Creativity Challenge: Increasing Creativity
Are you creative? Would you like to increase your creativity and learn some new creative thinking skills? In this class, students will challenge themselves to increase their creativity by exploring several different creative thinking skills and putting them to use through reading, writing, and art. Creating new uses for simple items, designing new foods, writing creative stories, and making original art pieces are some of the exciting activities students will participate in during this class.
Calculating Probability: Building a Fun Fair
In this class, students will explore basic, chip, die and hand games and calculate their probability and determine whether a game is “fair” or “unfair, or whether the person playing the game has a high enough probability of winning. Elementary students will learn how to calculate probability and apply their knowledge by designing their own fun fair game. Middle school students will design and build their own fun fair game and host an actual fun fair in which the elementary students will attend and determine whether the games are “fair” or “unfair”!
Kid’s Chemistry
Do you have curiosity about the way the world works? Kid’s Chemistry will teach you many interesting things about the behavior of matter, including why some objects float and others do not. You will make a density column, experiment with acids and bases, and have a boat making competition.
Secret Agent Scientist
Have you ever wanted to solve mysteries? In this class we will explore forensic science and apply the scientific method to solve mysteries. We’ll learn to think like a detective, and apply critical thinking skills to find evidence and make inferences and hypotheses. We will use chromatography techniques to identify which marker was used to write a secret message, discover the secrets behind invisible ink, create scientific tests to identify mysterious substances, and even take fingerprints. Any mystery can be solved when there is science involved!
Field Biology
Have you ever wondered how all of the organisms in an area work together to survive? Field biology will let you sample the plants, animals, and other organisms near the University of Georgia and discover how they all live together. You will go on several outings to collect data and then compare it to your home ecosystem.
Building a Miniature Golf Course
Students will explore the concepts of geometry and apply their knowledge by designing a miniature golf course hole. Elementary and middle school students will design their own miniature golf hole, while learning about angles and using their findings to predict the path of the ball. At the end of the week, elementary and middle school students will explore and play each other’s “miniature golf course”!
World Travelers
This course focuses on the detailed information about different countries all over the world including languages, climate, economy, costumes, food, music, literature, time zone, festivals and holidays, historical and touristic places etc. This course specifically aims to help students to increase their intercultural sensitivity by understanding of different cultures, lifestyles, customs, and habits through hands-on activities about selected countries.
Multiplicative Reasoning in Combinatorial Problems
In this class students will explore permutations, combination and arrangement problems. Using computer software, Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSAP), online sources and manipulatives students will be able to visualize and express their reasoning. From there, students will create their own games, construct pairs from single elements, triplets from couples, quadruplets from triplets, quintuplets from quadruplets and more in combinatorial problems.
The Game of Life – Evolutionary Biology
In this class you have a “Squirmy”, a hypothetical primitive ocean creature that gets to choose certain adaptations in the gamble to stay alive. Challenges on this developing planet come in all shapes and sizes. You could be eaten by a Grak or come upon a new food source other than Krispy Krunches. Never knowing what is about to happen in your environment, you choose adaptations, and “natural selection” will decide if you can bring yourself into the next generation! Through this active and fun class of choosing adaptations and evolutionary characteristics of your Squirmy, you will learn about the fossil record, branching trees, and classification/taxonomy and come away with a greater understanding of what it takes for a species to survive.
Inventors and Inventions
Students will develop higher order thinking skills and creativity in an Inventors and Inventions unit! Students will become familiar with a number of basic inventions that contributed to the rise of human civilization, as well as the difference between discovery and invention. By the end of the class, students will design an invention that would help make our lives easier!
A Peace of Community
In this course students create strategies for providing peace in the community. Students will focus on the importance of conflict resolution and apply conflict resolution and problem solving strategies to the real-life, real-world situations. Both possible conflict situations in their close environment such as family and classroom settings, and more general conflict situations such as those that influence the whole world will be discussed.
Discovering Psychology – Psychology
This course will guide students into the interesting world of psychology. You will learn not only how minds work but how to understand and predict them. You will be involved in primary experiments of psychology and have the exciting and challenging experience of developing your own survey that you will analyze. From making a brain model and neurons with your hands to leaning about how emotions and beliefs will benefit your academic achievement later on, you surely won’t be bored in this class. As a final project you will look at how creative you are and ways in which you can be more creative by practicing creative thinking strategies in problem solving.