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Full STEAM Ahead with Saturday Academy
STEAM classes put the Art into Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math for an integrated, holistic, and creative approach to learning. This new category of classes will engage the student in deep learning across content areas and through multiple learning styles. Animal Audio: Chirp, Croak, Moo
What’s that sound? Learn how to identify animal sounds around the world, from bird calls to frog calls to the whoop of a hyena. Then explore the use of sound effects and music in wildlife films to help tell a story. Learn how to make the sound of a bird flapping its wings and the sound of a squirrel chattering. Use tools, instruments, and gadgets to record sound effects of animals and nature. Finally, we will write, record, and create a radio story, using our voices, sound effects, and music.
Grades: 2-3 or 4-5
Animal Sculpture
Do you have a favorite pet or just love all animals? Learn about the basic anatomy of the animal as a foundation for building wire, Paper Mache, or clay sculptures. Work with animal proportions and measurements to insure correctness in your representation. Learn the options of how to color and finish clay once it has dried. The class will work from photographs, small animal skeletons, and taxidermy examples, which provide a view from every angle (and a model that never needs a break!). Realistic poses will facilitate the impression of life and movement in your final art pieces.
Grades: 2-3, 4-6 or 6-8 Additional Supply Fee: $50
Animatronics
When computer graphics won’t do for a Hollywood movie, highly skilled puppet masters and roboticist are employed to create animatronics. Museum displays of animated dinosaurs, clad in latex and framed in steel, move their necks, open their mouths, roll their eyes and billow only by the efforts of a team of engineers, artists and story-tellers. This class will use Lego robotics and stuffed animals to create animatronics to tell a story. Access your skills in mechanical engineering, programming and choreography then team up with a project leader to create your high tech robot puppet.
Grades: 5-8
Anatomy & Art
Learn the anatomy of the human body by drawing its skeletal and muscular systems. Through the rendering of images and 3D models, learn the names and functions of various muscles and bones. Studying the different types of joints, you will examine simple motions like bending the arm at a hinge joint and more complex motions like how we walk, run, jump, and dance. Compare and contrast human anatomy to that of other animals and learn how to accurately and artistically represent those forms. Whether you aspire to become a medical doctor or a fashion designer, this class is ideal for anyone fascinated by the artistic phenomenon that is the human form.
Grades: 5-8 Additional Supply Fee: $25
ARTrithmetic
Math is everywhere- even in works of art; masterpieces use mathematical concepts such as measurement, pattern, symmetry, and balance. In this class you will use your imagination and creativity in a variety of artistic activities. Learn how to utilize measurements and shapes to create optical illusions. Discover the secrets of M.C. Escher by making your own tessellating patterns. Explore the magic of line design and how to turn perfectly straight lines into curves. Find out about all of these mathematical art techniques and more.
Grades: 2-3, 4-6 or 6-8
Computer Graphic Art & Design
Design your own CD labels, greeting cards, stamps, book covers, or art posters. Using hi-tech drawing and design software, you will turn your ideas into graphically artistic designs. Work with a computer drawing tablet like an artist’s paintbrush to control the computer’s drawing and painting tools. Projects will combine computer technology with painting, coloring, and collage to create bold and beautiful new designs. Along the way you will gain important computer skills, learn design fundamentals, and develop art techniques.
Grades: 3-5 or 6-8 (PC Computer Lab with color printer required)
Creating with Photoshop
Photoshop is powerful software that can be used to transform ordinary photos into extraordinary images. Whether you are a Photoshop beginner or digital graphics power user, you will learn the ins and outs of creating images with a computer as you build your digital portfolio. Learn how to blend images with layer masks, correct common photo flaws, change a photograph into a painting, or animate the image.
Grades: 4-6 or 6-8 (PC Computer Lab with color printer required)
Digital Nature Photography
Connect with nature and learn about photography. This course is an introduction to nature photography using digital cameras. Learn the basic controls on your digital camera and tips to enhance pictures using different functions such as ISO, aperture, and shutter speed. We will discuss composition, lighting, and perspective and learn how to best capture an image regardless of the lighting or weather conditions. In addition to improving your camera skills, you will also learn how to save, edit, and print your photographs. At the end of the course, you’ll be presented with finished prints of your favorite images. School or students must provide cameras.
Grades: 3-5 or 6-8 Additional Materials Fee: $25 (Computer lab with color printer)
Electronic Music Making
Learn to create music with FL Studio, a powerful and flexible computer program that lets you build any music you can imagine note by note. You’ll learn how to make a beat, how to craft harmony, and how to build interest that hooks listeners into your song. You’ll experiment with sampling, mixing and equalizing. Since you are building your music note by note, you’ll learn music theory as well. Finish with an online release of your musical creation. Musical experience will be helpful but is not required.
