Summer Camp 2008 | Chapel Hill Camps
| Estes Hill Elementary School 500 Estes Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514 July 7 – August 1
Full-Day Camps |
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CHAPEL HILL CALENDAR
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| July 7-11 |
Digging for Dinosaurs – 1/2 day Beneath Your Feet – full day |
Move It! Happily Ever After |
A Trip Through Time Amusement Park Science |
| July 14-18 | Let's Get Moving – 1/2 day Once Upon a Time – full day |
Dinosaur Detectives Subterranean Science |
Nature's Architects Amusement Park Science |
| July 21-25 | Beneath Your Feet – 1/2 day Digging for Dinosaurs – full day |
Move It! Happily Ever After |
Nature's Architects A Trip Through Time |
| July 28 – Aug. 1 |
Once Upon a Time – 1/2 day Let's Get Moving – full day |
Dinosaur Detectives Subterranean Science |
Nature's Architects Amusement Park Science |
CAMP DESCRIPTIONS
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Once Upon a Time Bring your favorite fairytales and fables to life with science! Meet live animals from some of your favorite stories, mix magical potions, grow your own beanstalk, and more. Our enchanted week will cover everything from damsels to dragons. Half-day option: July 28–August 1 Full-day option: July 14–18 Digging for Dinosaurs They’re big, they’re bad, and they’re back. DINOSAURS! Become a paleontologist as you uncover clues from eons past. Dig for fossils, erupt volcanoes, and construct dinosaurs. We’ll create our own ideas about how these great creatures looked, sounded, and lived. Come and have a dino-mite week! Half-day option: July 7-11 Full-day option: July 21-25 |
Let’s Get Moving Use balls, wheels, pulleys, arms and feet to explore how things move on land. We ll roll, slide, jump and spin; practice walking like an orangutan or leaping like a frog. Discover the fastest and slowest movers as we investigate the forces that speed us up and slow us down. Get ready, get set for action! Half-day option: July 14-18 Full-day option: July 28-August 1 Beneath Your Feet Dig deep into the world of rocks, sand, and soil beneath your feet. Become a geologist by collecting rocks and panning for gems. Put on your miner’s hat and explore our bat cave. Use our mole tunnel to wiggle your way around roots, pipes, and worms. Celebrate your week by making a delicious dirt dessert to eat. Half-day option: July 21-25 Full-day option: July 7-11 |
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| Happily Ever After Join us for this imaginative mix of literature, art, and science! We’ll meet live animals, explore dragons and giants, track down that missing glass slipper, and more. Don’t miss out on this page-turning adventure! July 7-11, July 21-25 Dinosaur Detectives Unravel the mysteries of dinosaur life. Examine fossils, construct a diorama, and hatch an egg. Use your knowledge and imagination to make your own dinosaur models. July 14-18, July 28-August 1 |
Move It! Together we’ll look at wheels, tops, gears and pulleys to discover the many ways we move things from here to there. Investigate how gravity and friction work to speed us up or slow us down. We’ll test and measure our ability to move in different ways and compare our speed and jumping ability to that of other animals. 1 - 2 - 3 - Go! July 7-11, July 21-25 Subterranean Science Start your adventure near the center of the earth and zoom up toward the surface. As you investigate lava, caves, tunnels, rocks, and soil, you’ll also find out about the animals that live below–bats, worms, ferrets, and more. July 14–18, July 28–August 1 |
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| A Trip Through Time Step through the time machine.... Where will you find yourself? Protecting your castle from attack by invaders in the Middle Ages? Building a compass in ancient China? Preserving the body of an Egyptian king? A new adventure awaits you each day in this multicultural exploration of science through the ages! July 7-11, July 21-25 Amusement Park Science If you love roller coasters, this camp is for you! Explore the fun and science of amusement parks as you crash miniature bumper cars, spin Ferris wheels, and design your own roller coaster. July 7-11, July 14-18, July 28-August 1 |
Nature’s Architects How does a spider weave its web? What makes an ant an architect? From butterfly wings to snake skins, the natural world is a full of fascinating colors, patterns and structures. Come discover the workings behind nature’s designs as we eat like a bird, learn to interpret the evidence of mysterious animal visitors, and find a way to protect a young animal from predators. July 14-18, July 21-25, July 28-August 1 |
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