Challenge Island: Animal Kingdom
Description
Challenge Island: Animal Kingdom: Tuesday
Grades: PreK4-K
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m.
Date: 1/14/2025- 5/13/2025
17 classes; No class dates: 3/18/2025

This wildly popular island has STEAM teams engineering their way through the diverse habitats of the Animal Kingdom. Busy Beehive©, Plankton Bay©, Penguin Iceberg©, Jellyfish Junction© and Elephant Bridge© are a few highlights of the Animal Island experience.

Class Overview:

Jellyfish: Introduction to jellyfish, chemistry, and polymers.
• Activity: Form teams, make jellyfish slime.
Elephant: Engineering suspension bridges for strength.
• Activity: Build a bridge to hold weight.
Penguin: Penguin adaptations, gravity, and aerodynamics.
• Activity: Create toboggans for penguins to travel down a hill.
Anaconda: Snake physics, kinetic and potential energy.
• Activity: Build a snake-like coaster track that spins.
Shark: Sharks, food chain, and mazes.
• Activity: Build a marble maze showing the shark food chain.
Monkey: Study of monkeys and simple machines.
• Activity: Create a monkey playground using simple machines.
Jaguar: Jaguars, food chains, magnetics, and gameplay science.
• Activity: Build a game using magnets that teaches about jaguar food chains.
Pet Emergency: Pet adaptations and veterinary science.
• Activity: Build a car or wheelchair for pets, exploring wheels and axles.
Busy Bees: Study of bees and hive shapes.
• Activity: Build a beehive, exploring different shapes.
African Safari: African habitats exploration.
• Activity: Build an African habitat and a ride to travel through it.
Egg Drop: Physics of bird nests and egg protection.
• Activity: Design a structure to protect an egg when dropped.
Bigfoot Mountain: Biomes of Mount Kilimanjaro and roller coasters.
• Activity: Build a roller coaster track down the mountain.
Elephant Rescue: Elephant sanctuaries and animal care.
• Activity: Learn about helping injured elephants and build a prosthetic leg.
Zip Line Butterfly: Butterflies, gravity, and aerodynamics.
• Activity: Design a butterfly to zip down a line with aerodynamic efficiency.
Shark Towers: Engineering challenge.
• Activity: Build and explore structural engineering concepts.

Instructor: Challenge Island
Location:
Parish Episcopal School - Hillcrest Campus
Dates:
1/14/2025 - 5/13/2025 11:00 PM
Time:
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Ages:
Grades Pre-Kindergarten Year Four - Kind
Cost:
$610.00
Availability:
This session has openings
Registration will end on 5/13/2025 at 11:00 PM.