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Storybook STREAM

Heidi Mellem — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:56:35 +0000

There’s nothing better than a good science experiment…except when you add it to your favorite book! We will read about Monarch migration and how to track their migration, we will also raise our own butterfly or monarch and set them free. Boom Chicka Boom, can you build a tree that holds the whole alphabet? Come explore the world of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) by building and creating straight out of your very favorite picture book! Will the big bad wolf be able to blow your house down? Or will you find the perfect design to hold up to a Magic Treehouse Terrible Twister?! Perhaps recreating Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’s Chess game combining analytical reading while also learning to play the fun game of Chess–then engineer your own chess sets/pieces. Come dive in and fall in love with the world of science as told by your favorite book characters. Course will run Monday – Friday. NO Classes will be held on July 4th and 5th.

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Backpacking 101: Longfellow Middle School Students

Heidi Mellem — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 17:38:16 +0000

Course Registration Requirement = This course is available to current 2023-2024 Longfellow Middle School Students in Grades 6, 7, 8. Parent must complete a course required application. To obtain the application please email Lila Planavsky at lplanavs@lacrossesd.org. Application MUST BE SUBMITTED before March 15th.

Students will learn the skill set of adventure backpacking and apply this knowledge during a 2-night camping trip.

Day 1 and Day 2: During the first two days, we will meet from 8:00 a.m.-12 p.m. in Lower Hixon Forest. Drop off and pick up will be at Forest Hills Golf Course. 8:00-12:00

These two days will focus on building and practicing the skill sets for backpacking and camping. We will practice setting up and taking down camp, and will be gaining confidence with hiking while carrying gear.

Students should be prepared to hike with elevation for a 4-6 mile hike. They should bring a backpack with shoulder straps that would work for a day hike, wear comfortable shoes or hiking boots, athletic clothes, pack a snack and lunch, and bring a water bottle with 32 oz. capacity.

Day 3: We will meet at Longfellow Middle School in front of the Rotunda at 9:00 a.m. We will travel to Yellow River State Forest, Paint Creek Campground for our first overnight education and camping at the campground.

Day 4: From the campground, we will prepare to journey by foot on a 14-mile (total over two days) hiking loop through the Paint Creek Unit. We will accomplish about half of our mileage as the first leg of this hike, then set up a wilderness camp for a night of forest camping.

Day 5: After wake-up, campers will pack up and continue onto the second and final leg of the trip, as we return to our starting location at Big Paint Creek Campground. We will load the bus at 12:00 and should return to Longfellow Middle School at approximately 1:00 p.m.

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COURSE CANCELED – Agricultural Entrepreneurship

Heidi Mellem — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:48:39 +0000

This class will run on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 9:00-11:00AM.

This is an AgriBusiness course that will help students learn a basic understanding of agriculture & business with focuses on plants, animals, leadership & entrepreneurship. Students will also learn about our food system and the safety procedures in agriculture systems. The content includes but is not limited to leadership & career and technical student organizations (FFA & DECA), importance of agriculture, plants and animals, the steps to starting a business, sources of consumer goods from agriculture to your table. Potential projects include planting seeds & plants, designing gardens, creating a business idea, working with school & community gardens, as well as field trips to agricultural businesses/guest speakers.

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Harry Potter’s World of Hogwarts

Heidi Mellem — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:56:36 +0000

Close study of varied wands of varied characters, use of how to create student’s personalized wands or replicas. Studying and reading some excerpts while having fun to re-create or innovate. Students spend their time creating and compiling the materials necessary to begin their first year at Hogwarts! Items include making wands, spell book, potions, broomsticks, house ties, house scarves, trading cards, playing trivia, and more. The class incorporates reading excerpts, a day of Quidditch, and concludes with a Hogwarts induction ceremony. Game playing, Lego Building, all included along with wood carving. . . . prototype building and final product building. Course will run Monday – Friday. NO Classes will be held on July 4th and 5th.

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Crafty Crafters

Heidi Mellem — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 15:49:20 +0000

Origami Students complete hands-on activities that teach about origami, an Asian paper-folding art form. From frogs to flowers to airplanes, this class will give students an introduction into the art of folding paper! Jewelry Design, learning basic jewelry terms and how to design basic jewelry. ‘Shrinky Dink’ designs to incorporate into window hangings, garland and additions to their jewelry—learning how to easily apply these techniques to consumable fast food left over items that can be recycled instead of thrown. Look closely at science of why things reduce down percentages by heating up, reading about paper cranes, etc. Course will run Monday – Friday. NO Classes will be held on July 4th and 5th.

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Under Construction

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:28:50 +0000

Do you love to build things? A hands-on class where students build different challenges they choose from various materials, from legos to popsicle sticks. A chance to be creative and try to see if you can build different challenges. Sign up for one class for two hours or both this an team building for 4 hours of back to back fun.

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Rats Eye view: Eco Art in action

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:24:36 +0000

Be Green, A Rats Eye View of Garbage is a program that fuses science, environmentalism, and art.

Students will work together to create animal sculptures from reusable materials and learn the chemistry of plastics and forever chemicals. This experience will provide a new perspective, or “Rat’s Eye View” of our human impact on the planet and provide hands-on opportunities for students to advocate for change. This project is sponsored by the Pumphouse Regional Arts Center. Community artists, scientists and university students will collaborate with art educators to provide studio time, research time and field trips to local garbage and recycling plants. Through the written word students will have the opportunity to reflect on their own plastic consumption and their artistic transformations of plastics. These artist statements will be displayed alongside their art in community public spaces.

Throughout this course students will work with adults when using power tools and attachment materials. This green journey allows students to come to terms with their environmental impact, knowledge of individual ways to make change, and how to use art as a form of advocacy.

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CS Discoveries: Interactive Animations and Games

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:44:08 +0000

In this Interactive Animations and Games course, students create programmatic images, animations, interactive art, and games. Starting off with simple, primitive shapes and building up to more sophisticated sprite-based games, students become familiar with the programming concepts and the design process computer scientists use daily. They then learn how these simpler constructs can be combined to create more complex programs. In the final project, students develop a personalized, interactive program.

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CS Fundamental: Introduction to Coding

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:40:28 +0000

Now even the youngest students can explore the limitless world of computing! Using Code.org’s Computer Science Fundamentals course, this class will blend online, self-guided and self-paced tutorials along with “unplugged” classroom activities to explore the underlying coding concepts behind web, app, and game design. By the end of each mini unit, students use coding principles to program and create interactive games or stories that they can share with others.

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Web Page Creation Using AI “Artificial Intelligence”

Heidi Mellem — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:30:54 +0000

Use AI(Artificial Intelligence) to create a web site in minutes! No experience at all is needed. Let AI do your programming. Be a PRO when you leave the class! One 2-hour Class only. Grades 5-12.

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