Field Trip Workshops
Preschool & Pre-K Workshops
Pre-K Workshops
Backyard Buddies (TH)
Learn about some animal and insect friends you can find in our backyard! See like a bee, sip nectar like a butterfly, dig like a tortoise and more! Plus, meet one of our IMAG Animal Ambassadors!
($4 per student)
Storybook Scientists (TH)
- Parts!: Learn about anatomy through this funny storybook and then conduct some silly grossology experiments!
- Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses: Learn how sunlight can affect our eyes and color mixing. Then make a pair of special color mixing glasses of your own!
- Three Little Pigs: Learn about the Three Little Pigs and try to build your own little house that can withstand the wolf’s huffing and puffing!
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear: Read this classic Eric Carle tale and then play a non-screen, interactive coding activity using the animals from the book. Great introduction to the concept of coding!
($4 per student)
Dinosaur Detectives (TH)
Our IMAG team has received a mystery dinosaur! It is up to you to help them figure out what kind of dinosaur it is and give it a name! Learn about different types of dinosaurs, what their names mean, design your own, new dinosaur, and more in this fun, hand-on workshop!
($4 per student)
Tinker Tots (TH)
Put your thinking caps on and tinker in our portable Maker Space! Make a play dough marble maze! Build Lego bridges! Make bubble wands of all shapes and sizes! Every workshop is different!
($4 per student)
Weather Watchers (TH)
Learn about weather and the tools used to observe and predict it through fun, hands-on experiments. Create your own rain, use wind to make a pinwheel spin, make bracelets that change color in the sun, and more!
($4 per student)
Mini Mad Scientists (TH)
Help one of our IMAG Mad Scientists conduct some ooey, gooey, fizzy science experiments! Learn about states of matter; why some things sink and why some float; and more!
($4 per student)
Robotics/Coding: Noodlebots (TH)
Learn what makes something a robot, what kinds of jobs robots do, and make your very own Noodlebot to take home!
($6 per student)
(TH) = Take Home Project Included
Kindergarten & Grade 1 Workshops
Kindergarten & Grade 1 Workshops
Technology (Robotics/Coding): Scrib Bot Adventures
Guide a Scrib Bot through a puzzle maze with your team, draw new paths and connect with other teams, and even create an infinite loop to keep the Scrib moving!
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MAFS.K.CC.2.4, MAFS.K.CC.2.5, MAFS.K.G.1.1
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($4 per student)
Technology (Robotics/Coding): Sphero Mazerunners
Make Mini Spheros zip and zoom through mazes, around obstacles, and other challenges as an introduction to programming.
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MAFS.K.CC.2.4, MAFS.K.CC.2.5, MAFS.K.G.1.1
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($4 per student)
Life Science: Awesome Animal Antics (TH)
Learn about some of the cool, silly and even strange behaviors of different animals that help them survive through hands-on activities. Plus, meet one of our IMAG Animal Ambassadors in a special Meet and Greet!
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($4 per student)
Earth & Space Science: Mini Meteorologists
Learn about the tools that meteorologists use to predict and explain the weather then create funny weather reports using our portable green screen and news station.
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($4 per student)
Earth & Space Science: Fossil Finders (TH)
Become a paleontologist for a day and go on a dig for dinosaur bones and other fossils! Then make a fossil impression to take home.
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SC.1.E.6.2, SC.1.E.6.3
($4 per student)
Earth & Space Science: Solar Science (TH)
Discover the power of the sun as you create changing shadows, make colorful solar bead bracelets, and race UV powered cars.
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SC.1.E.5.2, SC.1.E.5.4, SC.1.E.6.3
($4 per student)
Engineering: Imagination Playground Engineers
Work in teams to build roller coasters, rockets, forts, and more using miniature Imagination Playground Blocks and the app on our iPads!
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MAFS.K.G.2.6
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($4 per student)
Chemistry: Magical Matter (TH)
Grab your safety goggles and learn about the three states of matter through some ooey, gooey hands-on experiments!
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($4 per student)
Physics: Superhero Science (flight, magnetism, light) (TH)
Explore the physics behind super powers by learning about the principles of flight, the power of magnets, and how light can trick our eyes!
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($4 per student)
Maker Workshop: Marble Run Madness
Construct marble runs on giant peg boards using pieces of PVC pipe, scraps of wood, pool noodles, cardboard tubes, and more!
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($4 per student)
STEAM and Reading: Rosie Revere, Engineer (TH)
Learn about Rosie’s awesome inventions and then make your own flying machine inspired by the story!
