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EUREKA - Rock, Paper, Scissors
Inventing means curiosity! Leonardo da Vinci stated as an artist and developed many scientific observations that he recorded in his notebooks over the course of his lifetime. Children learn about his many discoveries and try their hand at his experiments,
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EUREKA - Science Fiction
Inventing means dreaming! The children decipher fact from fiction and play a future-based bingo game. These future inventors get a lesson on lasers, build a light stick and work on protecting a space ship from damaging space rays.
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EUREKA - Shipwrecked
Inventing means necessity! This day puts children on a deserted island in which they must work together to invent a means for collecting food and water, build shelters, bridges, and learn about density.
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EUREKA - Think Fast
Inventing means cooperation! Children review technological advances in flight and work together to produce improved paper plane designs. The children then step into space by launching self-built rockets and loading a pay load capsule puzzle.
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EUREKA - Whiz Kids
Inventing means practicality! Children work together to form circuits and recreate Tesla’s bright atmosphere for the 1893 World’s Fair. They talk about sound and learn that anyone, a child, woman or man, can be an inventor.The children prepare a patent.
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