2018-2019 Infusion Classes

Optical Illusion Art

Grades: 3^rd – 6^th

Instructor: Jessica Schumacher

This course will teach students how to hand draw several different optical illusions using precision, various mathematical tools, and creativity. You will create amazing pieces of art while becoming a master of math tools, including protractors, compasses, and rulers. A challenge to math and art minds alike!

Edison Robots: Build & Code

Grades: 3rd – 6th

Instructor: Lisa Honstein

Learn to code Edison robots to perform a wide variety of tasks. Coding programs are designed for beginners, inter-mediate, and advanced learners. Use the blocks to build the code, variables to adjust the code, and try writing code us-ing provided examples to enhance your learning. Design your Edison using Legos ®, cardboard or other creative item to contribute to your culminating project.

Heroes & Villians: The Foundation of a Myth

Grades: 3rd – 6th

Instructor: Layne McCaleb

This course will examine the gods, goddesses, monsters, heroes, and stories that make up Greek mythology. We will read stories about how the Greeks believed the earth was created, why the seasons change, and why people do the things that they do. Take a deeper look into these myths and how they have influ-enced us today, along with vocabulary from the Ancient Greeks that has made its way into the words we use today.

Creative Adventure Writing

Grades: 4^th – 7^th

Instructor: Dana Pachner

Students will author an adventure story under the creative nonfiction genre. Writers will practice their entertaining skills while remaining true to their story line learning to reflect on their personal experiences. Writing exercises will place emphasis on expanding vocabulary, using active voice, and concise sentences.

Robotics through Coder Z

Grades: 6^th – 9^th

Instructor: Laura Loutensock

Students will be introduced to robots and writing computer code with CoderZ, a self-paced online class for programming virtual robots. This program will teach students to solve robotics STEM problems using Blockly, a simplified system of writing code, and also provides a Java code preview. In addition to completing the lessons with CoderZ, students will interact with discussion and reflection upon the coding classes.

Digital Design

Grades: 9th – 12th

Instructor: Amie Bulman

Students will be introduced to the world of computer sci-ence and contemporary design. Students will explore cod-ing and design through video game design, graphic art, phone app development, and more. This course will pro-vide students with an introductory lesson in a wide range of concepts and skills focused on using computer science to create.

Poetry and Creative Writing (Intro)

Grades: 8th – 12th

Instructor: Andrew McFayden-Ketchum

This course is about learning to write in the genres of po-etry and fiction through an examination of techniques, through experimentation, and through an inquisitive in-vestigation into your individual voices. You won’t be asked or expected to duplicate the “masters” of these genres, but will instead be asked to do a fair share of inventing writing, or “mastering” of the forms from your own unique perspectives, experiences, stories, and language.

Advanced Creative Writing

Grades: 8th – 12th

Instructor: Andrew McFayden-Ketchum

Explore the deeper ideas presented in Poetry and Creative Writing, the development of expression with individual voice. This course will help you understand yourself as a write, develop a sense for where good writing originates, and challenge you to expand your vision, your subject matter, and mature your writers or artistic sensibility. This class will focus on the inventing, the doing, and the revising of writing, not on being “done.”