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Week 2 AM: Lift Off! Engineering in Air & Space

Hey camp families! This week your little campers turned into junior rocket scientists. We had an exciting week with a lot of activities to keep their spirits flying high. Monday, the campers learned about the beginning topics of flight. We learned about pressure through a ping pong ball flying out of a cone if you…

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Published June 27, 2025By chasebr
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Week 2 PM Questions: Our Planet Rocks

Hello Camp Families!  We are excited for our second week of camp! To help better connect with your camper(s) and talk about the activities they are doing, here is a list of questions to help you hear about the exciting days they have this week. On Monday, we’re asking “what’s the weather?” and exploring storms,…

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Published June 23, 2025By jklav
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Week 2 AM: Engineering in Air & Space Questions

Week 2 AM  Lift Off! Engineering in Air & Space Questions Hello Camp Families!  We are excited for the second week of camp to get started! To help better connect with your camper(s) and talk about the activities they are doing, here is a list of questions, so that you can hear about the exciting…

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Published June 23, 2025By chasebr
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Week 2 LE PM: Water Explorers Questions

Hello camp families, We are very excited to do all things water this week! Here are some questions you can ask your camper to learn more about their day. We start off Monday with all about water! Tuesday we are learning about the water cycle! Wednesday is all about bodies of water! Thursday is all…

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Published June 23, 2025By hazelp
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Week 2 LE AM: Science Explorers Questions

Hello camp families, We are so excited to start off week 2 of camp with science explorers! Every day focuses on a new topic, so here are some questions you can ask your camper to learn more about what they did. On Monday, our day is about dinosaurs! Tuesday is all about animals! Wednesday, we…

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Published June 23, 2025By hazelp
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Week 1 PM: Solar System Safari

Hi Camp Families!  We had a blast preparing for takeoff with your campers on our solar system safari this week!  On Monday, campers traveled the solar system with a super space board game. Then, they put their solar system knowledge to use by bringing the solar system to life with inflatable planets and orbiting campers!…

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Published June 20, 2025By jklav
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Week 1: Space Explorers

Hello camp families, We hope you had a great time as a space explorer! Here’s a recap of our week. Monday, we started off with a book called What’s Out There? A Book About Space. We then started painting our solar system spiral so we could let them dry to finish up tomorrow. We then…

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Published June 20, 2025By Museum Staff
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Week 1 : Dinosaur Explorers

Hello camp families,  We had such a great time becoming dinosaur explorers this week! Here is our recap. Monday, we began with a story called Curious George’s Dinosaur Discovery. We then got to learn about what features a dinosaur does and does not have. To put our knowledge to the test, we explored the Evolution…

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Published June 20, 2025By Museum Staff
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Week 1 AM: Discovering Dinosaurs

Hey camp families! We had a blast this week learning all about dinosaurs with your campers!  On Monday, campers learned what a dinosaur was through the 4 non-dinosaur rules. We then played some games of Dinosaur Says… a spin on Simon Says, and then searched for real avian-dinosaurs outside (bird watching). The campers decorated a…

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Published June 20, 2025By chasebr
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Week 1 PM Solar System Safari Questions

Hello Camp Families!  We are excited to start off with the first week of camp! To help better connect with your camper(s) and talk about the activities they are doing, here is a list of questions to help them tell you about the exciting days they have this week. Monday we’re setting off on our…

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Published June 16, 2025By jklav
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