Science Adventure Kids
Summer Adventures
School’s out for the summer…
So what are you waiting for, lets get our adventure on. Science Adventure Kids has got an epic lineup all summer long.
You can sign up for a day, a week, a month or all summer. We’ve got our days full to the brim with exploration, experimentation and FUN!
Summer Schedule 2024
Are absolutely thrilled to invite you to a
summer of astounding science fun
from June 17th through Labor Day, we are filling the days, weeks and months full of exploration that cover all manner of sciences!
AND if you sign up now-
YOU GET AN EARLY PAYMENT DISCOUNT!
SUMMER 2024
WEEK 1
Monday June 17 Sun, sun, sun, here we come. Remember to wear your shades because today’s topic is going to be bright. It’s big, it’s bold, it’s beautiful. It’s a ball of gas we can’t live without.
Tuesday June 18 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday June 19 Join the Science Adventure Circus! We’ll play with the physics of the most entertaining acts while learning the show stopping skills of the big top! National Circus Project brings the three ring spectacle right here.
Thursday June 20 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday June 21 Human anatomy is intriguing and multifaceted. What makes us different? What makes us “better”? The amazing human hand! As we hone in on it, we’ll find complex mechanisms within.
WEEK 2
Monday June 24 Biomimicry! This is the amazing process by which scientists and engineers search through the natural, biological world. Copying plants and animals is the best, with tried and true solutions to so many problems.
Tuesday June 25 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday June 26 Hot Lava! Hot Lava! What about it? Imagine it extruding from a volcano, cooling rapidly and forming an Igneous rock. This transformation from hot to cool is very cool and rare, it’s Obsidian.
Thursday June 27 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday June 28 Staten Island Maker Space leads us in a prototyping workshop. Students will be tasked to create a machine to carry out an objective. Using skill, imagination and specific supplies, we’ll explore simple machines as we go through a scientific design process.
WEEK 3
Monday July 1 When you think of origami, you may think it is an artform, that is true. But let’s examine how it gives us a different way of thinking, figuring out how to engineer a simple piece of paper into something more. A telescope perhaps? Space crafts? Air bags?
Tuesday July 2 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday July 3 Mmmm….. Pi! So important, but where did it start and where does it end?!? Let's take a look at the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to… The answer is as easy as Pi.
Science Adventure Kids will be closed on July 4 & 5 in observance of Independence Day
WEEK 4
Monday July 8 Transparent Vs Translucent! What’s light got to do with it? What do we see or see through? Do you know the difference? What determines more or less definition of what and how we see it?
Tuesday July 9 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday July 10 Join us for a Science Adventure Kids Special Event!
Thursday July 11 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space. .
Friday July 12 When we think of the mesozoic era, it's all dinosaurs and volcanoes! But it was so much more. We can glimpse things that once were through delicately preserved remains or impressions, known as fossils. One beautiful type of delicate preservation is Flower Fossils.
WEEK 5
Monday July 15 Let's stroll back in time to Ancient China. Meet Cai Lun, his invention is about to not only alter history, but how we record it, because he is the inventor of the common paper and papermaking that we know and use today. I can’t imagine a world without it.
Tuesday July 16 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday July 17 Join us for a Science Adventure Kids Special Event!
Thursday July 18 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday July 19 Engineers figure out how to build structures that last, can withstand weather, pressure and external forces. We often think of this in terms of buildings, but what about connections from one place to another? Come explore the complex thoughts and engineering behind bridges.
WEEK 6
Monday July 22 Come discover a coral archipelago so stunning and intriguing to geologists, archaeologists and marine biologists. It is not only a scientific marvel and ecosystem, its beauty is unmatched.
Tuesday July 23 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday July 24 Wild Bird Fund knows how to care for fowl from hummingbirds to hawks. Today we investigate some of the reasons birds need rescue and care as the experts walk us through the plight and triumphs of city life for our feathered friends. Our human guest expert will answer our many questions along with an animal ambassador.
