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2008 UCI Gifted Students - Lower Academy
“EXPLORATORIUM”
for Gifted Students currently in 1st through 4th grades
An All-New Prehistoric Life and Paleontology Series
Guaranteed to Engage and Challenge your Student! |
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| The Gifted Students Academy EXPLORATORIUM is an all day innovative program for gifted and talented students presently in 1st through 4th grades. The Exploratorium is an integrated program of art, creative writing, computers, math and science. |
Session 1….July 7 to July 11:
TOPIC: Marine Paleontology - Students will classify fossil shells, hunt for prehistoric shark teeth, work on bones from extinct whales, and investigate other ancient marine mammals from Orange County.
Session 2….July 14 to July 18:
TOPIC: Dinosaurs - Explore up-to-date information and the ways we know these Mesozoic reptiles.
Session 3….July 21 to July 25:
TOPIC: Ice Age Life - From mega-predators to microfossils, students interact with life forms from the Pleistocene - the Last Ice Age.
Session 4….July 28 to August 1;
TOPIC: Mammoths - Extinction is forever, but students will bring these incredible Ice Age giants to life through math, science, art and language arts. |
| The Exploratorium provides a multimedia approach with computers and the web, science, art, language arts and recreational activities. Introduction to life on a college campus while experiencing hands-on laboratory activities and experiments makes the one-week program memorable. Sessions are from 9:00am to 3:30pm daily with an hour lunch in the UCI Dining Hall. |
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Contact: e-mail: giftedstudents@uci.edu
or call: (949) 824-5069 |
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