2008 Youth in College Classes
FIRST START IN ART
Are you a budding artist? Do you like to paint? Do you like to sculpt? Join First Start in Art and learn to really see, not just look. Learn to capture what you see in an artistic form. Learn about famous artists and their contribution to world of art. TREASURE TROVE
Would you like to go on a treasure hunt? Each day you will go on a treasure hunt, you will read at least one piece of literature, and you will create projects and participate in activities that relate to the day’s treasure. Come along with us and discover what treasures really are! STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT
Do you love the sparkle and shine of the stars at night? Do you love learning about planets and outer space? Explore stars, planets, and space travel! Join us for stories, art, songs, and other activities. Become a young scientist as you conduct experiments! We’ll have an astronomically good time! JOURNEY TO FRANCE (Beginning French language and culture)
Travel in your imagination to France! We’ll explore the stories of Babar, the Elephant, first written and illustrated in the 1930s in France by Jean de Brunhoff for his own children. Jean’s son, Laurent, has continued to write countless more. We will begin each day reading from a selection of the Babar stories. For our lessons in French language and culture, we will take our cues from Babar! We will voyage to faraway lands, visit a Museé d’Art, explore Celesteville with cars and mat, construct Babar’s and our own family trees, learn to play “les boules,” snack in our Café Français, sing, dance, and otherwise be merry, as together we experience the joys of learning another language. PONDS AND PUDDLES
What kind of life forms can you find in and on a pond? In Ponds and Puddles, you will learn how to be a keen observer of the life in a pond. You will conduct scientific experiments and write about your findings in a field journal. Make fun discoveries about water. Wouldn’t you like to become a naturalist with us? BUSINESS 101
Begin your career as an entrepreneur by using computers for research, investigation, design, and production. You will invent a product and then create newsletters, labels, business cards, and T-Shirts to market your product. You’ll write animated stories and use the Internet, too. Wall Street…watch out! Young entrepreneurs are on the way! HABLO ESPANOL! (Beginning Spanish language and culture)
Embark on a journey of discovery as you learn Spanish. Learn how to greet people, count, and tell the time and date. Learn to identify colors and objects including parts of your body, clothing, animals, foods… and more! Learn the names for family members. You will learn to sing Spanish songs, create cultural objects, act out skits and conversations, read bilingual books, visit Spanish speaking countries via books, videos and computer. Our final activity will be a field trip to a Mexican Restaurant. Ole! A LITTLE TRIP TO ITALY (Beginning Italian language and culture)
Attenzione studenti! Is pizza your favorite food? Then you would love A Little Trip to Italy! Join us and learn to speak, think, and even eat Italian. Learn about Italy’s geography, art, science, customs, traditions…and more! Paint on your back as Michelangelo did. Take a field trip with us to an Italian restaurant and order in Italian. Ciao studenti! See you in Italy! ON A QUEST WITH THE DRAGON (Beginning Chinese language and culture)
Did you know that Chinese culture is 5000 years old? Join us as we learn to speak Mandarin Chinese. Learn to write Chinese characters. Learn numbers and colors. Learn to sing familiar songs in Chinese and the craft of Chinese knotting. Join us for a field trip to a Chinese restaurant where you’ll learn to make “pot stickers” from scratch. Do you want to have fun and exercise your brain? Go on a Quest with the Dragon – you’ll be surprised at what you’ll gain! SHIPWRECKS
Imagine rolling, rocking, cracking, crushing waves of water. You’ll dive into researching ocean, river, and Great Lakes shipwrecks. You’ll float through various water experiments and explore “Fact vs. Fiction” about a famous shipwreck song. You’ll create a video production reenactment of a shipwreck. You’ll chart shipwrecks around the world and much, much more! CASTLES AND KINGDOMS
Start as a lowly page and work your way up to a knight in shining armor. Attend a knighting ceremony. What was life like during the Middle Ages? Are you a prince or a princess? Stories, legends, tales of King Arthur and all the dragon lore that goes with the Middle Ages will be open to you. Make weapons, tools, participate in a catapult launching – the catapult is of your own design, you realize. Lords and Ladies, come join us for two weeks of medieval living. The King has decreed it! EXPLORE WISCONSIN
Would you like to become a tour guide for the beautiful state of Wisconsin? Join us for Explore Wisconsin as we showcase areas of our state by creating audio tours, developing Power Point presentations, and designing creative brochures while using a variety of media resources. Make an artifact box, using symbols and clues, to represent something well known in our state. Let others try to figure it out. We’ll be creating our own version of Wisconsin Trivia. Come join our trivia team and impress others with all you know about Wisconsin! MEET THE FLINTSTONES
Become an archeologist with us! Explore the tools of early man. Do you know what cordage is? We’ll make it using materials from the past. Make and use “early” drills made from wood. Discover why each of them drill without using the metals we use today. Learn the trade of flint knapping - the making of projectile points and arrow heads. Make beads and small ceramics in the same manner as early man. Discover how resourceful the Flintstones really were! GAMES & GAMERS
What makes a good game? How are games created? How can you get a job making games? Why are some people worried about games and gamers? We’ll study game design while also learning about playfulness, creativity, and teamwork! We’ll play a variety of games, including video games. We’ll learn how games affect our culture. Join us… and take your ideas to the next level! TRIAL BY JURY
Have you ever wanted to be a judge? Do your parents tell you that you’re good at arguing about anything and everything? Then Trial by Jury is for you! We’ll put Goldilocks on trial and maybe even the Big Bad Wolf. Help us let justice prevail. Join us and learn about the legal system from a practicing attorney. Order in the court! CRIME LAB CAMP
Do you like a good mystery? Then this is the class for you. Come join our crime scene investigation team to help find out who poisoned Professor Parris. You will learn how to collect and analyze finger print, “blood”, fibers, hair, and tool mark evidence left at a crime scene just like the CSI and FBI investigators do. Follow the evidence to find the criminal before he or she can get away. BRAIN DODECATHELON: PART V
Back for another summer! Are you ready to challenge all the areas of your brilliant brain? Bocce ball, juggling, drawing, Jenga, Boggle, improvisational speaking, and memory competitions are some of the events in this year’s competition. How will you do on the Wacky Obstacle Course? Test all your intelligences! Find your superpowers! A surprise or two might be included! TEACHING ASSISTANT
If you have previously attended Youth in College and you would like to apply for a position as a teaching assistant for a Youth in College teacher during the 2008 session, please fill out the application below and return it by April 21, 2008 to: Teaching Assistant Application: Application available by contacting Dr. Gould at (715)346-3223 or the email address above. |