Tucson Education Guide

After School Activities

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  Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure

  Tombstone

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  Looking for a way to turn Tombstone into a giant game board? Urban Adventure Quest has created an interactive scavenger hunt that combines the fun of the Amazing Race with a three-hour sightseeing tour of Tombstone with a wild-west theme. Guided from any smart phone, groups make their way among well-known and overlooked gems of the city, solving clues and completing challenges while learning local history. The scavenger hunt adventure begins in the heart of this famous western town and takes you on a well-designed course to historic saloons, theaters and of course, the O.K. Corral. This mini Quest tour requires approximately 1 mile of walking. Using a smart phone as "the guide" allows participants to start when they want and determine their own pace of play. Stop to watch a shoot-out, or grab a refreshing sarsaparilla to wet your whistle... why not, it's your schedule? Offered at a fixed price for a group vs. per person pricing, this city tour/game offers a great value to those on a budget. (less) ... Read more

  20% off Amazing Urban Scavenger Hunt

  Use Promotion Code: FGCOUPON when you register on-line at www.UrbanAdventureQuest.com to receive 20% off your family fun Adventure. Available 365 days a year from sunrise to sunset! Turn …

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  Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure

  Tucson

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  Looking for a way to turn Tucson into a giant game board? Urban Adventure Quest has created an interactive scavenger hunt that combines the fun of the Amazing Race with a three-hour sightseeing tour of Tucson. Guided from any smart phone, groups make their way among well-known and overlooked gems of the city, solving clues and completing challenges while learning local history. The scavenger hunt adventure begins in the heart of the city and takes you on a well-designed course through famous parks, cathedrals, historic hotels, theaters and the El Presidio. The tour requires approximately 2 miles of walking. Using a smart phone as "the guide" allows participants to start when they want and determine their own pace of play. Stop for a famous bacon wrapped Sonoran dog or grab an ice cream... why not, it's your schedule? Offered at a fixed price for a group vs. per person pricing, this city tour/game offers a great value to those on a budget. (less) ... Read more

  20% off Amazing Urban Scavenger Hunt

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  City of Buckeye Recreation

  Buckeye

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  Before & After School Enrichment (B.A.S.E.) Program ages Kindergarten - 8th Grade

     The B.A.S.E. program provides a safe and exciting place for children enrolled in Kindergarten - 8th grade, to be in out-of-school time. Our creative programming will enhance self-confidence, self-expression, social skills and cognitive skills while keeping youth physically active. B.A.S.E. is located on Buckeye elementary school campuses and is state licensed, regulated by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Program sites are open on early release days; however are closed on national holidays or when the school campus is closed. Program accepts DES funding; if fee assistance is needed please contact the Department of Economic Security at 623-925-0095. (less) ... Read more

  Save 20% Off Summer Camps at Buckeye Recreation Center

  Enter the code SUMMER18 to save 20% on Summer 2018 registration for the Summer Rec Program (not valid for all-day licensed program or preschool)

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  Engineering for Kids - East Valley

  Engineering for Kids - East Valley

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  MINECRAFT MODDING CLASS

     Engineering for Kids is currently offering a weekly class to children ages 9-14 that will give them the tools and skills they need to concoct their own mods for Minecraft. They'll get to create new and unique items, change the settings of the game world, and activate their own mods to completely alter how the game runs. Your child will even be able to take his or her mods home each week and show them off to you! Your child will need a Minecraft Java Edition account and can be purchased separately from Mojang. This account can be logged into any computer with Java Edition on it, so there's no need to bring a tablet/laptop to camp each week. Java Edition ensures we have the most flexibility in what we can offer and do with your child, all on a secure, private network. The six-week class will meet each Saturday from 9:00am to 10:45am at Makutu's Island Chandler (6919 W Ray Rd, Chandler, AZ 85226) beginning January 20, 2018. Price is $160 for the entirety of the six weeks and includes entry into the Makutu's Island fun park each Saturday. This price is promotional is will increase to $200 after December 18, 2017! As the beginning date nears, we will be periodically updating this page to include videos and photos including information about the class. (less) ... Read more

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  Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation

  Scottsdale

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  Combining creativity with academic relevance, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation's innovative Summer Art and Architecture Camps give students the opportunity to think and work outside the box. Located at Taliesin West, Wright's winter home and desert laboratory, the camps will encourage students to explore, create, and design in the significant setting. Students will see how their unique ideas can have a true impact on the world around them, as they engage in the fun and educational activities.

