Home School Explorations Series

Home School Explorations Series

For 3rd–5th graders (ages 8–11 years), at Explora


Fall Semester: September 29 - December 2, 2025

Be curious, discover, experiment!

Overview:

Explora’s Home School Explorations Series offers your child a semester of weekly, 75 minute-long experiential science, technology, and art programs. Each Exploration is facilitated by Explora educators. These are 75 minute-long, materials-rich classes that actively engage every child in inquiry activities. In these classes, children will make discoveries in science, technology, engineering, art, and math through questioning, experiencing, and investigating. Children will be encouraged to build their own knowledge and cultivate skills such as observation, creativity, critical thinking, cooperative learning, communication, and innovation as they explore a different topic each week. Class topics change each semester.

Choose one day/time:   

  • Monday, 1pm-2:15pm 
  • Tuesday, 10:30am-11:45am 
  • Tuesday, 1pm-2:15pm

Registration Fee

Explora members* $125 per child per semester
Non-members $140 per child per semester

Join & Save! Explora members get discounts on semester programs, camps, and admission all year!

Register now for Fall Semester 2025!

1. Online: Select a session day and time to register online
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2. Call the Reservations office at 505‐600-6734 or e‐mail reservations@explora.us.

Explora’s Camps & Programs

Explora educators develop activities with children’s developmental levels in mind. Your children will have the opportunity to learn from, and work with older and younger peers and make new friends.

Registration/Information

  • You can register online
  • Please have the following available when you register: emergency contact name and phone numbers; name of alternate adults who can pick up the child; child’s medications, dosages, and physician’s name; child’s insurance information, as well as any allergy or special needs information for your child.
  • If you need assistance, please contact reservations at reservations@explora.us or 505-600-6734 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm).

Cancellation Policy

  • If a cancellation is received more than 5 business days before the camp, a refund will be issued for the amount minus a 15% administrative fee.
  • Cancellations received 5 business days or fewer before the camp will not be refunded.
  • Full fees will be refunded if Explora cancels a program

Fall 2025 Explorations Schedule

Fall 2024 Explorations Schedule

September 29 - December 2, 2025

Roller Coaster Bonanza

MON Sept 29 /TUES Sept 30

Roll over hills and through valleys and tunnels as you explore how balls roll on tracks. Put your skills to use as you design your own roller coaster!

Forced into Action

MON Oct 6 /TUES Oct 7

Set up opportunities and materials for students to experience the “relative” nature of motion and discover the “rules” as to how things move.

 

Clues and Codes

MON Oct 13 /TUES Oct 14

Take on the challenge of solving intricate cyphers. Armed with logic, teamwork, and creativity, decode messages, unlock hidden clues, and race against the clock to escape and crack the code! 

Pigments of your Imagination

MON Oct 20 /TUES Oct 21

Combine chemistry and art to create your own paints and create a painting. Paint is a compound; experiment with combining different substances to make a variety of paints.

Mobiles: Twisted but Balanced

MON Oct 27 /TUES Oct 28

Investigate the concept of balance from balancing yourself to balancing objects. Investigate the concept of counterbalance as you try to get objects to balance and then create your own Alexander Calder inspired mobile. 

Make an Impression

MON Nov 3 /TUES Nov 4

Create and carve your own stamp! Leave with reproducible artwork that you can print on clothes, cards and more.

The Heat is On

MON Nov 10/ TUES Nov 11

Watch hot little molecules in action! We'll use natural tendencies, along with some dramatic experiments, to understand how molecules transfer heat through conduction, convection, and radiation.

Facts of the Matter

MON Nov 17 / TUES Nov 18

Atoms in motion—fast or slow—determine the states of matter we know. We’ll use liquid nitrogen (-320° Fahrenheit) and other materials to explore the properties of solids, liquids, and gases.

Discovering the Wonders of Nature

MON Nov 24 /TUES Nov 25

How is a beak’s shape related to its function? Can you tie your shoes without your thumbs? We’ll use our greatest survival tool—our brains—to discover how adaptations help us survive and make us who we are. 

Science of Soap

MON Dec 1 / TUES Dec 2

Adults are always telling you to wash your hands, so find out why as you explore bathroom science.  Explore the spread of germs, test different soaps, and make your own hand cleanser.

Class topics vary from semester to semester. For more information about this program please contact our Reservations office.

Phone: 505-600-6734

Email: reservations@explora.us

Para información en español, llame al 505-600-6734