SUPER Saturdays Fall 2018
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SUPER Saturdays Fall 2018 Bowling Green and Louisville October 20, 27, November 3 & 10, 2018 9:30 am - 12:00 pm The Center for Gifted Studies WKU Discover that learning can be fun and [email protected] challenging! www.wku.edu/gifted 270.745.6323 Welcome to Fall 2018 Super Saturdays. Please look through the list of classes on pages 2-4 (listed by grade level) and then fill out the registration form on pages 5-6. Please contact us with any questions - [email protected], 270.745.6323, www.wku.edu/gifted. CLASS DESCRIPTIONS - EACH CLASS LASTS ALL FOUR WEEKS Fantastically Crazy, Amazing Goo, grades 1 & 2, ANDREA HEMING - Are you ready to see the world from the gooey side? 1 Goo is messy, sticky, gummy, runny, smelly, and lots of fun to make! We’ll be junior scientists as we make lots of amazingly gooey mixtures. Join the fun as we create, touch, smell, and even taste these wonderful, crazy concoctions. Are you ready to get slimed? Master Mathematicians, grades 1 & 2, KIERRA CHANDLER - Do you want to become a master mathematician? Then join our 2 journey with numbers as we explore fun and challenging games, puzzles, and exciting missions - we may even search for treasure or write some secret codes! Get ready to create, solve, and discover as you become a master mathematician! Pirates, Princesses, and Creatures, Oh My! grades 1 & 2, ASHLEY DAVISON - Art is a language of dreams and wishes. 3 Get ready to leave this world behind and embark on a magical journey. Put on your creative thinking caps and join us in making your wishes come true through fairy tale characters of your own imagination. Jump into your own magical world of fairy tale and exciting adventure characters. In this interactive class, we will create favorite stories and costumes, and you will be one of the characters by exploring 2D and 3D wearable art. Dressed as your favorite creative character, be the star of the catwalk on our final day at the runway show with your families as the audience. Time Travelers, grades 1 & 2, DIANNE WADE - Join us on a magical journey though time! Step into our special time machine 4 to explore different countries and times hundreds of years in the past. Your first stop will be Ancient Egypt with a visit to the Pyramids. You just might try on a toga from the ancient world of Rome, discover how people lived in the Middle Ages with knights and castles, and see how kids had fun in the 1920s. You will have a lot of fun learning about different periods in history and creating memories on each adventure! Acting, grades 2 & 3, JULIE ROBERTS BOGGESS - If you are interested in acting, come join our class! Come explore a few acting 5 games and learn acting techniques. Have fun creating scenery and props. Plus, during our final class we will perform a play for your families to enjoy. 6 Codes and Ciphers, grades 2 & 3, KATE WINTUSKA - From protecting classified information during war to signaling for help on the open sea, codes and ciphers are an integral part of our history as Americans. Through engaging and fun activities, we’ll become cryptographers - learning some of the most common ciphers, using a variety of code-breaking tools, and, ultimately, creating our own codes. Shh, secret messages being created and solved here. 7 CSI Detectives Club, grades 2 & 3, NIKKI NIchOLAS - Fingerprints…clue investigations…invisible ink – we have a mystery to solve and need your help! Dive into crime scene investigations (CSI) with escape activities, secret coding, evidence collection, and more. Get your magnifying glasses and detective skills ready to collect evidence, explore clues, and solve the mystery. Engineering in the Wilderness, grades 2 & 3, LYNDSEY DUKE - Did you know that you can filter water with a coffee filter 8 or build a shelter with a shower curtain? Get ready to set your imagination and adventurous spirits free as we learn about the natural environment and the important skills of survival. You’ll engineer solutions to develop innovative survival tactics while learning about the world around you. 9 Mythbusters, grades 2 & 3, CHRISTY GIVENS - What happens when you mix scientific method, gleeful curiosity, and inventiveness? You become a mythbuster! Have a hypothesis you’d like to test? Can you build a structure to withstand the elements? Can you predict a coin flip? Is the pirate’s patch really for eye protection? Join us as we use the scientific method to explore our common science misconceptions. Test the validity of rumors, myths, video clips, and more. Use the scientific method, chemistry, research writing, lab protocols, data collection, and data analysis to confirm or deny your hypotheses. You’ll write scientific summaries documenting