Arlington Community Education

Join in entertaining and educational science experiments to gain an understanding of physics including Newton’s first, second, and third laws of motion, Newton’s law of gravity, and more. We'll make boats and rockets, make and play with marble runs and catapults, and experiment with many other fun physics projects.

Explore the amazing places animals live and build cool models that move and act just like they do. Work with your friends to create awesome designs while learning fun facts about animals and their habitats. It’s all about building, exploring, and having a blast—let’s discover the wild side together!

Join in on some coding fun. In this self-driven and self-paced course, we will use Scratch Jr., CodeSpark, and code.org to explore coding and programming concepts that will bring computer screens and inventive ideas to life. All junior coders are welcome.

Join the Plantmobile Garden Club! Learn the basics of botany and biology while creating art and science projects relating to the wild world of plants. Grow plants and track their progress, sow seeds, create plant-based art projects, and use microscopes to get up-close and personal with plant anatomy. We’ll talk about where and how plants grow, take a closer look at some of our plants’ best friends, insects and worms, and dig into how they all work and communicate together.

Immerse yourself in the world of Avatar the Last Airbender while tackling the complexity of coding concepts. Using Minecraft as your canvas, you’ll harness the power of the four elements—air, water, earth, and fire—by modifying the game’s underlying code. Create powerful objects and abilities that don’t exist in the game. Learn Java programming to build mods from the ground up and “hack” the game through your creativity and problem-solving.

Invent and design sport-themed projects. Build soccer fields and teams, golf courses with golfers, and olympic games including contenders. By applying basic physics concepts, you will understand how to bring your LEGO inventions to life.

Let your imagination run wild. Build projects such as trains, helicopters, and treehouses with thousands of LEGO. From building robots and engineering structures to creating simple machines and conducting experiments, this class will inspire you to look at LEGOs in a whole different way.

Seeing is believing—explore the world of science through your own eyes. Watch what happens as you combine colors and chemicals to create your own rainbow slime, layered density tubes, and shimmering salt crystals. You’ll also dissect and reconstruct a flower, then showcase your discoveries in a cool nature box you make to take home.

Explore the world of scientific discovery as you create a lava lamp, engineer a race car, or make a ping pong ball hang in the air. You may stir up invisible ink, create a volcanic eruption, or build a Newton’s Cradle. We’ll discuss the development and application of various scientific principles and build our science vocabulary using illustrations and handouts that you can use to recreate your experiments at home.

How did you do that?! Explore fascinating science “magic” as we make water disappear, grow glowing cubes, and reveal beasts that expand to 800 times their size. Create shimmering crystals that grow on a piece of paper. Watch colors change before your eyes and make objects move using the power of science.