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Join us for our NEW homeschool programs. Students will learn about a variety of topics ranging from biology, geology, chemistry, and physics to technology, engineering, robotics, & forensics. Join us weekly, monthly, or just pick your favorite topics, but register today because space is limited and programs sell out quickly!
Onsite workshops will be limited to a maximum of 15 participants to allow for social distancing. Families with multiple children are encouraged to reduce the number of adults in the classroom. Only one adult chaperone per family may stay in the classroom. Due to space limitations, non-participating students cannot be accommodated in the classroom. Member families may have another adult member in the museum exhibit areas with additional child non-participants. All children in the museum must be supervised by an adult at all times.
Cost
Each Class: $15 member /$24 non-member (1 child + 1 adult)*
Ages 5-8: Mondays, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Ages 9 -14: Mondays, 10:00 AM– 12:00 PM
*Includes Admission into the museum.
Cancellation and Refund Policy
All classes require a minimum of 5 participants and have a maximum of 15 participants. The IMAG reserves the right to cancel classes that have not met our minimum enrollment. The registration/payment deadline for each class is the Friday prior to that class. Parents may accompany their child in the workshop or explore the IMAG, but must be onsite. No substitutions are permitted. If the IMAG cancels a class, participants will receive a full refund. If a participant cancels a registration, they will receive a full refund if it is 30 days prior and 50% if it is at least 7 days prior. Any cancellations less than 7 days before a class will not receive a refund or credit towards another class
Homeschool Makers' Club
Cost: $15 member – $24 non-member (1 child + adult)*
*Includes Admission into the museum.
New this year at the IMAG; we are offering a Makers’ Club just for Homeschool Students on the second Monday of each month from 10:00 am-12:00 pm.
Homeschool students will learn how to use Fab Lab equipment, such as the 3D Printer, Vinyl Cutter, and Laser Cutter, and have time to work on projects of their choice. The club’s purpose is to teach Homeschool Students skills they can continue to work on at home.
Staff will be available to teach new skills and assist with projects students are working on during club hours.
Membership
Become a Member!
Consider purchasing an IMAG membership to enjoy discounts on homeschool classes, birthday parties, and more!
Visit our Membership page for more information.
Homeschool Schedule
January: Chemistry
1/10/22 Ages 5-8: States of Matter
Students will explore physical and chemical changes while learning about the three states of matter through fizzy, foamy, and messy experiments.
Ages 9-14: Action/Reaction
Learn about chemical reactions and how changing one or more variables in your experiment can totally change the outcome through hands-on chemistry experiments!
1/17/22 Homeschool Makers’ Club: STEAM – Making Art Using the Vinyl Cutter and Laser Cutter
We will be making stencils, stamps looms, and more using the vinyl cutter and laser cutter to make winter-themed art projects!
1/24/22 Ages 5-8: Cryo Chemists
Explore the colder side of chemistry through hands-on experiments with ice, dry ice, and liquid nitrogen!
Ages 9-14: Fire Chemists
Learn about the fire triangle, fire safety, and combustion as you make colored flames, create spinning fire tornadoes, and more.
March Animals/Jr. Keepers
3/7/22 Ages 5-8: Jr. Aquatics Keepers
Learn about our stingrays, sea stars, fish, eels, and more through an extended touch tank session, a special meet the keeper session at the Mohawk tank, and hands-on activities.
Ages 9-14: Aquatics Keepers
Go behind the scenes at The IMAG and learn how we care for our aquatic animals. Learn how to prep food, test the water in our tanks, make an aquaponics system, and more!
3/14/22 Homeschool Makers’ Club: 3D Printer Class 1
Learn how to use our 3D printers and create 3D projects in Tinkercard.
3/28/22 Ages 5-8: Critter Keepers
Learn how to take care of some of our Animal Ambassadors through special Meet the Keeper sessions; help feed some of our animals, and provide enrichment activities for them!
Ages 9-14: Jr. Keepers
Go behind the scenes at The IMAG again and learn how we care for our reptiles and amphibians! Learn how to prep food, help feed some of the animals, and more!
May: STEAM Olympics
5/2/22 Ages 5-8: Catapults, Rockets, and Airplanes… Oh My!
Compete in fun, STEAM-based challenges using catapults, rockets, and airplanes! Who can launch their baking rocket the highest? Who can send their airplane zooming the furthest? Find out in the individual STEAM Olympics!
Ages 9-14: Mini Sphero Olympics
Compete in silly, fun challenges using mini Spheros! Program your Sphero to complete different challenges, race through a maze, and complete a task!
5/9/22 Homeschool Makers’ Club: Open Lab
Use the skills you have learned in previous workshops to make a fun end-of-the-year project on the laser cutter or vinyl cutter!
5/16/22 Ages 5-8: Land, Air, and Sea!
Compete in teams in a fun, STEAM-based challenges using paddleboats, stomp rockets, and balloon cars!
Ages 9-14: Science Lab Escape Room
Work in teams to see who can escape the Science Lab first by solving STEAM-based challenges!
February: Physics
2/7/22 Ages 5-8: Rubberband Car Racers
We will learn about potential and kinetic energy, Newton’s Laws of Motion, and friction as we build and race rubberband cars!
Ages 9-14: Magical Magnets
Explore the amazing properties and uses of magnets as we use their attraction and repulsion to make a pencil levitate, use them to generate electricity, and more!
2/14/22 Homeschool Makers’ Club: Valentine’s Projects
Use your laser cutting skills to design and make special Valentine’s projects to take home!
2/21/22 Ages 5-8: Simple Machines
Learn about the importance of simple machines as
Ages 9-14: Impossible Equilibrium & Erupting Inertia
Explore the properties of physics through wild, silly, and seemingly impossible experiments!
April: Rockets
4/4/22 Ages 5-8: Fizzy Rockets!
Learn about chemistry, physics, and engineering as you build and launch Alka seltzer rockets, Baking soda rockets, and pressurized water rockets!
Ages 9-14: 3,2,1…Launch!
Design, build and launch chemical rockets hundreds of feet in the air!
4/11/22 Homeschool Makers’ Club: 3D Printer Class 2
Use your skills from Class 1 as you design and print a fun project like a Star Wars figurine, a Mars Rover, and more!
4/18/22 Ages 5-8: Rocket Scientists
Work as a team to design, build and launch chemical rockets!
Ages 9-14: Egg-cellent Launchers
This class puts a new twist on the egg drop engineering experiment! Build and launch a specially designed rocket that will hold an egg. Let’s see if we can get our egg to land safely!
