Classroom Programs

Wee Engineers

Four sessions available.

Empower your preschoolers to discover their inner problem-solvers! 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

Bots for Tots

Five sessions available.

Challenge your students to define problems and design solutions using a Bee-Bot® programmable floor robot. Students will use coding and programming to practice letters, colors, numbers, and more. These activities are designed to challenge students’ observational skills while working toward a common goal in an inclusive, creative, and fun environment.

Eco Explorers

Five sessions available.

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.

The Secret Life of Seeds

Six sessions available.

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!

Let's Bee Coders

Six sessions available.

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.

Career Pathways: Be A Chemist

Five sessions available – Only available after September 16.

Do you want to explore the world of chemistry careers? Through this program you will explore five unique careers as you discover what it means to be a chemist. You will design safe personal care products using ingredients found in nature, analyze substances to solves mysteries, create stronger and stretchier slime for a new toy, design and control chemical reactions to create new products, and clean polluted water to make it safe for people and the environment!

Note: This program was designed by the Franklin Institute through the GSK Science in the Summer program.

Paws of Attraction

Six sessions available.

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

Science of Soccer

Four sessions available – Only available after September 16.

Soccer, like many sports, is all about motion. As players dribble, pass, block shots, and score goals, they’re using the motion of their bodies to control the motion of the ball. And wherever you have moving objects, you have physics! The difference between tapping the perfect back-heel pass and driving home a penalty kick lies in understanding the forces at work on the ball: friction and momentum, angle and trajectory.

Note: This program was designed by the Franklin Institute

Music to My Ears: An Acoustical Engineering Challenge

Six sessions available.

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.

Career Pathways: Be a Space Scientist

Five sessions available.

Do you want to be a space scientist? Through this program, step into the shoes of five different careers in the world of space science and start your journey to discovering your career pathway. You will design a rover’s arm to scoop up soil and rocks, observe soil samples and discover if it contains something alive, design a rocket to fly as far as possible, study the surface of Mars to plan where future astronauts might go, and design a spacesuit that protects astronauts from radiation and micrometeoroids!

Note: This program was designed by the Franklin Insititute through the GSK Science in the Summer Program

Career Pathways: Be a Health Scientist

Six sessions available

Interested in becoming a healthcare professional? Explore five unique careers in the world of healthcare all while enhancing your ability to think like a scientist and engineer. You will create an exercise plan for members of a soccer team, design a tool to clear blocked arteries, investigate vitamin C content in common beverages, use a model to explore and prevent the spread of disease, and test a stabilization device for a broken bone!

Note: This program was designed by the Franklin Insititute through the GSK Science in the Summer Program

Career Pathways: Medical Mystery

Six sessions available.

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 human body, order tests, and dissect organs to figure our her diagnosis!

*This program was co-developed with Physicians and Staff from Lehigh Valley Health Network

Artemis Water Challenge

Six sessions available.

Artemis Water Challege is an active, real-world focused STEAM program designed for middle school students, concentrating on how we find, use, and recycle water on the Moon. NASA’s Artemis mission is bringing astronauts, including the first woman, back to the Moon for the first time since 1972. Students explore astronomy and engineering while building problem-solving and collaboration skills as they work on an ambitious project: reusing water in an extreme lunar environment. It’s a perfect way to bring space science to life in the classroom and spark interest in future STEAM careers. Based on Water in Extreme Environments by PLANETS.