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VA.1.O.1.1, VA.1.F.3.2
($4 per student)
Science on a Sphere: Guided Program
Work with our Education Team to choose a guided program on a topic of your choice with our new interactive exhibit, Science on a Sphere! Follow the paths of past hurricanes, track sea turtles, explore the volcanoes on one of Jupiter’s moons, see all the phases of our moon, watch land cover evolve and change over time, and so much more!
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SC.K2.CS-CS.4.1, SC.K2.CS-CS.4.2,SC.K2.CS-CS-4.3, SC.K2.CS-CS.6.1, SC.K2.CS-CP.1.1, SC.K2.CS-CP.1.2,SC.K2.CS-CP.1.3, SC.K2.CS-CP.1.4
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SS.K.G.3.3,SS.1.G.1.1, SS.1.G.1.2,SS.1.G.1.4**
** Standards addressed will depend on the focus of the Science on a Sphere program
Recommended SOS Programs for Grades 1-2:
- Intro to Weather: Learn About Clouds, Precipitation, Temperature, Wind, the Sun, and Storms.
- Solar System Tour: Learn About the Earth, Moon, Sun, Phases of the Moon, Mars, Milky Way, and Solar System.
- Animals on the Move: Track Sea Turtles, Great White Sharks, Orcas, Birds, Seals, Butterflies, and More.
($3 per student)
Grades 2-3 Workshops
Grades 2-3 Workshops
Technology (Coding): Bloxel Storybook Artists
Learn how to use Bloxels by using some of your favorite books and Bloxel Story Builder Cards to design video game characters.
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SC.K2.CS-CP.2.2,SC.K2.CS-CP.2.3,SC.K2.CS-CP.2.4, SC.35.CS-CP.2.1, SC.35.CS-CP.2.3,SC.35.CS-CP.2.4
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VA.3.5.1.4,VA.3.5.2.1,
VA.3.5.2.2,VA.3.5.3.1,VA.3.5.3.3,VA.3.F.1.2,VA.3.F.3.2,VA.3.F.3.3
($4 per student)
Technology: Makey Makey Musicians
Use Makey Makey to transform everyday objects into fun, silly, and weird devices! Turn bananas into bongos! Transform a chair into a piano! Use aluminum foil and cardboard to make a guitar! Create a pencil saxophone!
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SC.K2.CS-CP.2.2,SC.K2.CS-CP.2.3,SC.K2.CS-CP.2.4, SC.35.CS-CP.2.1, SC.35.CS-CP.2.3,SC.35.CS-CP.2.4
($4 per student)
Life Science: Animal Ambassadors (TH)
Learn about the physical and behavioral adaptations of some of local animals through hands-on activities and a special meet and greet with one of the IMAG’s Animal Ambassadors!
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($4 per student)
Earth & Space: Storm Chasers
Learn about wild weather phenomena as you make swirling dry ice tornadoes, see lightning spark off a Van de Graff machine, create instant clouds, and more!
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SC.K2.CS-CP.1.1, SC.K2.CS-CP.1.2,SC.K2.CS-CP.1.3,SC.K2.CS-CP.1.4
($4 per student)
Earth & Space: Dino-mite Mystery (TH)
Work together on a mini-fossil dig and use your discoveries to solve a dino-mite mystery!
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($4 per student)
Earth & Space: Space Explorers (TH)
Create a model of the solar system that will fit in your pocket and launch air powered rockets equipped for scientific study!
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($4 per student)
Physical Science: Light Engineers (TH)
Explore the properties of light and use it to create artwork that seems to magically change, make objects disappear, create light sabers that change color, and LASER mazes!
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($4 per student)
Engineering: Mini IMAG Derby
Design, build and test a balloon or magnet powered car- then send your car zipping across the room in a balloon car derby!
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SC.3.P.10.2
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VA.3.5.2.2,VA.3.5.3.1,VA.3.5.3.3,VA.3.F.1.2,VA.3.F.3.2,VA.3.F.3.3
($4 per student)
Chemistry: Che-mystery
Learn how different acids and bases react and solve a fizzy, foamy mystery!
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($4 per student)
Physics: Amusement Park Thrills and Chills
Explore how potential and kinetic energy, forces, and friction affect some of your favorite amusement park rides as you construct marble roller coasters, crash mini bumper hovercrafts, and make rubber band powered carousels spin!
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MAFS.3.NBT.1.2, MAFS.3.MD.2.4, MAFS.3.MD.3.6,MAFS.3.MD.4.8
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($4 per student)
Maker Workshop: Fantastic Flying Contraptions (TH)
Use paper, streamers, balloons, and more to construct unique flying contraptions that will flutter, fly, and float in our tabletop wind tubes!
