Aprendamos Ciencias: El Club de los Científicos

Do you love Science? In this Ongoing Class, learners will explore a different scientist, inventor, engineer or explorer each week in a fun and interactive way. This course aims to provide meaningful learning experiences for young scientist.

Each class will include a range of teaching methods and activities that are designed to engage the learners in both a hands-on and minds-on way. Classes will include experiments, Q&A, quizzes, games, worksheets, songs, videos and much more.  Learners will be encouraged to observe, explore, question and share what they learn. A variety of methods are used to support learners and cater for different learning styles and needs. 

What is taught in this course?

Week of 31/3/25 - William Smith (Strata)
Week of 7/4/25 - Inge Lehmann (The Earth's Core)
Week of 14/4/2025 - Carl Linnaeus (Organising Living Things)
Week of 21/4/2025 - Mary Shelley (Robots)
Week of 28/4/2025 - Nicholas Appert (Preserving Food)
Week of 5/5/2025 - Albert Einstein
Week of 12/5/2025 - Orville and Wilbur Wright (Aircraft)
Week of 19/5/2025 - Timothy Berners-Lee (World Wide Web)
Week of 26/5/2025 - Ada Lovelace (Computer Programming)
Week of 2/6/2025 - Archimedes (Float or Sink)
Week of 9/6/2025 - Lorenzo Langstroth (Beekeeping)
Week of 16/6/2025 - Rosalind Franklin (DNA)
Week of 23/6/2025 - Katherine Johnson (Rockets)
Week of 30/6/2025 - George Washington Carver (Botany)
Week of 7/7/2025 - Charles H. Turner (Invertebrates)
Week of 14/7/25 - Charles Kao (Fibre optics)
Week of 21/7/25 - Kusala Rajendran (Seismology)
Week of 28/7/25 - Mae C. Jemison (Astronauts)
Week of 4/8/25 - Tu Youyou (Malaria)
Week of 11/8/25 - Galileo Galilei (The Telescope)
Week of 18/8/25 - Alexander Graham Bell (The Telephone)
Week of 25/8/25 - Marie Curie (Radium and Radioactivity)
Week of 1/9/25 - Ibn al-Haytham (Light)
Week of 8/9/25 - Alexander Fleming (Penicillin)
Week of 15/9/25 - Amelia Earhart (Air Travel)
Week of 22/9/25 - Robert Falcon Scott (Polar Regions)
Week of 29/9/25 - Mary Anning (Paleontology)

Please note, this course can be taken in additional to the Ongoing Science and Geography classes. Although some themes may look similar, material, classes and learning objectives are different.