CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER VIRTUAL LESSONS

Our team is continuing our mission remotely with lessons to keep you “STEAM-ing” at home! 

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MAKE GALAXY SLIME WITH DANIEL

Enjoy Camp Challenger activities at home! Experienced educator Daniel Allison presents step-by-step instructions on how to make two versions of galaxy slime using household items.

PAPER CHROMATOGRAPHY WITH LIANA

Keep STEAM-ing…at home! Challenger Learning Center educator Liana Rodriguez performs paper chromatography and makes suggestions for experimenting with different kinds of markers.

CLOUDS WITH CHRISTINA

We’re continuing the mission…from home! Challenger Learning Center educator Christina Hagenbeck walks you through the water cycle and how to make a cloud in a jar using household items.

PROPER HAND WASHING WITH CHRISTINA

Challenger Learning Center educator Christina shares with us the importance of proper hand washing…and how germs stay on your hands if you don’t use soap and wash for at least 20 seconds! Sit back, relax and enjoy…then go wash your hands.

BIOPLASTIC BOUNCY BALLS WITH DANIEL

Daniel is back to teach you how to make bouncy balls with household items! Continue experimenting, exploring, and “STEAM-ing” at home – more virtual lessons coming soon from Challenger Learning Center.

EASTER BALANCING ACT WITH DANIEL

It’s Easter – the time for marshmallow Peeps! Learn about balancing points, the engineering design process and more with Daniel as he conducts a balance experiment.

EASTER CATAPULTS WITH DANIEL

Explore potential and kinetic energy with Daniel as he teaches us how to build a catapults to launch Peeps and plastic Easter eggs! Use the engineering design process to build and compare catapult designs, hold a virtual, friendly competition with family and friends, and have fun!

IMAX MOVIE MONDAY: WILD OCEANS

Join Nika from the Challenger Learning Center as she presents activities related to Giant Screen Films’ Wild Ocean, available to stream for free on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/401065415! Nika conducts experiments on density and fish bladders in this virtual workshop.

ICE FISHING WITH LIANA

Challenger Learning Center educator Liana Rodriguez conducts an experiment on ice fishing and how salt plays an important role. Try it yourself from home!

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: SAVING SALILA’S TURTLE

Join Layne for story time! Each Wednesday, we’ll read a book from the Engineering is Elementary collection – this week is Saving Salila’s Turtle, which introduces students to the problem of water pollution—and to some solutions. Check out the accompanying lesson, Water Filters with Daniel!

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: WATER FILTERS (ACCOMPANYING LESSON)

Join Daniel for a water filter experiment! Each Wednesday, we’ll read a book from the Engineering is Elementary collection – this week is Saving Salila’s Turtle, which introduces students to the problem of water pollution—and to some solutions. Do this experiment with Daniel and check out the accompanying story with Layne!

ASK A METEOROLOGIST WITH DANIEL

Learn about weather, climate and more! Daniel is a meteorologist and is here to answer your questions. Check out this lesson and learn something new about weather and safety in the panhandle area. Keep STEAM-ing!

BUILD A DENSITY TOWER WITH DANIEL

Build a colorful density tower with Daniel! Then test items with different densities and observe where they fall. Keep STEAM-ing from home with us as we continue our educational mission remotely.

IMAX MOVIE MONDAY: WATER BROTHERS

Check out this week’s show & accompanying lesson! Nika teaches you how to make an upcycled bird feeder and do a water-cycle-in-a-bag experiment in celebration of Earth Day! Episodes of the eco-adventure series The Water Brothers can be streamed for free at thewaterbrothers.ca.

MAKE A BAROMETER WITH DANIEL

Inspiring, exploring, learning…it’s our mission! Continue the mission from home by “STEAM-ing” with us. Challenger Learning Center educator Daniel Allison is back to teach us how to make a barometer, a tool that measures air pressure, with household items.

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: TEHYA’S POLLUTION SOLUTION

Happy Earth Day! Layne brings us another engineering story with Tehya’s Pollution Solution! Tehya and her friend discover oil coating the surface of a river. Tehya’s neighbor, an environmental engineer working on the cleanup, teaches them what they can do to help. Check out Daniel’s accompanying lesson on oil spills after the book reading.

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: OIL SPILL (ACCOMPANYING LESSON)

Happy Earth Day! Join Daniel to learn about the impact of oil spills and to conduct a simulated oil spill experiment using items you have around the house. This is a messy one, so head outside! This lesson accompanies Engineering is Elementary: Tehya’s Pollution Solution book reading with Layne.

