Sunday Academic Enrichment Program
Garfield Elementary School • Multi-Purpose Room
ImpACT volunteers are committed to serving as a community of supportive mentors. Many of these children do not have opportunities to engage in meaningful hands-on learning in subject areas that would not only help in their academic endeavors, but would also provide valuable life skills. We are dedicated to providing materials and service of the highest caliber in order to add to the students’ enrichment.
New Schedule!
Starting October 28, 2012
Garfield Elementary School
Multi-Purpose Room
10:30am-1:30pm
First Dismissal @ 11:50am
Final Dismissal @ 1:30pm
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Upcoming Curriculum
Tornados, Hurricanes and Tsunamis
Objective: Ever wonder how natural disasters happen? Join us as we explore tornados, hurricanes and tsunamis. Description: Gaze in awe in how tornadoes, hurricanes and tsunamis are formed. We will look to the distinctions between meteorological causes and their fundamental principles and simulate these natural disasters with fun demonstrations including: hurricane in a bottle, tsunami making box, and fire tornado.
Nature & Ecosystems
Objective: Giving students front-row seats to experience the diversity of the natural world, teaching them the basics of ecosystems. Description: This four-week lesson gives the students front-row seats to experience the diversity of the natural world, teaching them the basics of ecosystems: their structure, major characteristics, and the complex interactions between plants and animals within them. During each week, students explore one of the major types of ecosystems - temperate forest, tropical rainforest, savanna, and desert - and the relevant habitats, learning the names of significant plants and animals and witnessing first-hand the feel of each ecosystem through hands-on demonstrations and exhibits. At the end of each lesson, games and activities reiterate the unique features of each ecosystem so that the students have concrete examples with which to remember them.
Architecture
Present students with a general idea of the cultural, aesthetic and structural driving principles behind the design of architectural space and buildings. Students will be presented with different cultures and how their ways of life such as values and culture play a role in how they shape a space. Availability of resources in relation to environmental adaptations also shows the students the different ways in which materials can be used to shape spaces and how that in turn create a building. They will be presented with various activities that will allow them to understand materials used in construction and the importance of working in a team. They will be building different types of bridges so that they can see how material shapes function and vice-versa. In order for them to understand how architecture is shaped from human activities and adaptation they will create a pop up card of a house and what a home means for them. This will show how architecture is not about what we built but what drives the building from within which is a place for human habitation and living.Past Curriculum
Around the World
Objective: Understanding different cultures and lifestyles helps develop a sense of gratitude for what we have, and is necessary for showing compassion to those who are less fortunate. Description: Students will be introduced to the cultures and lifestyles of people in other parts of the world, as well as the conditions these people must overcome in order to survive. Through these lessons, students will learn to be grateful for what they have, and to show compassion for others who are less fortunate. At the end of this series, students will make fun Thanksgiving crafts to express their gratitude.
Animation
Animation. It's the medium where great stories are told and yet how does it work? In this class, we take a look behind the scenes to learn that it is an illusion of motion created through a series of still images shown in quick progression. We broke down an animated clip of a bouncing ball into its component frames, or snapshots, to observe what exactly is happening at a particular moment. Applying what we learned, we each made our own flipbooks, creating our own animated stories from scratch.