Notice: We are temporarily closed as we move locations. Visit the new Da Vinci Science Center at PPL Pavilion beginning May 22.
Standards-based classroom programs can be single-day, multiple-day, semester-long, or summer experiences held in schools or community locations.
Classroom Programs | Grades |
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Wee Engineers | PreK |
Eco Explorers | K-2 |
The Secret Life of Seeds | K-2 |
Bubble Bonanza: Engineering Bubble Wands | K-2 |
Paws of Attraction | 3-5 |
Made in America | 3-5 |
Music to My Ears: An Acoustical Engineering Challenge | 3-5 |
Medical Mystery | 6-12 |
Picture an Eclipse | 6-12 |
Apex Innovators | 6-12 |
Kinetic Sculptures | 6-12 |
Empower your preschoolers to discover their inner problem-solver! Engage with hands-on challenges that use familiar materials in creative ways. Explore science concepts like forces of nature, loud and soft noises, and balance and motion. Become an expert engineer by looking closely at the world around you and figuring out how to make it better.
Note: This program was designed by the Museum of Science
Available beginning June 1
Plants and animals need your help to keep their environment clean! Engage in hands-on activities to learn the art of reducing, reusing, and recycling in a fun and accessible way. Work with your friends to engineer and design reach tools and compost bins to help clean and restore our local habitats.
There’s a wild and wonderful world right outside your window, waiting to be discovered. Dive deeply into understanding how plants depend on animals and their environments to survive. Work with your friends to build a model to determine how animals help disperse seeds. Put your designs to the test through our brand new animal obstacle course and take home seeds you can plant in your yard or local park!
Become a professional bubble-ologist! Create your own unique bubble solution and engineer bubble wands of different shapes, sizes, and materials. How do you think this will change how your bubble looks or behaves? Bubble-ologists will apply what they learned to create a bubble show performed for their friends!
Note: This program was designed by the Museum of Science
Available beginning June 1
The dog shelter needs our help! We’ll create doors that let the dogs in…and keep other critters out. Using magnets in their designs, students will explore attraction, repulsion, and relative strength. This workshop combines physics, the engineering design process, problem-solving, and peer collaboration.
Note: Based on Engineering Magnetic Dog Doors developed by Youth Engineering Solutions/Museum of Science, Boston
Can you hear me now? Get ready to become the sound engineer for a new and upcoming artist, YOU! Figure out how sound works through a series of hands-on experiments. Build instruments and amphitheaters to amplify your music. Head to the recording studio to combine your knowledge and creativity to put on the best show ever!
Note: This program was designed by the Museum of Science
Real tools. Real parts. Real technicians and engineers. Learn what’s so cool about making things and how things are made in the USA. Train to become a technician assembling electrical parts and become an engineer designing an assembly line. Learn the role of teamwork, communication, and creativity in manufacturing careers and work together to make a fun final product.
Available beginning June 1
Nina needs your help! Nina, a local 15-year-old, is having some mysterious symptoms. Take on the role of a physician as you analyze patient charts, experiment with our synthetic cadaver, order tests, and dissect organs to figure our her diagnosis!
Inspire out-of-this world creativity while you use the artistic lens of photography to figure out how eclipses work. Develop a model of the solar system while you answer questions like, “What are eclipses, why do they happen, and how can I see one?” Prepare to celebrate and capture these awe-inspiring, life-changing events happening in your neighborhood in 2023 and 2024!
Got problems? Take a bite out of ’em! Combining innovation, curiosity, and creativity, we’ll dive into invention and get our heads swimming with ideas. Turn your idea into a fin-tastic prototype to test and refine. Then be prepared to pitch your prototype to your friends! After hearing the pitches, your friends will have the chance to ‘invest’ in the most delicious inventions. Jump into our business tank and swim with the sharks…if you dare!
Experience Da Vinci-style curiosity as we create beautiful, interactive, moving masterpieces using Hummingbird Bit Kits! Bring your sculptures to life by combining your knowledge of block coding and robotics with creativity and artistic expression. Learn about other kinetic art and the engineering-artists who created them. Impress yourself and your friends with your final creation!
Guest Experience
3145 Hamilton Blvd. Bypass
Allentown, PA 18103
A travel fee will be applied to all programs held at locations more than 50 miles round trip from the Da Vinci Science Center.
Da Vinci Science Center at PPL Pavilion
815 W. Hamilton Street
Allentown, PA 18101
Opening May 22, 2024
Mon-Sun 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Directions & Parking
This project was financed by a grant from