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VA.3.5.2.2,VA.3.5.3.1,VA.3.5.3.3,VA.3.F.1.2,VA.3.F.3.2,VA.3.F.3.3
($4 per student)
STEAM and Reading: Ada Twist, Scientist (TH)
Follow Ada as she investigates a scientific mystery and then help recreate Ada’s rainbow soda geysers with us!
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($4 per student)
History: COMING SOON!
Science on a Sphere:
($3 per student)
Work with our Education Team to choose a guided program on a topic of your choice using our IPads with our new interactive exhibit, Science on a Sphere! Follow the paths of past hurricanes, track sea turtles, explore the volcanoes on one of Jupiter’s moons, see all the phases of our moon, watch land cover evolve and change over time, and so much more!
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SC.35.CS-CS.6.2,SC.35.CS-CS.6.3
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SS.3.G.1.4,SS.3.G.2.1,SS.3.G.2.2,SS.3.G.2.4,SS.3.G.3.1,SS.3.G.3.2,SS.3.G.4.1**
** Standards addressed will depend on the focus of the Science on a Sphere program
Recommended SOS Programs for Grades 2-3:
- Wild Weather: Explore Clouds, Lightning, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cooking Up a Storm, Drought, Fires, and Floods.
- Solar System Tour: Learn About the Earth, Moon, Sun, Phases of the Moon, Mars, Milky Way, and Solar System.
- G is for Galaxy: Explore our galaxy and tools for exploring it using the alphabet as a starting point.
- Ocean Explorers: Learn About Aquaculture, Coral Reefs, Marine Debris, Ocean Currents, and Waves.
- Animals on the Move: Track Sea Turtles, Great White Sharks, Orcas, Birds, Seals, Butterflies, and More.
Grades 4-5 Workshops
Grades 4-5 Workshops
Technology (Coding): Bloxel Builders
($4 per student)
Grab a challenge card and work as a team to go from card, to board and blocks, to building a video game!
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Technology: Makey Makey Arcade
($6 per student)
Use Makey Makey and Scratch to build a silly arcade! Create a Whack a Mole Game! Make a play dough game controller and play Pac Man! Transform a cardboard box into a buzzing Operation Game!
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SC.35.CS-CS.6.3,SC.35.CS-CP.2.1, SC.35.CS-CP.2.3,SC.35.CS-CP.2.4
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Robotics/Coding: Robot Rover Races
($6 per student)
Work in teams to build and program IMAG Robot Rovers and compete in a rover race!
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Life Science: Awesome Animal Adaptations (TH)
($4 per student)
Learn about physical and behavioral adaptations, food chains and webs, and anatomy as you dissect an owl pellet.
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Life Science: PSI: Plant Science Investigators(TH)
($4 per student)
Become a PSI Agent and identify a mystery plant using your sleuthing skills! Perform a plant dissection, identify characteristics that are shared and unique, estimate its age, determine possible causes of death and the impact on its environment!
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SC.5.L.14.2, SC.5.L.15.1, SC.5.L.17.1
Earth & Space: Mineral Mysteries (TH)
($4 per student)
Conduct rock and mineral tests using streak tests, chemical reactions, UV light exposure and more. Then use your skills to solve a mineral mystery!
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Earth & Space: Orbiting Objects
($4 per student)
Discover what we can learn from orbiting objects in our galaxy as you make moon craters, launch explosive mini rockets, and model gravitational pull by sending little planets spinning into orbit.
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SC.4.P.10.4,SC.4.P.12.1,SC.4.P.12.2,SC.4.E.5.1,SC.4.E.5.2, SC.4.E.5.3,SC.4.E.5.4,SC.5.P.13.1,SC.5.P.13.2,SC.5.P.13.3,
SC.5.P.13.4,SC.5.E.5.1, SC.5.E.5.2,SC.5.E.5.3
Earth & Space: NBC2 Meteorologists-in-Training
($4 per student)
Learn about the importance of the water cycle, create weather reports and forecasts based on data, participate in a Q & A with a NBC2 Meteorologist, and create family disasters plans.
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SC.5.E.7.7
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Engineering: Electric Engineers
($4 per student)
Use Snap Circuits to learn how to build different types of circuits and then create a Snap Circuit Spin Art Machine!
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SC.5.P.10.2,SC.5.P.10.3,SC.5.P.10.4,SC.5.P.11.1,
SC.5.P.11.2
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VA.2.S.3.3,VA.2.O.1.1,VA.2.F.3.2,VA.2.F.3.3,VA.3.5.1.1,VA.3.5.1.4,
VA.3.5.2.1,VA.3.5.2.2,VA.3.5.3.1,VA.3.5.3.3,VA.3.F.1.2,VA.3.F.3.2,
VA.3.F.3.3
Chemistry: Magical Chemistry (TH)
($4 per student)
Use chemistry to create a magic show! Make water disappear with a polymer, conduct an acid-base reaction to make a rainbow appear and disappear, create shapes instantly with special memory wire, and more!
