8 SUMMER ACTIVITY GUIDE 2021
UNCOVER THE PAST & PRESENT AT LOCAL MUSEUMS! Summertime is a time for exploration. It’s a time for exploring the outdoors and sitting around the campfire with those you love. It’s a time for discovering a new hobby you can enjoy with your friends, and it’s a time of exploring the world we live in through engaging activities and lessons. Every museum around provides programming that helps engage children with the wealth of knowledge they offer, from discovering how rockets work to indepth classes on drawing and other art mediums. Your local museums serve up the perfect mix of engaging and fun activities that help stimulate learning through summer camps. Check out some of the camps and activities offered by museums right here in the community.
Museum of the Rockies
The Museum of The Rockies offers an extensive list of summer camps for students entering grades first through eighth. Most camps are five days and run from 9 a.m.- 3 p.m. Monday-Friday. The first camp
begins June 21 for grades first through fifth. After that, each week is a different camp with a different theme. The first camp available for grades sixth through eighth begins July 6. Children entering first and second grade can attend the Junior Paleontologists camp, where they learn everything about paleontology and get the chance to build a mini exhibit for display in the museum. Are fossils and rocks not thrilling enough for you? Kids can take a row through Nordic culture, conflict, and exploration during the brand-new Vikings camp. Ready to explore outer space? Head to NASA’s unofficial boot camp through the Astronauts-In-Training, where kids can learn how rockets work and how humans can live in space long term, offered the week of June 28 - July 2. While middle schoolers have fewer options with camps only available in July, there’s still plenty of fun and
learning available. The first week for junior high kicks off with the Vikings camp followed by Backyard Ballistics. But, don’t worry parents, no explosives will be involved in camp this year. Potato launchers, you ask? No promises there … Registration for any age group is open at https://museumoftherockies. org. MOR offers camp scholarships for those needing financial assistance. The application for scholarships is online. Additional information about camp dates and pricing is also available on the web or by calling 406-994-2251.
Montana Science Center
With a total of 10 camps available to elementary school students, the Montana Science Center has you covered if you’re hoping to take a more methodical approach to learning this summer. The first camp begins the week of June 14, and the weekly camps continue through the week of Aug. 23, with each camp having a different theme. Camps are held Monday through Friday from
9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Montana Science Center camps provide STEAM-based learning – Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math, that is. City 3021 kickstarts the summer and focuses on planning and designing cities of the future. Kids in this camp can look forward to putting their wits together to build a model of a future metropolis. Keep it sly with the third camp of the summer, Spy Camp, where campers will practice the art of espionage and learn what it takes to be a spy. Note: This is what they don’t show you in Spy Kids, so it will be worth your time. Campers will even get a chance to create spy gadgets. Looking for something with less surveillance and wiretapping involved? Check out the science center’s Storybook Steam camp, where campers will explore classic folktales like Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Billygoats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs, and more! Campers will get the chance to investigate these stories through team-building
