Home School Explorations Series

Home School Explorations Series

For 3rd–5th graders (ages 8–11 years), at Explora

Spring Semester: January 27 - April 22, 2025

Be curious, discover, experiment!

Overview:

Explora’s Home School Explorations Series offers your child a semester of weekly, 75 minute-long experiential science, technology, and art programs. Each Exploration is facilitated by Explora educators. These are 75 minute-long, materials-rich classes that actively engage every child in inquiry activities. In these classes, children will make discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art, and math through questioning, experiencing, and investigating. Children will be encouraged to build their own knowledge and cultivate skills such as observation, creativity, critical thinking, cooperative learning, communication, and innovation as they explore a different topic each week. Class topics change each semester.

Choose one day/time:   

  • Monday, 1pm-2:15pm 
  • Tuesday, 10:30am-11:45am 
  • Tuesday, 1pm-2:15pm

Registration Fee

Explora members* $125 per child per semester
Non-members $140 per child per semester

Join & Save! Explora members get discounts on semester programs, camps, and admission all year!

Register now for Spring Semester 2025!

1. Online: Select a session day and time to register online
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2. Call the Reservations office at 505‐600-6734 or e‐mail reservations@explora.us.

Explora’s Camps & Programs

Explora educators develop activities with children’s developmental levels in mind. Your children will have the opportunity to learn from, and work with older and younger peers and make new friends.

Registration/Information

  • You can register online
  • Please have the following available when you register: emergency contact name and phone numbers; name of alternate adults who can pick up the child; child’s medications, dosages, and physician’s name; child’s insurance information, as well as any allergy or special needs information for your child.
  • If you need assistance, please contact reservations at reservations@explora.us or 505-600-6734 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm).

Cancellation Policy

  • If a cancellation is received more than 5 business days before the camp, a refund will be issued for the amount minus a 15% administrative fee.
  • Cancellations received 5 business days or fewer before the camp will not be refunded.
  • Full fees will be refunded if Explora cancels a program

Spring 2025 Explorations Schedule

Fall 2024 Explorations Schedule

January 27 - April 22, 2025

Be a Mad Hatter

MON Jan 27 /TUES Jan 28

Many people wear hats, but have you ever thought about why? Test fabrics to determine which are the most water repellent, explore how hats’ forms are related to their functions, observe hats in works of art, and make original hats to wear home.

Crazy About Chromatography

MON Feb 3 /TUES Feb 4

Inside an ordinary black marker is a rainbow of color waiting to escape! Investigate how paper chromatography is used to separate the components of mixtures. Test colored markers, food coloring, and candy to see what unexpected colors each contains!

 

Drawing Nature

MON Feb 10 /TUES Feb 11

Become a scientific illustrator as you use grids, symmetry and more to draw your favorite animals and plants.  Investigate how science and art work together as you use magnifying glasses to examine insects and plants to illustrate them.  

Be a Rock Star

MON Feb 17 /TUES Feb 18

This isn’t about music; it’s about geology! Use microscopes and magnifying loupes to discover the main types of rocks, model the rock cycle, and perform a series of tests to unearth a mystery mineral.

Motion Picture Math

MON Feb 24 /TUES Feb 25

Explore Visual Perception Properties- including Persistence of Vision and Motion Perception.Apply mathematics measurement and concepts during the Zoetrope filmstrip design and optical toys.

May the Force be with You

MON Mar 3 /TUES Mar 4

They repulse, they attract! Experiment with pairs of magnets to find magnetic objects, create your own magnets, learn about magnets’ properties and behaviors, and find Earth’s North Pole.

Exciting Electricity

MON Mar 10/ TUES Mar 11

Students will discover electricity runs in a circuit and create their own circuits.

No class for Explora Spring Break Camps

March 17 - 21

Chemistry of Clay

MON Mar 24 /TUES Mar 25

Use microscopes to examine and compare natural clay, polymer clay, and craft dough. Test each material’s strength and stretchiness and invent your own playful putty to take home.  

Seed Science

MON Mar 31 /TUES Apr 1

Ever wondered how plants move? By their seeds! Join us to explore how seeds travel, design your own seed, and create a perfect environment for a new seed to thrive.

Out of the Blue

MON Apr 7 /TUES Apr 8

How do you create a photographic image using light from the sun? Use UV sensitive chemicals that you apply to paper and manipulate variables to make your own unique print.

Trebuchet Basketball

MON Apr 14 /TUES Apr 15

Using and modifying catapults, we will test our distance and accuracy to shoot some hoops! Who will make the first three-pointer?

Playing Around with Polymers

MON Apr 21 /TUES Apr 22

What is a polymer? Do the properties of polymers change when they’re made from different substances? We'll investigate the properties of this special material by making a number of different polymers and comparing their bounciness, stretchiness, and more.

Class topics vary from semester to semester. For more information about this program please contact our Reservations office.

Phone: 505-600-6734

Email: reservations@explora.us

Para información en español, llame al 505-600-6734