SC.4.P.8.1, SC.4.P.8.2,SC.4.P.8.3,SC.4.P.8.4, SC.4.P.9.1, SC.5.P.8.1,SC.5.P.8.4,SC.5.P.9.1,SC.5.E.7.1
Physics: Bernoulli Basketball
($4 per student)
Explore principles of flight as you play a game of Bernoulli Basketball using beachballs and leaf blowers!
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Maker Workshop: Scribble Bots (TH)
($6 per student)
Make robots from everyday materials that vibrate, spin, and dance to create colorful scribble art!
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SC.5.P.13.1,SC.5.P.13.2,SC.5.P.13.3,SC.5.P.13.4
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VA.2.S.3.3,VA.2.O.1.1,VA.2.F.3.2,VA.2.F.3.3,VA.3.5.1.1,VA.3.5.1.4,
VA.3.5.2.1,VA.3.5.2.2,
VA.3.5.3.1,VA.3.5.3.3,VA.3.F.1.2,VA.3.F.3.2,VA.3.F.3.3
STEAM and Reading: Iggy Peck, Architect (TH)
($4 per student)
Explore the world of architecture and engineering with Iggy Peck and then compete to build the tallest building with some cool, funny, and even weird building supplies!
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MAFS.5.NBT.1.4, MAFS.5.NBT.2.5,MAFS.5.NBT.2.7,MAFS.5.NF.2.3,
MAFS.5.MD.1.1,MAFS.5.MD.3.3,MAFS.5.MD.3.4,MAFS.5.MD.3.5,
MAFS.5.G.2.3
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VA.2.S.1.1,VA.2.S.1.4,VA.2.S.2.1,VA.2.S.2.2,VA.2.S.3.1,VA.2.S.3.3,
VA.2.O.1.1,VA.2.F.3.2,VA.2.F.3.3,VA.3.5.1.1,VA.3.5.1.4,
VA.3.5.2.1,VA.3.5.2.2,
VA.3.5.3.1,VA.3.5.3.3,VA.3.F.1.2,VA.3.F.3.2,VA.3.F.3.3
History: TBD
Science on a Sphere:
($3 per student)
Work with our Education Team to choose a guided program on a topic of your choice using our iPads with our new interactive exhibit, Science on a Sphere! Follow the paths of past hurricanes, track sea turtles, explore the volcanoes on one of Jupiter’s moons, see all the phases of our moon, watch land cover evolve and change over time, and so much more!
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SS.4.G.1.3, SS.4.G.1.4,SS.5.G.1.1,SS.5.G.1.2,SS.5.G.1.3,SS.5.G.1.4,SS.5.G.3.1,
SS.5.G.4.1,SS.5.G.4.2**
** Standards addressed will depend on the focus of the Science on a Sphere program
Recommended SOS Programs for Grades 4-5:
- Wild Weather: Explore Clouds, Lightning, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cooking Up a Storm, Drought, Fires, and Floods.
- Fronts and Forecasts: Learn to identify fronts and learn that the speed and direction in which a front is moving can give you a starting point for predicting weather.
- Our Solar System: Learn About the Earth, Moon, Sun, Phases of the Moon, Mars, Milky Way, and Solar System.
- G is for Galaxy: Explore our galaxy and tools for exploring it using the alphabet as a starting point.
- Ocean Explorers: Learn About Aquaculture, Coral Reefs, Marine Debris, Ocean Currents, and Waves.
- Animals on the Move: Track Sea Turtles, Great White Sharks, Orcas, Birds, Seals, Butterflies, and More.
- Mega Moons: Learn About Moons in Our Solar System: Ariel (Uranus’ Moon), Callisto (Jupiter’s Moon), Dione (Saturn’s Moon), etc.
- Earth Explorers: Learn About Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, Forest Change, Tsunamis, etc.
Grades 6-8 Workshops
Grades 6-8 Workshops
Technology: 3D Printing (TH)
($6 per student)
Work in teams and use TinkerCad to design keychains to print on our 3D printer.
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VA.68.F.3.3,VA.68.F.3.4
Technology(Robotics/Coding): Jimu Robot Dance Party
($4 per student)
Program JIMU Robots to dance, move and play using their PRP (Pose, Record, Play) system and Blocky coding.