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  MOTHER NATURES FARM

  Gilbert

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  The farm entrance fee is $10.00 per child, this includes an OZ pumpkin, an individual bag of stickers for decorating your pumpkin, the air bounce, a hayride, straw bounce, feeding the animals and Alexander's Adventure Maze. Adults are $5.00 to tag along and ride the hayride. Bring a picnic lunch and your friends. We have picnic tables, grassy fields, big shade trees and PLENTY of room for the kids to be kids! Food is available at Maneau's Munchies; hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones, drinks and much more. We also provide school tours. School tours start October 1st, 2017 and end October 31st, 2017. Please schedule online tours fill up fast. Tours are held Monday through Friday from 9:00 to 3:00. If you book a group of 20 children or more the cost is $8.00 per child and $3.00 per adult, does not include a tour guide. If you book a tour of 25 children or more it will include a tour guide. You also have the option to go with 1 pumpkin per child and NO stickers for $6.00. (less) ... Read more

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  Outward Bound

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  For 50 years and with more than 1 million participants, Outward Bound continues to lead the way in outdoor adventure-education for youth and adults. With locations throughout the United States and Internationally and over 500 courses to choose from, your perfect adventure awaits! Outward Bound programs emphasize personal growth through experience and challenge in the wilderness. Students develop self-reliance, responsibility, teamwork, confidence, compassion, as well as environmental and community stewardship. Courses range in length from four days to three months, for ages 12 to 45+. Activities include backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing, mountaineering, white water rafting, sailing, dog sledding, skiing and much more. Scholarships are available. (less) ... Read more

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  Play-Well TEKnologies

  Multiple Phoenix Metro Locations

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  LEGO Afterschool Activities with Play-Well TEKnologies

     What can you do with over 20,000 pieces of LEGO? In our Engineering with LEGO enrichment program, take on real-life engineering challenges. In our classes, explore concepts in physics, architecture, mechanical and structural engineering. Find inventive solutions in a fun-filled context that supports the growth of young minds through hands-on, minds-on learning.

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  Steam and Robotics

  Multiple Locations

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  Robotics Classes and In-School Field Trips!

     This unique program is a moving Art project, where children 7 to 12, build unique Art projects that are animated. Each project incorporates visual designs that the student arranges as their own creation and through a variety of devices ensures that this sculpture moves. Our unique Dynamic Art program combines art and technology while challenging your child to explore the relationship of these ideas. Through this program your child will be given the experience of making moving sculptures. Artists such as Alexander Calder used this method for his ceiling mobiles, which are seen all over the country. Each child will be given the opportunity to explore their creativity while incorporating the exciting elements of technology. Through the use of motors, gears and pulleys your child will learn how to turn their art to an exciting new level. They will be making beautiful and fun unique sculptures that exist as art and decorative objects. This class will challenge the functionality of the creative process as well as being fun and rewarding. It is more than your basic children's art class. Each kit contains motors, batteries, and circuits, which are essential to making moving sculpture as well as fun art tools such as construction paper, pipe cleaners, felt, pom poms, and googly eyes. All these items work together to create unique moving pieces of art and your child will closely examine the partnership between engineering and art. (less) ... Read more

  PARENTS AND TEACHERS: START YOUR OWN SUMMER CAMPS

  Any State, Any City, Set up your own summer camp by renting eight 16 robots for 2 weeks. Call this number for more information: 972-811-4386. GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS! ANYONE CAN DO IT!…

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  Therapeutic Ranch for Animals and Kids