Grades: 6-8 Additional Materials Fee: $25 (Computer lab required)
Food for Thought
How does the choice of local organic veggies vs. fried zucchini impact our health, local economy and even the world? Through writing and acting, you will learn persuasive messaging and marketing strategies to represent your favorite and perhaps not so favorite foods (like brussel sprouts). This class will teach you group writing and presentation skills, theater improvisation, and how to “physicalize” your ideas to create original food commercials and talk shows. We will discuss food choices, traditions, and needs across culture. “Lettuce entertain you” with this unique performing arts experience.
Grades: 3-5 or 6-8
Go Fly a Kite
Apply your math skills of measurement and calculation to build artistic kites that really fly. Learn how kites work, what shapes are most desirable, and why kites need tails and strings. Explore the elements of color and design to decorate your kite so that it looks as good in the sky as it does on your bedroom wall. Build a wind measuring tool and finally test fly your kite.
Grades: 2-3, 4-6, 6-8
Additional Materials Fee: $45
It’s Not Rocket Science
What happens when science and theater meet? Explore the inner workings of scientific principles like gravity, propulsion, E=mc2, or why the sky is blue, then translate your learning into dramatic scenes. Make sense of the solar system, habitats, or the water cycle through theatre. Create and perform original scripts about scientific discoveries, principles, and concepts.
Grades: 2-3, 4-6 or 6-8
Musical Physics
Explore the physics of sound through music. This class will reveal how music is based on physics concepts such as waves, reflections, modes and harmonics. You will learn why a trumpet sounds like a trumpet and not like a flute, and why you can play a melody on a xylophone but not on your kitchen table. By the end you’ll be making your own instruments out of whatever you can find! Musicians and scientists alike will see how their work collides.
Grades: 5-8
Non Fiction Picture Books
Illustrate your knowledge of tsunamis, wildfires, or even coastal habitats in a mock children’s book. Work with a non fiction author/ illustrator to gain basic skills in storyboarding, drawing, perspective, composition, and page layout to demonstrate your knowledge of different scientific or engineering concepts. The class begins with coming up with an idea for the book and then learning how to present that idea to an editor. In a picture book, the text takes shape at the same time as the images on storyboards; view professional examples of these and learn how much research and revision goes in to making the artwork and text be as accurate as possible. By the end of the class you will have created a storyboard, an outline of text, and completed a simple drawing to add to your portfolio.
Grades: 5-8 Additional Supply Fee: $50
Math & Architecture: Greek Origins
Travel back in time to ancient Greece when mathematics, art, and architecture combined to create buildings of lasting splendor. Employing a compass and straight edge, you will create plans for columns using the ancient Greek Orders of Architecture. Mathematical investigations will include some of Euclid’s most fascinating geometrical theorems and proofs. As you immerse yourself in Greek culture, you will explore Greek design patterns and use them to decorate your columns with interlocking circles, waves, spirals, and the ever popular egg and dart patterns that symbolize the beginning and end of life.
Grades: 4-5 or 6-8 Additional Materials Fee: $25
Math Artistry
Use your imagination and creativity in a variety of artistic activities as you learn and apply math concepts such as symmetry, fractions, decimals, number patterns, and measurement. Projects could include making a class quilt or designing and painting tiles.
Grades: 1-3 or 4-6 Additional Materials Fee: $25
Stop Motion Animation
In Stop Motion Animation class you will sculpt a 3D pose-able puppet, paint backdrops, create scenery, and develop and shoot a short story animation sequence with your puppet as the star. Add a soundtrack to top it all off. Technical video and computer animation skills will be expanded through the use of the Stop Motion Animation program Dragon or i-Movie.
Grades: 4-6 or 6-8 Additional Materials Fee: $50 (Room with sink and no carpet preferred)
Wildlife Illustrations
Train your eye and hand to express yourself in simple but powerful ways. Using pencil, ink, charcoal and markers, create portraits of the animals of North America. Learn techniques for shading, contouring and perspective to help you create depth and proportion in your drawings. Step by step instruction, including animals in motion will be covered. You will choose from a variety of animals that are native to North America and learn about the habits and habitat of each species that you draw, from a spider to a large mammal.
Grades: 3-5 or 6-8 Additional Materials Fee: $25 (Room with a sink)
Instructors: - Erin Berzel
- Nancy Coffelt
- Randi Douglas
- Stephanie Foster
- Caren Graham
- Laura Jones
- Eileen Kane
- Amy Konsterlie
- Jim Mattingly
- Taylor Morrison
- Edwin Pilobello
- Darin Schmidt
- Laura Sams
- Robert Sams
- Dia Varano
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