Cedar Weaving Workshop – Cedar Hearts
This is an educational workshop for children and preteens to learn from an Indigenous cedar weaver the process of traditional cedar weaving. Participants will experience weaving a cedar heart to take home, with the option of writing a private and personal message to place inside the pouch before twining the two sides together. The artist […]
WEDO 2 Robotics
The LEGO Education WEDO 2.0 system provides an exciting experience into the world of Robotics! WEDO 2.0 supports a hands-on, minds on learning experience. Using LEGO elements, and experimentation, and incorporates activities across science, engineering, and technology with STEM education. No prior robotics experience necessary. Students will be assigned projects according to their abilities and […]
WEDO 1 Robotics
Exciting and Fun introduction to Robotics with Lego® Education WeDo 1 software. In this exciting STEM-based program, students will develop their skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Using LEGO elements, teams of students will build various robots featuring a working motor, sensors, and gears, and then program their models using block coding, and engage […]
Young Commander Chess – Intermediate
Intermediate/Advance: 6-12 yrs old; anyone with knowledge of chess tactics and combinations. As a school academic in a game, playing chess and being smart are interconnected. There’s a strong correlation between chess and academic achievement including math, spatial analysis and non-verbal reasoning ability. Joining in this Sherlock-Holmes-world of tactics and strategies, kids get trained in […]
Young Commander Chess – Novice/Starter
Novice/Starter: 6-12 yrs old; anyone with limited or no knowledge of chess basics As a school academic in a game, playing chess and being smart are interconnected. There’s a strong correlation between chess and academic achievement including math, spatial analysis and non-verbal reasoning ability. Joining in this Sherlock-Holmes-world of tactics and strategies, kids get trained […]
Red Cross Babysitting Course
The Babysitting Course refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviors to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. […]
Red Cross Babysitting Course
The Babysitting Course refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviors to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. […]
Reading Lessons – One to One
A 27 minute private reading lesson to boost literacy and have fun doing it. Students aged 6-8years old will learn phonemic skills, letter recognition and develop fluency. Using fiction and non-fiction illustrated books we will sound out words, read together, read aloud and talk about the stories. All this will build confident readers that will […]
EFK: Playful Playground
In this camp, students will become mechanical engineers that have been hired to design the ultimate playground in their community. Playgrounds are packed full of simple machines such as levers, wheels and axles, inclined planes, and pulleys. In these lessons students will learn about the simple machines they encounter every day at the playground, while […]
EFK: Aerospace Engineering: Up Up and Away
Blast off for adventure in this exciting week of aerospace engineering! Students will learn about the forces of flight and the mechanical components of airplanes, rockets, helicopters, and landing gear. They will explore concepts such as inertia, propulsion, lift, thrust, drag, gravity, and trajectory. Students will apply the EFK Engineering Design Process as they soar […]
