. That’s where color and theater and wacky names come in. Maybe a nature theme (with a more ridiculous name, of course) and a machine theme...hmm...
Also, we need a name for the science workshop! Any ideas?
- Yossi
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Three. Two. One. Blast off!!!
Hello!
Professor Yossi here. Well, we've had some cool ideas so far. Hard thinkers might enjoy math riddles and chess challenges. Then there are electronic and mechanical ideas like building robots, laser tag equipment, energy balls that light up when a ring of people creates a circuit, electric motors, circuits for megaphones or radios, a cannon that launches t-shirts and that mind control game where the intensity of your thinking will actually levitate a ping pong ball. Oh, and competitions of all sorts, e.g., bridge building, egg dropping and boats filled with pennies. Can’t forget about chemistry: Rockets with live video feed, silly putty, magic sand and crystals. And then there’s life itself. How cool would it be to time is so that caterpillars and tadpoles emerge over two weeks of camp?! We can also do cool genetics projects like extracting DNA from strawberries or folding proteins using long wire back-bones with amino acids magnets attached. But there’s life and there’s life in the wild. We can even go on nature walks equipped with butterfly nets, binoculars and miscopes. Can’t forget the telescope and roasted marshmallows night. Great ideas with lots of potential. Keep them coming!
- Yossi
Professor Yossi here. Well, we've had some cool ideas so far. Hard thinkers might enjoy math riddles and chess challenges. Then there are electronic and mechanical ideas like building robots, laser tag equipment, energy balls that light up when a ring of people creates a circuit, electric motors, circuits for megaphones or radios, a cannon that launches t-shirts and that mind control game where the intensity of your thinking will actually levitate a ping pong ball. Oh, and competitions of all sorts, e.g., bridge building, egg dropping and boats filled with pennies. Can’t forget about chemistry: Rockets with live video feed, silly putty, magic sand and crystals. And then there’s life itself. How cool would it be to time is so that caterpillars and tadpoles emerge over two weeks of camp?! We can also do cool genetics projects like extracting DNA from strawberries or folding proteins using long wire back-bones with amino acids magnets attached. But there’s life and there’s life in the wild. We can even go on nature walks equipped with butterfly nets, binoculars and miscopes. Can’t forget the telescope and roasted marshmallows night. Great ideas with lots of potential. Keep them coming!
- Yossi
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Google Doc
For an example of the collaborate work we're doing to plan, see our Google Doc. Note that this is a snapshot of our doc and does not reflect all our latest thoughts and plans.
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