Solar Energy: Bubbles to Rainbows
Grades: K - 2nd (Ages: 6 - 8) Co-ed
Seasons Offered: Spring
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Solar Energy: Bubbles to Rainbows
Grades: K - 2nd (Ages: 6 - 8) Co-ed
Explore our very own star! How can we eat sunshine? How can you make ultraviolet beads change colors? What happens when bubbles heat up? How does a sundial work? Create your own sun print pictures with light sensitive paper. Find rainbows in your very own sun bouncer. Check out the heat keepers and what shadows tell us; make your own creations to test the properties of sunlight and answer all these questions.
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 Word of the Week ‘WOW’ and at least one project. We encourage parents to ask to see their project and to explain the WOW.
Minimum students 8, maximum 12.
Available Sessions
No sessions currently available.
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