Outreach

Outreach programs allow teachers the luxury of staying at school and having our educators come to them! We offer programs for Pre-K through 5th grade on a number of subjects including magnets, levers, physics, insects, and weather. The Family Museum also offers Family Nights. A Museum educator will come to your school with all the activities and supplies needed for two hours of fun family exploration in math, science, or flight.

How to Register

Outreach Programs

Program Length: 50 minutes per class
Program Cost: Mileage $.55/mile plus $135 for half-day (up to 3 programs) or $185 for a full day. (up to 5 programs)

Love Affair of Maggie Nets (Grades K-3)

• Build knowledge about magnets and excitement about science.
• Demonstrations illustrate basic principles of magnetism.
• Students explore over 15 different interactive magnet experiment stations.

Gadgets and Gizmos (Grades 2-5)

• Explore levers, wedges, pulleys, inclined planes, gears, screws and more.
• Samples of simple machines make work easier on our amazing "Tennis Ball Bowling Gizmo".
• Students create a new contraption that will push, pull, roll and do work.

Solids and Liquids and Gases... Oh My! (Grades 2-5)

• A variety of fascinating experiments that investigate the properties of matter.
• Open ended hands on activities that explore solids, liquids, and gases.
• Student-centered excitement and fun.

Understanding Electricity (Grades 2-5)

• Static electricity can be shocking!
• Build a circuit and light a bulb, include a switch.
• Investigate conductors and insulators.

Sound Science (Grades K-5)

• Check out the "vibration relation" of sounds around us.
• Activities explore seeing, feeling and hearing vibrations.
• Students make a vibration sensation that illustrates the science of sound.

Weather Wonders (Grades K-5)

• Experiment with air pressure.
• Touch a tornado and investigate lightning.
• Find out how air, sun, water and Earth work together to make weather happen.

Push Pull Forces (Grades 1-5)

• Investigate how a push or pull makes things go and change direction.
• Experiment with friction to make things slow down and stop.
• Use a push, a pull and friction to build a roller coaster that's really fast... or maybe slow.

Box City (Grades K-5)

• An interdisciplinary experience in community planning.
• Students explore realistic issues while planning and building a city.
• Hands on materials just like real city planners use.

Beautiful Book (Grades 1-5)

• How are illuminations used in books throughout history?
• Students learn how to light up their letter
• Children design original artwork using illustration, lettering, and calligraphy

Puppet Playhouse Theater (Grades 1-5)

• Build simple puppets
• Students read familiar stories written as puppet theater presentations
• Puppetry expands the view of the story, stimulates imagination, and fuels your students' appetites for reading!

New! Creepy Crawly Critters (Grades pre-K - 1)

• Create a butterfly life cycle circle.
• Get buggy and come eye-to-antennae with real live insects.
• Indentify insects and non-insects

New! Spin It! (Grades 1-4)

• Discover the science of rotation illustrated in art.
• Design and experiment with a paper helicopter.  
• Make an old-fashioned spinning toy.