Eureka Club
extended school day enrichment program
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Eureka Club is having a Barnes & Noble Book Fair
You can support Eureka Club through February 2, 2012!
Click here to donate books and materials from our wish list.
Click here to have a portion of your own purchase donated to support Eureka Club (enter voucher # 10669083 at checkout.)
Or present this voucher at checkout on Saturday at the Midland Mall.
Click here to donate books and materials from our wish list.
Click here to have a portion of your own purchase donated to support Eureka Club (enter voucher # 10669083 at checkout.)
Or present this voucher at checkout on Saturday at the Midland Mall.
Eureka
Club is an Extended-Day Enrichment Program available for all Bay City
Academy students grades K-6. During Eureka Club time our students
will learn and practice creative and critical thinking through
inquiry projects that follow their own interests and questions.
There are four areas or centers that make up the Thinkering Workshop part of the Eureka Club: Wondering Center, Build-It Center, Investigation Center, and the Reflection Center. Students will engage in several types of creating over the course of the program such as: Engineering, Architecture, Writing, Composing Music, Visual Arts (including drawing, painting, sculpting, computer presentation / design), Performing, and Programming. Through this active investigation and creating, students will develop the following learning habits of mind: Curiosity, Investigation, Invention, Innovation, Creating, Reflection, and Communication.
The afternoon format is highly engaging and creative. Students will engage in a process of learning we call “Thinkering Workshop,” where they investigate topics in which they are interested. Over time, students engage in all parts of the Thinkering Process as an ongoing cycle: Connect to Selves, Asking questions / Identifying problems, Investigate, Create, Share / Communicate, Students will engage in the cycle 5-20 times throughout the school year while keeping a Thinkering Notebook and developing a portfolio of investigations and creations.
Sample daily afternoon format:
Eureka Club Staff:
Jessica McFarland, Lead Instructor - mcfarland@meta4edu.org
Sarah Harrington, Instructor - harrington@meta4edu.org
Darcy McMahon and Kristiina Pilnik, Manage and Develop Eureka Club Programming
Click below to download the Eureka Club Handbook and Registration Form.
There are four areas or centers that make up the Thinkering Workshop part of the Eureka Club: Wondering Center, Build-It Center, Investigation Center, and the Reflection Center. Students will engage in several types of creating over the course of the program such as: Engineering, Architecture, Writing, Composing Music, Visual Arts (including drawing, painting, sculpting, computer presentation / design), Performing, and Programming. Through this active investigation and creating, students will develop the following learning habits of mind: Curiosity, Investigation, Invention, Innovation, Creating, Reflection, and Communication.
The afternoon format is highly engaging and creative. Students will engage in a process of learning we call “Thinkering Workshop,” where they investigate topics in which they are interested. Over time, students engage in all parts of the Thinkering Process as an ongoing cycle: Connect to Selves, Asking questions / Identifying problems, Investigate, Create, Share / Communicate, Students will engage in the cycle 5-20 times throughout the school year while keeping a Thinkering Notebook and developing a portfolio of investigations and creations.
Sample daily afternoon format:
- Quick Thinks: Something interesting from the Cabinet of Curiousities that the teacher shares and students take time to wonder in their notebooks.
- Critical or Creative Thinking Practice (Mini-lesson): Sometimes the teacher conducts a mini-lesson about Thinking Habits. These lessons are conducted by teacher modeling thinking out loud through actual questions / problems or small group critical thinking practice.
- Workshop: Bulk of the time is spent on students actively engaged in doing Investigation, Invention, Innovation, and Creating. Workshop time will alternate between Centers and Project Work
- Reflection: Students take a few minutes to reflect on their work
- Sharing: Students share their process and progress, needs and questions
Eureka Club Staff:
Jessica McFarland, Lead Instructor - mcfarland@meta4edu.org
Sarah Harrington, Instructor - harrington@meta4edu.org
Darcy McMahon and Kristiina Pilnik, Manage and Develop Eureka Club Programming
Click below to download the Eureka Club Handbook and Registration Form.
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