Mechanical Energy: Gadgets and Gizmos
Grades: 4th - 5th (Ages: 9 - 11) Co-ed
Seasons Offered: Winter
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Mechanical Energy: Gadgets and Gizmos
Grades: 4th - 5th (Ages: 9 - 11) Co-ed
Be an inventor in this exploration of physics and electrical engineering! Make your own electric PlayDoh and light up LEDs. Build a battery out of pennies and lemon juice, make a microphone out of a matchbox and paint, and construct a steady hand tester. Try your hand at copper plating and a device that looks as if it’s defying gravity. Explore Bristle Bots and Color Bots.
Additional Notes
Students bring home a cover sheet from their first class which outlines the topics covered each week. Students will also bring home a Big Learning word and definition and at least one project. We encourage parents to ask to see their project and to explain the word. After the final class they bring home their science journal.
8 weeks, minimum 8 students, maximum 12
Available Sessions
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Ashburton Elementary School
6314 Lone Oak Drive, Bethesda, MD 20817
01/16/2026 to 03/13/2026
Fri
3:30pm to 4:30pm$198.00
About Big Learning
Big Learning’s mission is to operate instructional programs in language, sciences, and engineering for PreK, elementary, and middle school students in Montgomery County, Maryland. Our standards for value: We offer programs that offer children immediate educational benefit and enjoyment, while building powerful knowledge, skills, and competencies for a lifetime of learning. Our programs expand children’s horizons, and build excitement about learning and a thirst for understanding. Our commitment to equity: We strive to make our programs available and to provide value to children and youth across the income spectrum, and to improve equitable access to enrichment.
Currently serving schools in Montgomery County.
Refund Policy
Make-ups are scheduled when possible for weather closures, either by adding a week at the end or by lengthening the final classes. In the case of excessive weather closures when it is not possible to make up all the cancelled classes, no refunds are provided. Refunds are not provided for individual student absences.