Rock-it Science Homeschool Class Descriptions

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Weekly Classes:
Tues: Mar 27- May 29
Wed: Mar 28- May 30
Thur: Mar 29- May 31
Fri: Mar 30- Jun 1
Spring classes run for 10 weeks with no breaks.

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Tuition for each class series is $140 per child. There are no family discounts. If you sign up through a charter school, the fee is $170 per child (to cover all the paperwork). Rock-it Science is an approved vendor for Ocean Grove and Connecting Waters Charter Schools.

Tuition is not refundable unless another paying student can replace your child. The only exception is if we cancel a class or if the class you request is full.

You may sign up your child for more than one class as long as they meet the age requirement.

Classes may be filmed for training or promotional purposes. Parents, siblings, and visitors in camera range may also be filmed.

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Homeschool Class Descriptions

We will choose from the list below (unless you have a suggestion that seems more interesting). Depending on the students’ interest, we may spend more time on certain topics and omit others, so actual lessons covered in the class may differ from this list.

Spring 2012 Teen Class (age 11-16):

1. Stretch Steel: Destroy wire, rope, and super-stretchy rubber to see if the new miracle plastics are really four times stronger than steel.

2. Conservation of Mass: Do explosions, fires, or atomic bombs ever turn matter into pure energy?

3. Popsicle Stick Strength: Break popsicle sticks by pulling, twisting, bending, and crushing and try to discover the best way to hold a wooden bat for baseball or for hitting minions.

4. Bridge Failure (Build): Build one or more bridges so that they will hold the most load for their weight, disintegrate suddenly, or toss pieces the furthest when they fail.

5. Bridge Failure (Test): Testing day.

6. Radioactive Stuff: We are literally surrounded by radioactive materials. Now is your chance to find out what it is and discover ways to shield against the powerful types.

7. Spontaneous Combustion: Find ways to make many sorts of chemicals burst into flames by themselves.

8. Magnesium and Dry Ice: Some types of fires will not stop burning even when air is removed. You can try to extinguish a road flare, matches, gunpowder and a few other things by removing the oxygen.

9. Building Stomp Rockets: In an effort to create nearly indestructible stomp rockets, you will design and test your own ideas and then everyone will jump on them to see if they still work.

10. Hydraulic Power: You will use the power of dunking ducks to fill a reservoir and then you’ll convert that water energy into something diabolical.

Spring 2012 Middle Class & After-School Class (age 7-12):
The classes for Younger (age 5-8) and Mixed Ages (age 5-16) will cover the same general topics as the Middle Class, but the presentations and experiments will be adapted as needed for the students’ ages and skill levels.

1. Polarized Light: Even perfectly clear things sometimes have colors hidden inside.

2. Samson’s Columns: Stack piles of books on paper supports and then run for your life!

3. Sunken Raft: Make all shapes of boats, load them up with money, and see if they can still float.

4. Shrinking Plastic: Put perfectly innocent cheeseburger trays in the oven and watch them wiggle and squirm.

5. Earthquakes: Build tall towers and then turn on the earthquake machine to see if they fall into a million pieces.

6. Corn Starch Monsters: Put something that looks like green mud in a cup and make it shake violently until it becomes alive.

7. Rainbows: How do tiny drops of water make rainbows and what is the smallest number of drops needed to create a rainbow?

8. Purify Water:Astronauts drink their own pee… how do they do that without getting sick?

9. Fingerprints: They are everywhere… discover ways to make them visible.

10. Straw Rockets: Discover ways to launch a straw so high you won’t be able to see it.

Students who attended the previous 10-week homeschool series receive priority when registering for the next homeschool class series. (Does not apply to summer camps.) Join our email list to receive announcements of future classes, programs, and videos.