Summer 2021
Time Travel Week
Summer 2021 Program:
Time Travel Week
A week long experience
9:00 am to 3:00 pm for kids ages 6.5 - 11
Runs June 28th - September 10th
This five-day program is for young people who love to have fun, ask weird questions and use their imagination while exploring the past, present and future. We will run a week-long curriculum beginning June 28th through the end of Summer.
What to expect
It is summer time, so we will spend most of our time outside playing games mixed with STEAM-focused, hands-on learning activities.
Each day we will travel through time, going deep into the past using our mineral and rocks collection for inspiration. We will learn and play with bubbles, magnets, and light prisms to understand more about the Earth and Universe.
We’ll also jump into the future — imagining what life might be like with space travel and new technologies like self-driving cars and wearable exoskeletons!
The week includes making things every day, culminating with a take home personal time capsule that families can bury or put away (in your closet!) for safe keeping until 2050.
Learn more below about the schedule, activities, Covid-policy, scholarships and sign up below!
Daily Schedule
Daily Schedule: 9:00 - 3:00
The class is based in our retail store
Gathering spot: Into the Future
(477 7th Ave, Brooklyn)Morning: Prospect Park
Lunch: Into the Future (either at tables outside in the shade or inside, weather permitting)
Afternoon: Mayrose Park & Butterfly Garden near PS10
Pick up spot: Into the Future, 7th Ave & Windsor Pl
Look at our week together
Day One
The Elements
Learn how stars create elements like carbon, oxygen, iron, and silicon - which shape everything in our bodies and the world around us!
We will play with magnets, pyrite, quartz and bright green copper ores.
Activity:
Create our own Nebula Jars
Day Two
Things that See
Look through light prisms and lenses to learn about the first Trilobite eyes! Then, we leap into the future to imagine a world where cars can see.
We will play with calcite, quartz and light prisms!
Activity options:
Create Futuristic Objects that Can See
Day Three Creativity
Learn about early human creativity by making rock pigments to tell stories on our own cave wall paintings!
We will play with banded iron, hematite, volcanic material and stromatolites.
Activity:
Create Cave Wall Paintings about Life in 2021!
Day Four
Shells & Skeletons
Learn about minerals found in shells and fossil skeletons then design our own futuristic exoskeleton suits!
We will play with fossils, shells, fluorites and jaspers.
Activity
Create Futuristic Exoskeleton Suits!
Day Five
After a nice hike in Prospect Park we will create our own personal Time Capsules that won’t be opened until 2040 when we are grownups!
Our Location: South Slope Brooklyn (F/G Trains)
Our retail store home base is at 477 7th Ave (Windsor Place) but we will spend lots of time in Prospect Park and nearby at the Butteryfly Garden and Mayrose (Triangle) Park.
Safety Policy