Science

Science helps us understand the world around us, but you don’t have to be a scientist to appreciate it. From learning about natural disasters to concocting your own toothpaste, SummerPrep’s wide array of science courses offers fun and compelling opportunities to learn more about our planet and all who inhabit it.

Biology: The Science of Life

You’re on a quest for the science of life! In this class, you’ll learn biological classification, build your own ecosystem, go out to the garden, observe insects, and much more!
Grades: 3 - 5
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Time: Period 1
Tuition: $115

Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tornadoes – The Power of Nature

Journey through the inner workings of our planet’s amazing forces of nature: earthquakes, volcanoes, and tornadoes! In this class, you’ll discover what makes them tick, tick, tick, BOOM!
Grades: 3 - 5
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Time: Period 4
Tuition: $115

NEW! Escape Room and Mystery Science

Use your logic to investigate the fascinating world of forensics and solving mysteries! Explore the fundamentals of assembling evidence and identifying a criminal. Use fingerprints, hair samples, shoe prints, DNA, and other clues to solve a mystery. Through role-playing scenarios you will solve mysteries and problem solve to “escape the room.”
Grades: 5 - 8
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Time: Period 2
Tuition: $115

NEW! Magical Science

Have fun exploring the different states of matter and all the magical things that science can do. You will get to try different experiments to test the world around you and observe how science can make what seems to be impossible, possible.
Grades: 5 - 8
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Time: Period 3
Tuition: $115

Science Fever

The young mind is curious to learn just about everything, so what better time than now to discover the amazing world of science? Campers will complete hands-on experiments to learn theories and facts. When you learn how important the fundamentals of science are in your life, everything changes!
Grades: K - 2
Session: 1, 2, or 3
Time: Period 2 or 3
Tuition: $115

NEW! Zap ’n Buzz: Electricity + Magnets

Learn how the relationship between electricity and magnetism creates and explains our modern world. Study static electricity, electric fields, DC electric circuits, magnetic fields, electromagnetic induction, and AC circuits and use our knowledge to investigate lightning, generators, and transformers and build batteries, electromagnets, motors, telegraph keys, and other neat electrical devices.
Two-period class
Grades: 4 - 8
Session: 2 or 3
Time:
Grades 4 - 6 = Periods 1 AND 2
Grades 6 - 8 = Periods 3 AND 4
Tuition: $230