The art creation class is a good time and a lot of fun. You can explore your artistic potential. We filled a large room with adults and children, all pleasantly engaged in creativity. Parents tell me it is therapeutic! If only I could contain the outpouring of karma in a vessel… Dear Mr Tom Orange of Lifegate Church School, Thank you.
Read MoreAcademy Science Club FLL Build Camp
For those of us who revel in the excitement of First Lego League FLL competition, this is a glorious time of year! FLL released their robot game board challenges and their field kit within the last week. We want to be one of the first teams to receive the challenge! There are few things more exciting than sorting hundreds of Lego pieces and building missions! This camp allows us the…
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Demonstration
Our club enjoys demonstrating to the community the interesting things we do in science throughout the year. Today we visited ACE True Value on 84th & Center in Omaha for our science club demonstration. http://omaha.net/events/academy-science-robotics-demonstration-2012-09-01 We get to meet some of the most interesting people! We are impressed when Mayor Jim Suttle stops by. When the Honorable Mr Mayor speaks, we listen and learn.
Read MoreReal live airplane flight!
We studied the Four Forces of Flight: Thrust, Lift, Drag, Gravity. We built model airplanes that fly. Retired Air Force Colonel Robert McCartney visited with a presentation on aviation. Today we flew in a real airplane at a local airport!
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Poultry Project
Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Poultry Showmanship Our science club embryology project has “grown” into our club poultry project. This is a big deal and required a great deal of logistics planning. There is more going on here than poultry growth and development! We learned about how to study important facts about our bird and how to present ourselves. Why are both genders referred to as “showman”?
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Nebraska 4-H Sarpy County Fair Rocket Competition The big day has finally arrived! The moment of truth we are waiting for! Most of us have designed, discussed, flown, redesigned and tested model rockets of different materials in the best attempt to minimize drag and maximize flight. We have a specially designed and constructed compressed air launcher that maximizes control of model rocket launch. We measure and record flight data. We…
Read MoreAcademy Science Lesson Plan Format
Grandpa says “sometimes teachers can be an odd lot, but it is hard to raise up children right without good teachers.” So we arrive at a place where we must always jump off from as teachers: the lesson plan format. There can be as many possible ways to do this as there are teachers, but a popular lesson plan format that grew from the research and practices of Dr. Madeline…
Read MoreAcademy Science NXT Robot course
There are few opportunities more exciting than some Lego NXT Mindstorm robot computer science programming and engineering. Our science club is fortunate to have a real engineer teaching us to design, build and program robots! Mr Nate Griffith deserves an award for his volunteer teaching efforts. We mix in a measure of robot computer science while we pursue our other science interests. Lego NXT Mindstorm robots have sensors attached to…
Read MoreAcademy Science Club Embryology Project
Can you imagine chicks pecking their way out of these eggs? We have a warm, humid environment in an incubator. It is about 100 F and 40% humidity in here. We are turning the eggs twice a day and talking to the chicks inside that are about to hatch. We started with one dozen fertile mostly brown chicken eggs on the first day. We rescued another dozen of mixed whitish…
Read MoreHello world! Glad to meet you!
Welcome to our Academy Science Club blog! Our blog will inform you about some of the interesting and exciting things we do as an education focused club. – STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Math; we make this STEAM by rolling in Art. Are you interested in visiting our club activity? – just contact me! We can arrange a visit date and time. You never know where we may pop up…
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