What is the 21st Century Program? What's happening this month?

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This program supports children by providing academic enrichment opportunities during non-school hours for children, particularly students who attend high-poverty and low-performing schools. The program helps students meet state and local student standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math; offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that can complement their regular academic programs; and offers literacy and other educational services to the families of participating children.

The program runs Tuesdays-Fridays 3:25-6:25 PM. Transportation to Millmont and Oakbrook is provided. For info call 484-857-7292 or the office at 610-371-5935.

Monday, July 11, 2016

Fun with Lego MindStorms EV3 for Absolute Beginners

These tutorials are about having fun building and coding small Lego MindStorms EV3 robots, finding out  how to command them to smile and speak, travel in straight and curved lines, and how to follow the edge of a line. It is a fun course aimed at "Absolute Beginners". The course is available here as a youtube playlist.

This mini-course includes about 2 hours of video lessons. How long it will take you to complete this course is hard to predict, but as a rough indication, we have used videos similar to these as the basis for about half of an 8-week, 2 hours per week after-school course for middle school classes and for Adult Education and Parent/Child classes. The course is structured as a “hands-on” “Learning-by-Doing” robotics course, with new building, programming and coding ideas introduced only when they are immediately needed by the robot. There is an absolute minimum of “talking-head” videos. You will need to have access to a Lego MindStorms EV3 set. The course is suitable for both the Lego EV3 Education and the Lego EV3 Home sets. The course shows you how to download a free EV3-G Editor from Lego. This Lego Editor is suitable for both Windows and Apple computers, but does not work for Linux, tablets or smart phones. However the course videos and ePub instructions can be played back on these devices, so that you can have the video directions available on a tablet or smartphone right alongside your Lego set as you go through this course. We have used the videos in this course during both individual and full-class lessons. The videos have also been used successfully by home study students. Have fun! Enjoy your robots!

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Newton's Laws

Watch Baker's Video On Newton's Laws Here.

Dr. Skateboard's Action Science presents video content that focuses on concepts in physical science that integrate action sports, including skateboarding and Bicycle Motocross (BMX). These videos focus on motion that are found in these sports, including velocity, acceleration, point of reference, momentum, energy and much more. Dr. Bill Robertson acts as both the narrator and a performer in the series, which also includes top extreme athletes in BMX and skateboarding. The videos provide participating teachers and students with a series of instructional opportunities and relevant content information that can be used to explore and explain the given content information as well as engage the students in classroom activities. - See more here.







Kite Making Experiment

'How To Make A Kite' a DIY from Groundglass on Vimeo.

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Make Your Own BRAIN CAP

If the video activity won't show below or is too tough you can try this one as an alternative



 

ASAP.org Brain Hat/Thinking Cap Tutorial

Our Brain - Human Anatomy -Lesson for Kids- School Science Video

Parts of the Brain

Is there a way to easily remember the many parts of the brain? Don't be afraid of all these complex terms; this lesson outlines some easy and fun phrases to help you memorize the brain's anatomy. Let's take a look. Your psychology friends are going to help you remember the parts of the brain! Let's start with the oldest parts of the brain, which are responsible for basic functions, like breathing and walking. Here's a phrase that can help you remember the four oldest parts of the brain: Bandura Totally Roughhoused Clowns For the complete lesson go to Parts of the Brain: Easy to Remember Lesson Here

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Bus Schedule for Summer 2016

The Summer Program starts this Monday June 13th. Bus pick up starts at Oakbrook at 9:00 am. Check out the full bus schedule below!

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Cool Idea: Create Comics

So, it's hot, and there's nothing I can do about it.  So, I'm thinking. What can I do that kids would think is cool!  I decided we're going to make our own comic strip.
Making Comics



Wednesday, April 27, 2016