  Tucson

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  TRAK is a not-for-profit program available to the youth of the Tucson community who are with or without specific challenges. The focus of the program is to offer participants the opportunities to provide service to people of all ages and animals of the community. Participants will receive specific skills and training that will aid in their efforts to help themselves, each other and their community. Our mission is to serve and strengthen the community through animal interaction. We offer: Volunteer programs, internships, lessons, trail rides, summer camps, parties/events. For more info please check out our website at www.traktucson.org

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  Wildcat Art

  Tucson

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  Wildcat Art is the 8 week long Saturday art program offered every spring, by the University of Arizona School of Art. Now in its 20th year, Wildcat Art classes are structured to encourage students to explore ideas and issues through contemporary (digital media, installation, performance) and traditional art media & practices (drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, design). Experiences are designed specifically for students at each age/grade level from kindergarten through adolescence (K-12). Classes are taught by advanced and graduate art & visual culture education students, in collaboration with art & visual culture education faculty. (less) ... Read more

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  Young Rembrandts

  Tucson

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  Wondering about Drawing Class offerings in Tucson? Most of our Young Rembrandts classes are held at local elementary schools as an after school, parent funded program! At most locations, we run our classes all school year long in six to eight week sessions. We also offer Christmas/holiday drawing camps and summer drawing camps! Gift certificates are available.

Field Trips

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  Arizona State Parks & Trails

  Phoenix

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  Arizona's Top Attraction - Kartchner Caverns

     Kartchner Caverns is a stunning limestone cave in Southeastern Arizona and boasts many world-class features that have been protected since the cave was discovered in 1974. The cavern has been surveyed at 2.4 miles long. Kartchner is a wet, "live" cave. Water percolates from the surface and calcite features continue to grow in the darkness. The park offers two cave tours where you'll see dynamic structures such as stalactites dripping down like icicles and giant stalagmites reaching up from the ground, sometimes meeting to form a massive column. The caverns are host to a wide variety of unique minerals and formations. The park includes a Discovery Center which houses world-class exhibits, a large gift shop, regional displays, and educational information about the caverns and the surrounding landscape. There are also campgrounds, hiking trails, shaded picnic areas, a vending area, and an amphitheater. Reserve online or call (877) MY-PARKS. You can call seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. MST. To make same day cave tour reservations (based on availability) please call (877) MY-PARKS. (less) ... Read more

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  Steam and Robotics

  Multiple Locations

  Steam and Robotics

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  Robotics Classes and In-School Field Trips!

     This unique program is a moving Art project, where children 7 to 12, build unique Art projects that are animated. Each project incorporates visual designs that the student arranges as their own creation and through a variety of devices ensures that this sculpture moves. Our unique Dynamic Art program combines art and technology while challenging your child to explore the relationship of these ideas. Through this program your child will be given the experience of making moving sculptures. Artists such as Alexander Calder used this method for his ceiling mobiles, which are seen all over the country. Each child will be given the opportunity to explore their creativity while incorporating the exciting elements of technology. Through the use of motors, gears and pulleys your child will learn how to turn their art to an exciting new level. They will be making beautiful and fun unique sculptures that exist as art and decorative objects. This class will challenge the functionality of the creative process as well as being fun and rewarding. It is more than your basic children's art class. Each kit contains motors, batteries, and circuits, which are essential to making moving sculpture as well as fun art tools such as construction paper, pipe cleaners, felt, pom poms, and googly eyes. All these items work together to create unique moving pieces of art and your child will closely examine the partnership between engineering and art. (less) ... Read more

  PARENTS AND TEACHERS: START YOUR OWN SUMMER CAMPS

  Any State, Any City, Set up your own summer camp by renting eight 16 robots for 2 weeks. Call this number for more information: 972-811-4386. GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR KIDS! ANYONE CAN DO IT!…

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Schools

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  Child Care Resource & Referral

  Tucson

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  Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) meets a need that no one else does - providing the bridge between parents, providers, community leaders, and policymakers about anything related to child care in Arizona.

