Summer Learning

Feel the Heat STEM Camp

For children ages 5-8

Price: $200

Location: Hillside Baptist Church

         27200 US Hwy 377 

    Bluff Dale, TX 76433

Program Dates: 7/18/2023 - 7/20/2023 

Program Times: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Description: Students will explore the warming effects of sunlight on Earth’s surface by comparing the temperatures of sunny surfaces and shady surfaces around the building. Then, they will design, build, and test models of shade structures that could provide a place to cool off on the playground. 

In these lessons, students will make qualitative observations of how warm it “feels” in the Sun versus the shade and collect quantitative data by measuring the temperature of the same surfaces in the shade and then in the Sun. Temperature data is collected using a handheld device called an infrared laser thermometer, which measures surface temperatures quickly and accurately (by teacher). These lessons also incorporate the engineering design practice of building a model. A model is a representation of a real object. A model can show how a design will look and how different parts work together. Using their knowledge of the warming effects of sunlight, students will build and test a physical model of a shade structure to keep cooler on the playground.

Students are encouraged to bring recycled materials to help provide extra materials to build their models.

Move It STEM Camp

For children ages 5-8

Price: $200

Location: Hillside Baptist Church

         27200 US Hwy 377 

    Bluff Dale, TX 76433

Program Dates: 7/25/2023 - 7/27/2023 

Program Times: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Description: Students will explore simple cause-and-effect relationships with forces and motion by experimenting with a toy dog (named Newton) and a toy car. Students will read about how pushes and pulls can stop and start motion and change an object’s direction. Then, they will apply their knowledge to complete a design challenge by getting Newton into his doghouse!

These lessons provide students with opportunities to recognize the simple cause-and-effect relationships

between force and motion. Students explore what happens when toy cars travel down ramps, move

across different surfaces, and bump into objects of different weights. These explorations give them the

opportunity to observe the effects of pushes, pulls, gravity, and friction before learning the names of

these forces from a nonfiction read-aloud. Students will learn that forces are pushes and pulls and can make

objects start moving, slow down, speed up, change direction, or stop moving. Gravity is a force that pulls

everything down toward the center of Earth. Friction is a force that occurs when two objects rub together.

Friction can slow down an object that is moving. For example, when a toy car rolls from a tile floor onto

a piece of felt, the car slows down because of the increased friction created by the rougher surface. These

lessons explore basic cause-and-effect relationships between forces and motion. Once cause-and-effect

relationships are recognized, students will begin to predict and explain events in new circumstances and

apply their scientific understandings to solving problems. In these lesson, students apply what they have

learned to complete a simple force and motion design challenge.

ABC Summer STEAM Camp

For children ages 5-8

Price: $200

Location: Hillside Baptist Church

         27200 US Hwy 377 

    Bluff Dale, TX 76433

Program Dates: 8/1/2023 - 8/3/2023

Program Times: 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Description: Students will review the alphabet with fun ABC themed STEM activities. Lots of fun crafts and activities to start the school year off right!

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