Develop your mind and body at Science & Sports Camp (S2), a partnership between Lawrence Hall of Science and Cal Youth Camps.
Campers will spend the morning exploring the fascinating world of science at Lawrence Hall of Science, and the afternoon participating in fun and instructional sports activities at the Strawberry Canyon Rec Area. Supervised transportation is provided between each site.
Each week features a theme.
No camp July 3rd
Weekly Themes
Week 1: Sifting Through Science
Students investigate material properties, including those of materials that sink or float; magnetic and nonmagnetic objects; and a sand-and-bean mixture whose elements can be sifted and separated. Campers are involved, hands-and-minds-on, as they sort and classify material objects find, then make masks from those materials. They create stories to explain natural phenomena and learn how ancient people used folklore to explain and represent the natural world. Along the way, the children discuss their work in the significant, real-life context of recycling and the environment.
Week 2: Secret Formulas
Campers investigate the properties of substances as they make their own personal brands of paste, toothpaste, cola, and ice cream. The activities have been carefully designed to convey key science/mathematics skills and concepts, provide highly motivating real-life experiences with chemistry, and build student understanding of cause and effect, central to later understanding of controlled experimentation.
Week 3: Treasure Box
From postage stamps to bottle caps, our precious collections are natural starting points for guided exploration and mathematics activities, and can galvanize discussion of environmental concepts. In this engaging, innovative series of mathematics activities, campers create personal collections of recycled, “found,” and inexpensive objects and investigate their properties, calling many important science and math skills into play.
Week 4: Involving Dissolving
Campers are introduced to the properties of matter. In a series of fun and fluid activities, they explore the ubiquity and properties of liquids using introductory language and simple concepts. They play a classification game, observe how food coloring moves through different liquids, and create secret salad-dressing recipes, create homemade “Gel-o,” colorful disks, and crystals that emerge on black paper to make a “starry night.”
Week 5: Fascination with Science
Campers explore the physical world around them. They feel, hold, weigh, smell, see, touch, and taste. In this camp we focus on the three basic states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas. The camp helps generate definitions and understandings of the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, and apply these definitions and understandings to classification of “challenging substances.”
Week 6: Sifting Through Science
Students investigate material properties, including those of materials that sink or float; magnetic and nonmagnetic objects; and a sand-and-bean mixture whose elements can be sifted and separated. Campers are involved, hands-and-minds-on, as they sort and classify material objects find, then make masks from those materials. They create stories to explain natural phenomena and learn how ancient people used folklore to explain and represent the natural world. Along the way, the children discuss their work in the significant, real-life context of recycling and the environment.
Week 7: Secret Formulas
Campers investigate the properties of substances as they make their own personal brands of paste, toothpaste, cola, and ice cream. The activities have been carefully designed to convey key science/mathematics skills and concepts, provide highly motivating real-life experiences with chemistry, and build student understanding of cause and effect, central to later understanding of controlled experimentation.
Week 8: Treasure Box
From postage stamps to bottle caps, our precious collections are natural starting points for guided exploration and mathematics activities, and can galvanize discussion of environmental concepts. In this engaging, innovative series of mathematics activities, campers create personal collections of recycled, “found,” and inexpensive objects and investigate their properties, calling many important science and math skills into play.
Week 9: Involving Dissolving
Campers are introduced to the properties of matter. In a series of fun and fluid activities, they explore the ubiquity and properties of liquids using introductory language and simple concepts. They play a classification game, observe how food coloring moves through different liquids, and create secret salad-dressing recipes, create homemade “Gel-o,” colorful disks, and crystals that emerge on black paper to make a “starry night.”
Week 10: Fascination with Science
Campers explore the physical world around them. They feel, hold, weigh, smell, see, touch, and taste. In this camp we focus on the three basic states of matter—solid, liquid, and gas. The camp helps generate definitions and understandings of the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, and apply these definitions and understandings to classification of “challenging substances.”
Extended Care : 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Daily Schedule
Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Scholarships are available. Some financial assistance may be time sensitive. Please contact for details.