Feb 21, 2012

Crystal Lake Park District Classes

All classes are held at the Crystal Lake Park District's "Veterans Acres Park" Rotary Building, located off of Walkup Rd., just north of Terra Cotta (Rt 176). Classes are 6 weeks long and begin next week: so the dates are from 03/1/2012 to 04/13/2012.  Unless otherwise specified, classes are on Thursdays

Please visit:  http://tinyurl.com/6mdw9cq  to register for these and for many other classes and for full course descriptions.  


Math and Science Club:  Thursdays from 2:15 - 3:15, ages to 8-11 at the CLPD's Rotary Building at Veteran's Acres Park
Math & Science Club: Multiplication and Division. Each week we will explore a math or science topic with a hands-on game or activity designed to help students explore a wide variety of topics in a fun way while improving vocabulary and memorization skills.  Math topics will include beginning multiplication, and division concepts, charts and graphs, geometry, and beginning algebraic concepts.  Science topics will include a wide variety of life and earth science topics including the diversity of life, basic genetics, biomes, the food  web, rocks and minerals, volcanoes, earthquakes, oceanography, and the Universe.  There will be weekly hand outs offering suggestions of activities, books to read, documentaries to watch, or games to play at home provided.
 

High School Science Offering: 
Environmental Chemistry Lab Part II: Fridays from 2:15 - 4:15, ages 14-18 at the CLPD's Rotary Building at Veteran's Acres Park
This course continues covering high school level Chemistry laboratory exercises and related discussions that will cover nutritional testing, distillations, solubility curves, and more - with an emphasis on biological and environmental testing when the weather permits. Students are expected to have had prior Chemistry laboratory experience and have already covered basic titrations and chromatography, possibly by having taken Environmental Chemistry I with Ms. Wentz in the fall. Students should be currently studying High School level Chemistry and be prepared to do some reading between classes.  Additional Lab fee of $10.