Be an inquisitive scientist as you concoct new substances. Investigate their characteristics as you first observe them and then manipulate them with your hands.

Explore sound waves and observe how they travel through water or air. Students feel vibrations caused by sound waves and experience these waves doing work.

Get wet exploring ice and water during several exciting activities. Students experiment with water drops and investigate absorption, adhesion, and other unique properties of ice and water.

Investigate patterns in nature, discover designs in animal footprints, experiment with rhythm patterns, and create your own design on a big hat you can wear.

Get charged up about electricity! Make your hair stand on end with static electricity and go fishing with a balloon. Make a static box to take home.

Discover measuring concepts such as more and less, weight and height using non standard ways of measuring. We'll practice using scales, measuring cups, droppers, and more!

We’ll find out how The Very Hungry Caterpillar becomes a butterfly and we’ll use paper chromatography to turn our own caterpillars into butterflies.

Air is all around us. We often do not notice that it is there. Air does take up space, has force and pressure. 

Inside an ordinary black marker is a rainbow of color waiting to escape! Students investigate how paper chromatography is used to separate the components of mixtures, and test colored markers, food coloring, and candy to see what unexpected colors each contains.

Watch insects in action, discover how many legs insects have and find out what they eat. Design your own insect. What will it look like?

Test your strength with levers and pulleys, and experiment with the ways simple machines make work easier in this powerful exploration. 

Sort a variety of leaves and observe them up close. Students discover how special leaves are by investigating the hidden colors in a green leaf and exploring leaf patterns with rubbings and prints.