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  Hermosa Montessori School

  Tucson

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  Hermosa Montessori School is a private Tucson preschool and a tuition-free public charter school for kindergarten, elementary, and middle school students. Hermosa is a school community of lifelong learners that integrates Montessori education with Arizona Academic Standards to foster self-motivated, moral, social and environmentally responsible individuals.

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  International School of Arizona

  Scottsdale

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  Join us this summer at the International School of Arizona for our 2018 Summer Camp. Our Tiny Travelers (Ages 2-5) and Active Adventurers (Age 6-12) will spend the summer learning all about world exploration and language through arts and crafts, educational activities, outdoor recreation, and so much more; in full immersive French or Spanish! Choose from one to five adventure packed weeks: WEEK ONE: June 11-15th - Stomp It Up! Music & Movement WEEK TWO: June 18-22nd - Tinkering Playground WEEK THREE: June 25-29th - Zootopia WEEK FOUR: July 9-13th - Culinary Week WEEK FIVE: July 16-20th - Ocean Commotion Register online today by visiting our website : www.isaz.org INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARIZONA 9522 E SAN SALVADOR DR SCOTTSDALE AZ 85258 (480)874-2326 (less) ... Read more

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  More Than Modeling

  Scottsdale

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  Holidays Camps for Kids! More Than Modeling teaches life skills through modeling classes in a week long day camp during school holidays for 5-15 year olds in Scottsdale and Phoenix. We cover how to pose and walk the runway, fashion and beauty. Hidden lessons in nutrition, science, geography and math are also part of the curriculum so your child gets a great education whilst having fun! We also offer: Weekly modeling classes Modeling parties Etiquette and life coaching sessions Private modeling classes Our mission is to provide camps and classes which help build confidence and teach life skills which will better prepare children for their futures, whether they become models or not. Our classes are fun, educational and affordable. (less) ... Read more

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  St. Alban's Preschool & Kindergarten

  Tucson

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  St. Alban's Preschool maintains a child first curriculum. We believe children learn by doing. Our teachers encourage children to challenge themselves mentally by selecting self-guided activities that build upon their current knowledge.

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  St. Thomas Preschool & Kindergarten

  Tucson

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  St. Thomas Preschool and Kindergarten, in partnership with family and school, promotes lifelong learning founded in Christianity through a safe and creative, and spiritual learning environment that nurtures the whole child.

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  Sunshine School In Oro Valley

  Tucson

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  Sunshine School In Oro Valley

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  Since 1984, Sunshine School has loved and educated 3-, 4-, and 5-year old children in the northwest Tucson neighborhoods. We are a group of educators who offer children a wide array of activities in the areas of cognition, social development, and life skills. Classroom and centers' lessons are taken from our curriculum but presented to suit the needs of individual children. Visits from guest teachers (with lessons in science and Spanish and vocal music and dance, etc) provide Sunshine with an environment rich in educational opportunities. Adults and children work and play and share conversations together. Our goal is to develop competent children who are ready to leave Sunshine with confidence and creativity and respect for one-another. (less) ... Read more

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  Tucson Community School

  Tucson

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  Tucson Community School is a child-centered preschool and kindergarten located in central Tucson, Arizona. As a parent cooperative, TCS was created, built, and maintained by dedicated mothers and fathers who wanted to actively participate in their child's education.

Tutoring

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  College Nannies & Tutors

  Tucson

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  College Nannies offers a complete set of placement and on-call childcare services specifically tailored to the needs of busy families and working professionals. By allowing College Nannies to handle all the details of finding a qualified nanny or babysitter and employing them directly, you can enjoy hassle free childcare with no worries. Having a College Nanny childcare professional in your home is a great way to enhance your family's quality of life.

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  The Tutoring Center

  Marana

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  Our classrooms feature an intense learning environment that combines "The Rotational Approach to Learning" and One-To-One Instruction. Both methods were developed by Edward S.Thalheimer, Ph.D., founder of THE TUTORING CENTER. Our innovative system gives your child far more One-to-One Instruction than he or she will ever receive in a classroom full of children, or even in a small group.