Montville Recreation Department

The Montville Recreation Department will be sponsoring SUMMER SCIENCE CAMPS for Ages 6 to 11.

CHEMICAL MAGIC - MAGICAL MICROCOPES - ROCKS and MINERALS will be offered Monday through Friday: August 15th to 19th from 9:00am to 12:00pm. Learn to make batteries from fruits or potatoes. Make a fantastic crystal tree. Work with invisible ink. See the happy and sad balls. Work with our powerful magnets. Look at our prepared slides using our microscopes. Learn about the different types of rocks and minerals from our interesting rock and mineral collection. Be a chemical detective. Make glob from glue. Use paper chromatography to separate colors. Make dirty pennies turn clean and clean pennies turn green. Everything will be explained to you so you can go home having learned some interesting science. Hands-on science is the best way to learn. Do it the Sciensational way!

CAN YOU DIG IT? FOSSIL HUNT—DO YOU DIG DINOSAURS? will be offered Monday through Friday: August 15th to 19th from 12:45pm to 3:45pm. Archaeology and Paleontology seem like big words to kids. Now Sciensational Workshops for Kids makes them come alive. Each child will partake in a simulated fossil excavation, uncovering the different bones of a dinosaur. Each child will then assemble the bones to form a completed 3-dimensional dinosaur to be taken home. We will bring the excavation tools, labels and specimen bags. We will use our geological time and fossil charts. You will make a plaster fossil replica of an ammonite, Tyrannosaurus rex tooth or choose from other molds. You'll identify 20-million year old shark's teeth and see other fossil replicas such as, a cave bear tooth, an ammonite, a Tyrannosaurus rex tooth or a dinosaur egg etc. See and work with our rock and mineral collection. Be a rock hound and identify different rocks and minerals. See and hold our giant pumice rock specimen - it’s from Mt. St. Helens. Come join Sciensational Workshops for Kids. It'll be fun and educational.

NOTE: Students taking BOTH classes should bring a bagged lunch!

Camps will be held at the Montville Community Park Field House located at 130 Change Bridge Road in Montville.

Instruction is provided by Sciensational Workshops for Kids, Inc. Staff.

The cost is $149.00 per person per 5 (five) day camp.

For specific program details please contact the Recreation office at: 973-331-3305 OR visit our website at: http://www.montvillenj.org/RecFlyers