Thursday July 25 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday July 26 At the heart of our solar system is the sun pouring down heat and light that fuels life on our own planet. The hot and cold energy flows to us, the light shines down, shadows are cast. Solar Shadows invite our investigation.
WEEK 7
Monday July 29 Physics is fun, but what’s more fun? Bubbles! More fun still? The physics of bubbles! Come scrutinize surface tension with us as we determine the wonder of bubbles!
Tuesday July 30 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday July 31 Today we’ll be joined by a sensational NASA Ambassador. Caroline Carson comes to give us an out of this world solar system presentation. Get ready to launch your best questions for this stellar guest.
Thursday August 1 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday August 2 Dive into the pond with us to discover these loveable amphibians. They start in an egg sac in the water and go through some epic phases to become frogs that can hop right out onto land.
WEEK 8
Monday August 5 As the cosmic dust settles and star forming clouds of gas rise, they enrapture astronomers with their beauty and have throughout the ages. We love talking about Notable Nebulae, the rising star forming regions of our beloved universe.
Tuesday August 6 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday August 7 Explore the dynamics necessary to build a treehouse. Arch For Kids brings architecture to life with real world challenges and upcycled supplies to create models that inspire our love of playing in the treetops.
Thursday August 8 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday August 9 Meet a little element who has the symbol C and atomic number 6. It has many impressive features including being the chemical backbone to all of life on Earth… Have you guessed it yet? It’s carbon!
WEEK 9
Monday August 12 Is it snack time yet? I’m getting hungry. Speaking of snack, where does it go? And what happens when it gets there? Follow along the digestive tract on every stop as we discover the wonders of digestion.
Tuesday August 13 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday August 14 Using flowers, roots and leaves we’ll delve into the process of eco-printing. This unique technique applies color to fabric in a way that we’ll be able to see each particular dye individually.
Thursday August 15 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday August 16 The Aurora Borealis, fondly known as the Northern Lights, puts on a spectacular light show in the night sky way up north, but why? And how? If you’ve ever wondered about the reason for the captivating ribbons of illumination, we’ll be happy to enlighten you.
WEEK 10
Monday August 19 Rock the Rock Cycle with us, as we explore how the three main rock types form and break down over time. What outside factors play into the cycle? How might it change?
Tuesday August 20 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday August 21 Join us for a
Science Adventure Kids Special Event!
Thursday August 22 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday August 23 Once upon a time there was a man named Alfred Nobel. This Swedish chemist introduced us to dynamite and left his fortune to establish the Nobel Prize. So his contributions to science, while many, will forever surpass just his own.
WEEK 11
Monday August 26 Citric acid has many uses. Flavoring, preservation, and disinfectant to name a few. But where does it come from? Do you know which fruit has the highest concentration of citric acid? The incredible, edible lemon and lime!
Tuesday August 27 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Wednesday August 28 Join us for a
Science Adventure Kids
Special Event!
Thursday August 29 We will flow through themes presented throughout the week by our guest experts, workshops, and our students’ inquiry. We will follow student-led questions into hands-on projects and experiments. Students also have the opportunity to pet and care for our animal friends in the on site menagerie and play in our own backyard space.
Friday August 30 The dog days of summer will soon be gone, but never forgotten after the epic summer of adventures we’ve had. Let’s give summer a proper send off as we explore the delicious science of Ice Cream!
+++ PLUS: We are running 2 days after Labor Day!
Join us on September 3 & 4! +++
If your school ends earlier and you’d like us to run
Science Adventure Kids, with enough interest,
we will be happy to accommodate.
The Details
Time: We start at 9 am and finish at 3 pm
Extended day or early drop-off is available
upon request for an additional fee.
Drop-off Location:
112 West 14 St, #3E between 6th and 7th Ave.
Lunch: All Jr. Scientists must bring their own lunch,
lunchboxes are fine in the classroom.
Prices: Single day (9-3) $95
Full week (M - F, 9 - 3) $425
Fees include snacks and prizes.
Extended day till 5:30pm additional $25 per day
Early drop-off $10 starting as early as 8:00am per day
For questions or reservations, please contact us,