surprising and amazing findings. The only limit to this class is your imagination! Ohh, What Slime-tastic-Fun! grades 2 & 3, STEPHANIE BEASON - Calling all scientists who like to sink their hands in 10 oh so slimey mixtures! Roll up your sleeves and get ready to pour, mix, and stir our way through the chemistry behind slime. We'll explore how mixtures, solutions, solvents, and solute join forces to create this squishy, messy ball of fun. Just how ooey and gooey can we get? SCIENCE ‘R US, grades 2 & 3, NITA COLE - Calling ALL Junior Scientists….if you like to explore the world around you, 11 this class is for you! You will do your own experiments as we learn the science behind some bubbling, gooey, and stinky chemistry concoctions. We will learn to use some tools of the trade while studying animals, plants, chemistry, and lots more. If you want to unlock the secrets of science, join us as we have fun while we observe, hypothesize, experiment, and conclude! 12 Cloudy with a Chance of Science, grades 3 & 4, LORI DARNELL - Do you want to be a weather whizz? Get prepared for strong winds and torrential rainfall! Get your thinking cap on and engineer skills ready to build your own transportation and homes that can withstand strong storms. page 2 13 Crazy for Coding! grades 3 & 4, KYLE SUMMERS - If Code.org, Scratch, Code Combat, Lightbot, Ozoblockly, Ozobots, and Unplugged activities sound intriguing, this class is for you. You'll learn to use various coding sites and tools to learn basic logistical thinking skills as well as basic computer language. Any projects you create you can keep and work on in the future. Coding is crazy - and fun! 14 Create Your Own Chinese Masterpiece, grades 3 & 4, CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE - You don’t have to pack your bags to travel to China - you can explore China right here in Bowling Green! Join in as we create Chinese art while learning some Chinese language. You’ll play sports popular with Chinese children, like Jianzi - Hacky sack. You’ll create tiles with Chinese characters, design a bookmark with your Chinese name on it, and make your own Chinese lantern and Beijing Opera Masks. You’ll learn a song in Chinese and a traditional Chinese dance. Each week you will take home a souvenir of your journey to China. 15 Fantastic Beasts and How to Create Them, grades 3 & 4, KATIE LASLIE - Get ready to enter the mythical world of fantastic beasts and creatures! Throughout history, people have written of great and terrible beings that shaped their imagination. Join us as we travel together to learn about mythical creatures, explore their origins, and discuss their essence. We’ll study ancient texts and drawings to flex our inner historian and then explore the anatomy and physiology of these incredible beings! Once we know what the fantastic beasts are and where to find them, we will stretch our imaginations and create our very own. Come and be amazed at the mythical beasts we all can make! 16 Get Energized: Engineering with Hot Wheels, grades 3 & 4, KATIE DEckER - Do adults tell you they wish they had half of your energy? Join us as we explore potential and kinetic energy in a variety of ways using Hot Wheels! We’ll learn about potential and kinetic energy by observing, predicting, measuring, and exploring the effect the ramp height has on the transfer of energy. Using scientific inquiry, along with math and literacy skills, we’ll gather data from our own experiments and then use data and graphs to present our findings. As engineers, we’ll test our creativity by building our own tracks and ramps. If you have a need for speed, then this class is for you! 17 History is Alive, grades 3 & 4, KALEIGH DAVENPORT - Live the story of America’s fight for independence at the Revolutionary War. Would you be a loyalist, patriot, or neutralist? From exploring the tensions of the Intolerable Acts, writing secret codes with invisible ink, and lots of hands-on interactive activities, you will experience the many stages of becoming America. After learning about America and its independence, you’ll create your own board game to take and share with others. Your imagination is all you need to experience the drama, mystery, and excitement of the inception of America. 18 Magical Alebrijes, grades 3 & 4, CHRISTY MATTHEWS - In the movie Coco, Miguel discovered the land of the dead during Dia De Los Muretos. He met his family that had long passed and the magical protective creatures that lived there called Alebrijes! These fantastical colorful creatures connect tradition, mythology, and family. You'll explore this magical place as you create your own 3-dimensional Alebrijes, transforming a toy into a beautifully colored patterned amazing creature from the land of the dead.