TORNADO TUBES WITH DANIEL

Stay engaged from home with this tornado tubes demo from Challenger Learning Center educator Daniel Allison! Daniel walks us through several different designs, depending on what materials you have available at home. Enjoy and keep STEAM-ing!

SECRET MESSAGES IN INVISIBLE INK WITH DANIEL

Code and decode secret messages with invisible ink! Challenger Learning Center’s Daniel Allison leads a workshop on how to do this using household items, complete with a lesson on acids and bases and a joke or two.

RED CABBAGE pH INDICATOR EXPERIMENT WITH LIANA

Learn all about acids and bases through this fun experiment! Be sure to store your leftover red cabbage juice for the next kitchen chemistry experiment with Liana, coming up next week.

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! STAR WARS DAY

Explore miniature film-making with William! Learn different techniques you can try at home and see how the professionals behind-the-scenes of the Star Wars movies bring battling spacecraft to life. May the Fourth Be With You!

KITCHEN CHEMISTRY: TIE DYE WITH FOOD

Get creative with Liana from the Challenger Learning Center in a lesson on how to tie dye using household items! Liana dyes pairs of socks green (using spinach) and purple (using red cabbage) in this how-to workshop.

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: MARIANA BECOMES A BUTTERFLY

Layne reads to us from Mariana Becomes a Butterfly: An Architectural Engineering Story! Mariana learns the challenges of maintaining balance in natural systems and the rewards of agricultural engineering. Check out the accompanying lesson on making your own pollinator with Nika: https://youtu.be/dzA12hwbwlk

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: MAKE A HAND POLLINATOR

Join Nika for a quick, fun activity exploring how pollination works! Create your own handheld pollinator using household items and demonstrate how bees and other pollinators transfer pollen from one flower to another. Check out the accompanying book read with Layne: https://youtu.be/dm5_f5NwIJA

KITCHEN CHEMISTRY: MAKING ICE CREAM

Stay cool this summer by making your own ice cream! Liana teaches us the importance of salt in the process of ice cream-making, how to properly shake your mixture, and the best strategies for this delicious summer treat.

BUILD A HOMEMADE THERMOMETER WITH DANIEL

Join Daniel for another hands-on activity: building your own thermometer! Daniel walks you through a step-by-step workshop using household items. Thanks for helping us continue our educational mission at home. Stay engaged and keep learning!

IMAX & ACTIVITY: DINOSAURS ALIVE!

Nika walks us through two hands-on activities relating to dinosaurs! Test which “dinosaur mouths” are best adapted to pick up certain types of “food” and make a dinosaur skeleton. Check out the accompanying IMAX documentary, Giant Screen Films’ Dinosaurs Alive!, for FREE here: https://vimeo.com/401066917

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: JUAN DANIEL’S FUTBOL FROG

Layne reads to us about a boy who engineers a membrane to keep a frog alive. Students learn how membranes function and apply their knowledge of the basic needs of living organisms to engineering design. Check out the accompanying lesson on making a membrane model with William: https://youtu.be/IxxbN6JDbhY

ENGINEERING IS ELEMENTARY: MAKE A MEMBRANE MODEL

Check out this fun lesson with William! Membranes are thin layers that let helpful substances pass through and keep harmful substances out. Learn to think like a bioengineer and design a model membrane to mimic the properties of real membranes in live organisms. Follow along with the corresponding book reading of Juan Daniel’s Futbol Frog with Layne: https://youtu.be/YEJsH6divPI

KITCHEN CHEMISTRY: MAKING SALT DOUGH

Liana walks us through a super-simple tutorial on how to make salt dough! The dough is very versatile – you can use it to make ornaments, decorations, or keepsakes like a clay paw print of your favorite pet. Once you’ve baked your dough and it has set, get creative – paint or decorate your creation however you like!

SPACE EFFECTS ON THE HUMAN BODY

The U.S. just launched astronauts from American soil for the first time since 2011! Daniel teaches us the difference between gravity and microgravity, and explains the effects on microgravity on the human body in space. Conduct an experiment to simulate these effects on your own body!

IMAX & ACTIVITY: MUMMIES!

Part historic journey and part forensic adventure, Giant Screen Films’ Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs follows researchers and explorers as they piece together the archaeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. Today, scientists work to extract mummies’ DNA for medical research and cures for diseases. Christina teaches us how extract DNA from strawberries in this video! Check out Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs, for FREE here: https://vimeo.com/400675981
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