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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Dig Into Dinos | PreK-1st |
Let's Bee Coders | PreK-1st |
Ready, Jet, Go! | PreK-1st |
Dig Into Dinos | 1st-3rd |
Let's Bee Coders | 1st-3rd |
Science Alive | 1st-3rd |
Wind Tubes, Chemical Excitement, Slime Science | 1st-3rd |
Liftoff: Engineering Rockets and Rovers | 3rd-5th |
Light Up the Night | 3rd-5th |
Science Alive | 3rd-5th |
Wind Tubes, Chemical Excitement, Slime Science | 3rd-5th |
Creative Contraptions | 6th-8th |
DNA, Thrill Ride, Scribbling Machines | 6th-8th |
Mack Trucks Manufacturing Club | 6th-8th |
Outbreak Alert! | 6th-8th |
Uncharted Waters: Modeling Household Water Recycling | 6th-8th |
Creative Contraptions | 9th-12th |
Medical Lab | 9th-12th |
Thrill Ride, Scribbling Machines, KEVA | 9th-12th |
Uncharted Waters: Modeling Household Water Recycling | 9th-12th |
Dig into the bigger picture of scientific evidence and interpretation with everybody’s favorite extinct animals—dinosaurs! We’ll explore how paleontologists piece together bones, footprints and trace fossils to flesh out these amazing creatures. Kids will build earth layers, move (and chew) like dinosaurs, use evidence to identify different dinosaur species, flesh out a dinosaur and much more! Kids will also learn about the extinction event that ended the dinosaurs and gave rise to mammals.
Students will work collaboratively to define problems and design solutions using a Bee-Bot® programmable floor robot. Solve mazes, produce art, and retell stories using coding, programming, and engineering. These activities are designed to challenge students’ observational and analytical skills while working toward a common goal in an inclusive, creative, and fun environment.
Blast off into science and engineering during this multi-week series based on the PBS Kids curriculum, “Ready, Jet, Go!” Students use powers of observation, prediction, collaboration, and creativity to solve engineering challenges as they prepare for a simulated space launch! These astronauts in training design a spacesuit, test rockets, and explore the planets in the multimedia approach to the engineering design process.
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Dig into the bigger picture of scientific evidence and interpretation with everybody’s favorite extinct animals—dinosaurs! We’ll explore how paleontologists piece together bones, footprints and trace fossils to flesh out these amazing creatures. Kids will build earth layers, move (and chew) like dinosaurs, use evidence to identify different dinosaur species, flesh out a dinosaur and much more! Kids will also learn about the extinction event that ended the dinosaurs and gave rise to mammals.
Students will work collaboratively to define problems and design solutions using a Bee-Bot® programmable floor robot. Solve mazes, produce art, and retell stories using coding, programming, and engineering. These activities are designed to challenge students’ observational and analytical skills while working toward a common goal in an inclusive, creative, and fun environment.
Can insects see colors? What’s inside an owl pellet? What type of animal am I? In this multi-session exploration of life students will uncover what makes something “alive” and investigate what has allowed certain organisms to adapt and evolve with the Earth’s changing conditions. Science Alive! participants will investigate the variety and abundance of living things found here on Planet Earth.
Wind Tubes– Students use everyday materials to build and test objects to launch inside a 6-foot wind tube!
Chemical Excitement– Students gain knowledge about matter and chemistry as they mix substances together, make predictions, and observe what happens.
Slime Science– Students compare and measure the properties of slime by manipulating variables to make two different slimes to take home with them!
Join our Jet Propulsion Laboratory to learn how to engineer rovers that can be used to explore faraway worlds. Learn all about the trade-offs and variables involved in engineering a rocket as we blast off to the International Space Station. Kids will engineer rockets and rovers to help future astronauts explore several planets and moons in our solar system.
Join India and Jacob – a fictional, world-traveling brother and sister duo – on an adventure in Iceland and help design a display for the annual Light Festival! Participants in this multi-week series will take part in a variety of engineering activities as they explore everything from basic circuits that can turn on LEDs, to how different materials change the appearance of light. Students will use their creativity and knowledge of electrical engineering to design a light display that replicates the colors and patterns of the Northern Lights.
Can insects see colors? What’s inside an owl pellet? What type of animal am I? In this multi-session exploration of life students will uncover what makes something “alive” and investigate what has allowed certain organisms to adapt and evolve with the Earth’s changing conditions. Science Alive! participants will investigate the variety and abundance of living things found here on Planet Earth.
Wind Tubes– Students use everyday materials to build and test objects to launch inside a 6-foot wind tube!
Chemical Excitement– Students gain knowledge about matter and chemistry as they mix substances together, make predictions, and observe what happens.
Slime Science– Students compare and measure the properties of slime by manipulating variables to make two different slimes to take home with them!
Creative Contraptions is all about accomplishing simple tasks in the zaniest and most complicated ways imaginable! Explore cause-and-effect relationships using common objects and materials. Create a chain reaction contraption that triggers sequential events in fun and surprising ways. These activities promote large-group participation and teamwork to set and accomplish goals.
Do you have what it takes to build the biggest rigs on the road according to the standards of real Mack Truck technicians and engineers? Participants in this multi-session program will work alongside Science Center educators to try recreating the components found in Mack Trucks using littleBits electronics. Take on the role of an industrial engineer and develop ways to make the process faster and better!
Can you engineer a solution to a biomedical challenge? In this multi-session program, participants learn about the engineering design process and careers in medicine and biology. They will learn how biomedical engineers solve healthcare problems and work together to improve the field. Explore how diseases spread, engineer an antiviral for a contagious virus, create public service announcements, and consider how to prevent an outbreak from becoming a pandemic.
Become a water resource engineer as you investigate the problem of water scarcity! Using the Engineering Design Process, participants design and develop an efficient way to collect and filter household waste water for reuse in this engaging simulation of a real-world problem.
DNA– Students practice lab techniques as they extract the DNA from a strawberry.
Thrill Ride-Students design and re-engineer their own marble coaster in this exciting exploration of roller coaster physics. Students investigate variables, forces, and energy while working in a team to meet specific design challenges.
Scribbling Machines*– Students use household items to engineer a scribbling machine that creates colorful, unique, and expressive art!
*with take home materials: additional $6 per student
Creative Contraptions is all about accomplishing simple tasks in the zaniest and most complicated ways imaginable! Explore cause-and-effect relationships using common objects and materials. Create a chain reaction contraption that triggers sequential events in fun and surprising ways. These activities promote large-group participation and teamwork to set and accomplish goals.
Calling all future medical students! Here is an adventure designed just for you. The Medical Lab after-school program explores many aspects of the medical profession, including microbiology, epidemiology, anatomy, and clinical practice. In this multi-session program, participants take part in dissections and will even get a chance to take a look inside a human body as they explore digestion with Cyndi our Synthetic Cadaver!
Become a water resource engineer as you investigate the problem of water scarcity! Using the Engineering Design Process, participants design and develop an efficient way to collect and filter household waste water for reuse in this engaging simulation of a real-world problem.
Thrill Ride-Students design and re-engineer their own marble coaster in this exciting exploration of roller coaster physics. Students investigate variables, forces, and energy while working in a team to meet specific design challenges.
Scribbling Machines*– Students use household items to engineer a scribbling machine that creates colorful, unique, and expressive art!
*with take home materials: additional $6 per student
KEVA-Students engage in games and exercises using KEVA planks to explore building in a new way. Students attempt to build the tallest towers, build connecting bridges, and even ancient structures with the precision hand-cut building planks.
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