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Summer Children’s Programs

Get a real behind-the-scenes museum experience! You will learn from scientists, incredible collections of artifacts and specimens, and a great team of educators at the Burke Museum on the beautiful University of Washington campus.

Burke Summer Camps 2012

REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW!

Register online here.

For more information about Burke Summer Programs, contact Burke Education.
Phone: 206-543-9681
E-mail: burked@u.washington.edu

Read descriptions and accounts of past summer programs.

Children at summer program
Photo by Diane Quinn

Half Day Camps For Children Entering Kindergarten & 1st grade

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Little Dinos! ~ For students entering grades K-1

Session 1: July 9-13           

Session 2: July 23-27

9 am-12 pm (drop-off 8:45 am; pick-up by 12:15 pm – extended care unavailable)

Cost: $200/10% discount for Burke Members or UW ID

Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, T.rex, oh, my!

Hold a real dinosaur tooth! Practice being a paleontologist with a real fossil-hunter.

Full Day Camps for Elementary Students

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Dinos! ~ For students entering grades 2 - 3

Session 1: June 25-29      

Session 2: August 6-10

9:30 am -4:00 pm*

Cost: $300/10% discount for Burke Members or UW ID

Do you love dinosaurs? Are you ready to be a Junior Paleontologist?

Join the Burke Museum to explore the time of dinosaurs and what it was like when giant reptiles roamed the Earth.  In this hands-on camp you will touch real fossils, search for Jurassic plants, make your own fossil cast, and much more!

 

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Dr. Mossbreath’s Mystery ~ For students entering grades 4 - 5

July 16-20

9:30 am – 4:00 pm*

Cost: $300/10% discount for Burke Members or UW ID

The mysterious Dr. Mossbreath is back, sending us on another search through the museum’s wonderful behind –the-scenes collections.  Follow maps, peer through microscopes, and discover clues inside and outside the museum.  Where will the clues lead?  Join us for the next mystery.

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Archaeology Camp: One Day Program for students entering grades 4 - 6

Session 1: July 2                  

Session 2:  July 5

9:30 am – 4:00 pm*

Cost: $50/ 10% discount for Burke Members or UW ID

As a junior archaeologist you will learn about Washington State archaeology by investigating real-life artifacts from the museum collections and practicing archaeological skills in a day packed with hands-on fun!

Full Day Camps for Middle School Students

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Photographing Nature ~ For students entering grades 6 - 8

July 9-13

9:30 am – 4:00 pm*

Cost: $375/10% discount for Burke Members or UW ID

The 2012 International Conservation Photography Awards exhibit will be our inspiration as we explore Burke collections and the surrounding UW campus. Find nature in the most unusual places and develop your attention to detail, color, lighting, and photo composition. Practice makes perfect, so bring a digital camera you are familiar with or borrow one of ours.  

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Girls in Science ~ For girls entering grades 6 - 9

Session 1: July 23-27 For girls entering grades 6-7

Session 2: July 30-August 3 For girls entering grades 8-9

9:30 am -4:00 pm*

Cost: $375/10% discount for Burke Members or UW ID

Girls in Science offers a special opportunity for girls to practice hands-on science with real UW scientists.  Visit labs and scientists at the Burke Museum and on the UW campus. Learn what it takes to be a scientist, perform real scientific procedures yourself, and find out about discoveries that scientists are making today that will affect our lives in the future.


*Extended Day Care

Drop-off begins ½ hours before camp start times. Pick-up must be 15 minutes after camp end time or fee may result. Extended Day Care is available until 5:00pm for Dinos!, Dr. Mossbreath’s Mystery, Photographing Nature, Archaeology Day Camp, and Girls in Science camps. The cost is $10 per day.  Discounts do not apply to Extended Day Care.