| Summer Programs 2012 |
Escape to Burpee
Tuesdays 1:00—3.00 pm
Fees: $12 per child, non-members
$10 per child members
Pre-registration & payment required |
| 6/19/12, 1 – 3 pm |
Escape to Burpee: Paleontology 101
Here is a class with actual hands-on experience in paleontology. Learn what Burpee is doing at its dig sites and the background basics which a paleontologist needs to know. Spend some time in Burpee’s prep lab and work with a variety of tools to prepare a fossil. For 9 – 12 year olds |
| 6/26/12, 1 – 3 pm |
Escape to Burpee: Fossil Mysteries
What was it? What did it look like? How did it live? These are some of the mysteries fossils bring. Let’s explore their stories and find the answers. If you have any fossils you can bring them and we’ll figure out what they are – you might even get some new ones to add to your collection. For 9 – 12 year olds |
| 7/3/12, 1 – 3 pm |
Escape to Burpee: Where the Earth Flows
Explore the energy that moves earth! Make gak to discover a solid that flows like liquid and set off outdoor explosions to see how gasses affect solids. For 9 – 12 year olds |
| 7/10/12, 1 – 3 pm |
Escape to Burpee: The Wonderful World of Water
Let’s meet down by the river and explore what lives there and who eats who! We’ll take an incredible journey to discover where water goes and where it comes from, and make a water related craft to take home. For 9 – 12 year olds |
| 7/17/12, 1 – 3 pm |
Escape to Burpee: When Birds Had Teeth
Where have all the dinosaurs gone? Explore the disappearance of dinosaurs. Get up close to Archaeopteryx and other feathered creatures of the Cretaceous, and build your own specimen.
For 9 – 12 year olds |
| 7/24/12, 1 – 3 pm |
Escape to Burpee: The Secret Life of Trees
Use tree “cookies” to look into the life of a tree, play games with leaves, explore the trees on the Burpee grounds and make a wooded toy to take home. This hands on and interactive program will awaken a sense of wonder of trees. For 9 – 12 year olds |
Burpee Adventurers
Thursdays 10:00 am—12.00 pm
Fees: $12 per child, non-members
$10 per child members
Pre-registration & payment required |
| 6/21/12, 10 am - 12 pm |
Burpee Adventurers: Becoming a Paleontologist
So, you like fossils and dinosaurs? Learn what a paleontologist does and see up close the work going on in Burpee’s prep lab. You will get the necessary background information to prepare your own fossil. For 6 – 8 year olds |
| 6/28/12, 10 am - 12 pm |
Burpee Adventurers: Mysterious Fossils
What was it? What did it look like? How did it live? These are some of the mysteries fossils bring. Let’s explore their stories and find the answers. If you have any fossils you can bring them and we’ll figure out what they are – you might even get some new ones to add to your collection. For 6 – 8 year olds |
| 7/5/12, 10 am - 12 pm |
Burpee Adventurers: The Exploding, Flowing Earth
We think the earth is solid and hard as rock. Discover through experiments how energy makes the earth flow and explode, shaping the earth we see today. For 6 – 8 year olds |
| 7/12/12, 10 am - 12 pm |
Burpee Adventurers: Water Wonders
Let’s meet down by the river and explore what lives there and who eats who! We’ll take an incredible journey to discover where water goes and where it comes from, and make a water related craft to take home. For 6 – 8 year olds |
| 7/19/12, 10 am - 12 pm |
Burpee Adventurers: Is It a Bird? Is It a Plane? Is it a Dinosaur?
What can we learn from studying fossils of the first bird? Have fun finding out about those crazy tiny dinosaurs from Mongolia and China and make your own feathered creature. For 6 – 8 year olds |
| 7/26/12, 10 am - 12 pm |
Burpee Adventurers: Terrific Trees
Use tree “cookies” to look into the life of a tree, play games with leaves, explore the trees on the Burpee grounds and make a wooded toy to take home. This hands on and interactive program will awaken a sense of wonder of trees. For 6 – 8 year olds |
| Critter Club – for ages 9 and up |
Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 pm
June 20, 27
July 11, 18, and 25 |
Here’s a wonderful opportunity to meet, and learn about, the
Museum’s live animals as you spend the afternoon feeding and caring for them. The animals include an assortment of reptiles, a tarantula, a salamander, some hissing cockroaches, and fish.
Registration is limited to 2 per session
$15 per child non-members
$10 per child members
Pre-registration & payment required |
