Home School Explorations Series

Home School Explorations Series

For K–2nd graders (ages 5–8 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

Chemical Changes

MON Sept 29 /TUES Sept 30

What’s the difference between a physical change and a chemical change? How do simple mixtures differ from chemical changes? Students explore these differences and investigate several fascinating chemical changes.

Fruit or Veggie?

MON Oct 6 /TUES Oct 7

We’ll dissect different fruits and vegetables to find out what’s inside. Then, we’ll make colorful fruit and vegetable prints to take home, assemble our own snacks and more!

Animal Defenses

MON Oct 13 /TUES Oct 14

Explore a variety of strange and unusual ways animals defend themselves. Then, design your own animal with special characteristics to help it survive.

Light and Shadow

MON Oct 20 /TUES Oct 21

Discover different ways to make shadows as we investigate light by bouncing and bending it, explore shadows and shadow shapes, and experiment with colored light and colored shadows.

Taking Flight

MON Oct 27 /TUES Oct 28

Investigate how air interacts with materials to make them float and fly. Experiment with floating balloons, make simple gliding toys, and construct your own kite. 

Playful Pendulums

MON Nov 3 /TUES Nov 4

Explore pendulums and chaotic motion. We’ll play with pendulums that draw in the sand, pendulums that paint and much more.

Pebbles, Sand and Silt

MON Nov 10 /TUES Nov 11

Roll up your sleeves and get ready to sort rocks, explore clay, dig in sand and look for living material in soil as we investigate these natural materials.

Switch On, Switch Off

MON Nov 17 /TUES Nov 18

Turn things on and off as you explore open and closed circuits. Investigate a variety of switches and much more. Make your own firefly to take home that turns on and off with a switch.

Discovering Triangles

MON Nov 24 /TUES Nov 25

It’s time to give triangles the attention they deserve! In this exploration students discover the different kinds of triangles and their importance. They also use triangles to build three-dimensional objects and begin to explore the perimeters and areas of these objects.

Round and Round

MON Dec 1 /TUES Dec 2

Square wheels, triangle wheels, or circles wheels? Investigate different wheel shapes to see which one makes the “best” wheel. Test your car on a variety of surfaces to see how different they affect the rolling ability of your car.

Register Online

Activities 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