Chemicals, Cells & Crime Description

Chemicals, Cells & Crime (CCC)

Mad Science introduces you to life in the form of cells and organs and to how the science behind life can help you solve a crime! Discover the secrets behind batteries and design marshmallow molecules! Conduct electricity and power a Mad Science whirligig. Experience blood pumping through the heart and air moving through the lungs. Use ooey-gooey ingredients to build a model cell & use your own traits to decode & decipher your DNA.

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Daily Themes

Cell City

Take a fantastic trip into cell city.  Learn about cells and the different parts within them.  You will compare the parts of a cell to a real city as you investigate its different functions. Build your own take home model cell out of unique materials. 

The Organ Trail

Do you know the recipe for a healthy body?  You will after you journey down the Mad Science Organ Trail.  Come to camp and meet "Tall Paul"!  Paul is a torso model that can have his organs removed and replaced.  Paul’s brains, bones, lungs, heart, and digestion systems will all be investigated.  Make a gutsy apron and a model lung to take home. 

Scene of the Crime

Team up with fellow campers to solve the “Ice Cream Caper” crime.  Arrive at camp to find a real crime scene surrounded by crime scene tape.  Walk the grid and collect evidence to solve the crime.  All of your observation skills will be needed as you use your new magnifying glasses and notebooks to record your evidence. 

Chemical Counting

Get ready for a day in the Mad Science Laboratory!  Turn a lemon into a battery.  Experiment with electrochemical reactions, as you electroplate a penny and a nickel.  Learn how chemical elements help you to create chemical compounds.  Put your new chemistry know-how to work as you make your own brain goo“!

Radical Reactions

Ready, set, reactions!  Learn with hands-on reactions that matter is never created or destroyed.  Make a rainbow and a chemical clock in a cup.  Experiment with chemical bonds and whirligigs as you discover conductivity.  Make your own invisible ink.

Order of activities may vary

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