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Robotics/Coding: A-Maze-Ing Robots
($6 per student)
Work in teams to build and program Lego Mindstorm Rovers that can complete a maze using coded movements, light sensors
MAFS.7.NS.1.3
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Life Science: Squid or Fish Dissection/Mohawk Feeding
($6 per student)
Learn about anatomy and physical adaptations during a squid or fish dissection. Then experience a special Meet the Keeper session with a live feeding of our aquatic life in the Mohawk Tank.
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Engineering: Bottle Rocket Engineers
($4 per student)
Design, build and launch baking soda and vinegar rockets that can soar higher than our building!
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Engineering: Little Bits Contraptions
($4 per student)
Use Little Bits to design Rube Goldberg inspired contraptions and race to complete a challenge!
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Chemistry: Cryo Chemistry
($4 per student)
Use dry ice to explore the states of matter and chemical reactions. Create bubbling acid-base reactions, launch mini rockets, make smoky bubbles that bounce, and more!
MAFS.6.NS.3.5
SC.7.P.11.1,SC.7.P.11.2,SC.7.P.11.4,SC.8.P.8.1, SC.8.P.8.2,SC.8.P.8.3,SC.8.P.8.4,SC.8.P.8.5,SC.8.P.8.6,
SC.8.P.8.7,SC.8.P.8.8,SC.8.P.8.9,
SC.8.P.9.1, SC.8.P.9.2,SC.8.P.9.3
Physical Science: Earth Explorers
($4 per student)
Explore our everchanging Earth through hands-on experiments. Slice through the layers of the Earth, model erosion and deposition, build paper mountains, and topple structures with an earthquake simulator.
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Physics: Catapult Arcade
($4 per student)
Explore Newton’s Laws of Motion and use your creativity to create a catapult. Then use it to play Catapult Skeeball!
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VA.68.S.3.3,VA.68.H.3.1,VA.68.H.3.3,VA.68.F.1.3,VA.68.F.1.4,
VA.68.F.3.3,VA.68.F.3.4
Maker Workshop: Paper Circuits (TH)
($6 per student)
Use copper tape and LED lights to make pop-up cards, flowers, pinwheels, paper helicopters, and more that light up!
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VA.68.H.3.1,VA.68.H.3.3,VA.68.F.1.3,VA.68.F.1.4,VA.68.F.3.3,
VA.68.F.3.4
History: TBD
Science on a Sphere:
($3 per student)
Work with our Education Team to choose a guided program on a topic of your choice using our IPads with our new interactive exhibit, Science on a Sphere! Follow the paths of past hurricanes, track sea turtles, explore the volcanoes on one of Jupiter’s moons, see all the phases of our moon, watch land cover evolve and change over time, and so much more!
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SC.8.E.5.7,SC.8.E.5.9,SC.8.E.5.10,SC.8.E.5.11, SC.8.5.12
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SS.6.G.2.2,SS.6.G.2.3,SS.6.G.2.4,SS.6.G.3.1,SS.6.G.3.2,
SS.6.G.6.1,SS.6.G.6.2,SS.7.G.1.2, SS.7G.1.3,SS.7.G.2.3,SS.7.G.3.1,SS.7.G.4.1,SS.7.G.4.2,
SS.7.G.6.1,SS.8.G.1.1,SS.8.G.1.2,SS.8.G.2.1,SS.8.G.2.2,SS.8.G.2.3, SS.8.G.3.1,SS.8.G.3.2,SS.8.G.5.1,SS.8.G.5.2,SS.8.G.6.1,SS.8.G.6.2**
** Standards addressed will depend on the focus of the Science on a Sphere program
Recommended SOS Programs for Grades 6-8:
- Water Falls: Extreme Events: Learn how too much or too little water can spell disaster through this exploration of droughts, landslides, tropical storms and floods.
- Fronts and Forecasts: Learn to identify fronts and learn that the speed and direction in which a front is moving can give you a starting point for predicting weather.
- Earth, Our Goldilocks Planet: Learn why Earth is in the perfect position for life to flourish, as well as how water and temperature determine if life is possible in other parts of the solar system.
- One Ocean: Learn how human activity affects the ocean and how the oceans will continue to change through an exploration of sea surface temperature, marine debris, nutrient runoff, and ocean acidification.
- Animals on the Move: Track Sea Turtles, Great White Sharks, Orcas, Birds, Seals, Butterflies, and More.
- Mega Moons: Learn About Moons in Our Solar System: Ariel (Uranus’ Moon), Callisto (Jupiter’s Moon), Dione (Saturn’s Moon), etc.
- Earth Explorers: Learn About Earthquakes, Floods, Volcanoes, Plate Tectonics, Forest Change, Tsunamis, etc.
