Ready To Learn | Projects | After-School and Summer Learning

With the free PBS KIDS ScratchJr app, kids ages 5-8 can create their own interactive stories and games featuring their favorite PBS KIDS characters. Resources and activities designed for educators to support the use of the app in both formal and informal learning settings can be found at PBS KIDS ScratchJr - Learning Resources. Check out the videos featuring Vegas PBS Ready To Learn Coordinator, Jessica Russell!

Martha Speaks Reading Buddies is an innovative way for kindergarten and upper-level elementary students to increase their vocabulary, develop their self-esteem and social skills, and enhance their love of books and reading.

In the Odd Squad: Be the Agent Camp, Odd Squad kids take on the role of an Odd Squad Agent, solving odd cases and creating useful gadgets by using teamwork, math knowledge, science inquiry practices, the engineering design process, and creativity.

During Sensational Science Camp with Ruff Ruffman, kids ages 5-8 engage in the science inquiry and engineering design processes. The experience integrates video, games, and hands-on activities to provide kids with opportunities to play, build, explore, and learn together.

Vegas PBS STEAM Camp is a web series for children ages 6-8+, designed to bring STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) concepts to life by transporting kids directly to where STEAM is happening in Southern Nevada.  A phenomenon-based question drives each episode’s exploration and the program utilizes community experts, interactive hands-on STEAM challenges (using everyday items) and literacy extensions to support inquiry-based learning and the engineering design process. 

In Ready Jet Go Space Exploration Camp, children ages 5-8 blast off on an age-appropriate space adventure with Jet Propulsion and his Boxwood Terrace friends. The camp curriculum blends science inquiry and engineering design to explore navigation, engineering, force and motion, wheels and axles through playful problem solving.