In-School Field Trips

Earthquakes! Hurricanes! Tornadoes! Oil spills! And more! Learn how the earth's layers and weather systems move to cause these phenomena and how we can protect ourselves. Have FUN as we make them happen in your classroom!

Rotate, revolve and tilt as we understand the movement of the earth and moon around the sun. Play with the phases of the moon and see the impact the moon has on the earth. Learn about the movement of the stars and the constellations.

Step into the world of the Rock Cycle. We uncover the mysteries of rocks, fossils and crystals. Pan for real gems and keep what you find! Perform a battery of tests as we classify them!

Discover the force of wind and air pressure. Touch a cloud and experience the power of lightning! Become a real meteorologist. Look at clouds, the jet stream, and weather maps to predict the weather!

Make the earth move, rotate and tilt as we uncover the reason for the seasons and the corresponding changes in the length of the day, the weather and the trees. Experience our orrery, and extract color from a leaf and more as the seasons change!

Learn about weather as we take an up close and hands-on look at the wind, clouds, and a real tornado. Discover all the amazing properties of air and air pressure. Touch lightning and a cloud!

Discover how cool the brain really is! Find out why the brain is the boss, as we make neurons, axons, and much more!

Discover our oceans and what creatures live down deep. Examine a real fish! Build your own coral reef and explore echolocation, whale song, and bioluminescence and find out how deep sea marine creatures survive and thrive.

Journey through the earth's extreme environments: deserts, rainforests, the depths of the oceans, the arctic zones. Learn how birds, animals, marine creatures and plants adapt to these harsh climates. Explore the amazing survival of the cactus. Roll up your sleeves as we discover some slimy things!

Discover our incredible sense of sight. Have fun as we build our very own eye ball to keep! Explore the properties of vision and perception. Learn about near sighted, far sighted, and astigmatism. See it all for yourself!

Solve the crime! Become a CSI technician as we look for clues, discover a mystery powder, learn all about DNA and fingerprint patterns. Dust for fingerprints and much more.

Discover the incredible world of bugs. Find out all the cool and creepy things bugs do! Explore how they help our world. See through the eyes of bugs and play the pheromone game.

Discover why it's cool to be a vertebrate! Check out real bones and X-rays. Get hip as we make our very own ball and socket joints. Stay connected as we work with skeletons to see which bones are connected. Learn about our funny bone and bone marrow!

Kids become paleontologists as we uncover the mysteries of the dinosaurs, plants, and marine life that existed millions of years ago. We examine REAL fossils, dig for them and make our own!

Have FUN as we make sense out of our senses. Explore the five senses, one sense at a time. Discover how much animals and we rely on our senses.

Get the essentials as we learn about the food groups. Have FUN as we test for protein, starch and fat. Balance your meals with Choose My Plate. Experiment with vitamins; learn to make healthy choices, portion control, getting your heartbeat up and much more! (Please note: nuts are not used in this program.)

Learn all about breathing. Discover how we can tell what we breathe out is not what we breathed in! Have FUN as we make our very own Breathing Machine. Make a wind tunnel and much more!

Explore our amazing underwater world. Learn about plankton, and why almost all ocean life depends on them. Explore Coral Reefs and examine a real fish - gills, fins, scales and all! Make your very own reef to keep!

Discover the amazing world of plants. We have a hands-on look at roots, shoots, and transportation inside a plant. Learn about photosynthesis and germination. Get all the "seedy" facts!

From stinky skunks to flying frogs, we explore the amazing ways animals, mammals, and plants adapt and survive in their habitats. Are you predator or are you prey?

Join the chain gang, the food chain of producers, consumers and decomposers. Have fun as we learn about predator-prey relationships and food webs and dissect real owl pellets. Find out how animals protect themselves in the wild!

We all leave prints behind! Learn about your fingertip patterns, inherited traits and genetically unique DNA. Can the environment or changes in habitat impact your survival or your DNA?

Find out how much fun chemistry can be! Explore chromatography as you watch colors separate before your eyes. Make your own silly putty and gummy candies as we learn REAL chemistry.

Have FUN as we explore reversible and irreversible changes, phase changes, chemical reactions, and the properties of matter. Weigh air and watch solids turn into gases!

Explore the properties of matter, evaporation rates, conductivity and more! Observe how matter is conserved in a phase change and chemical reaction, then make bouncing balls to take home!

Understand why things balance, how things move and all the forces that impact motion! We have FUN learning how to trick gravity, making objects balance or fall, and launching a rocket if the weather permits!

Experience friction and create traction for balls, tires, slides, pennies, and more! Change the shape and find ways to slip and slide away.

Discover the properties of magnetism. Have FUN as we uncover all the "attractive" and "repulsive" facts. Make an electromagnet. Uncover the many uses for magnets and magnetic forces!

Explore the amazing world of electricity. Learn what's "static" and "current" as you make hair rise and water bend. Transfer energy, generate electricity, touch lightning and get all the electrifying facts! Make an electromagnet as we uncover all the "attractive" and "repulsive" facts.

Catch the vibes! Make sound travel through different media. Build an ear drum. Make salt dance and learn about wave motion. Make our own musical instrument and send Morse code!

Find out just how amazing light is. Reflect it, refract it, pass it through different media, and send messages with it! Uncover the mysteries behind ROY G. BIV, UV light, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Become "energized", transfer energy and light up bulbs!

Find out what makes buildings and bridges stand up and not fall down. Learn about compression and tension. Students become engineers and design a bridge that can carry a load!

Finally, a hands-on and FUN program on simple machines. Make your very own screw out of a carrot. Build a crane, and engage in pulley power and incline plane antics. Balance using levers and by moving fulcrums. Enter the world of screws and determine the most appropriate tools to use.

Experience a real chemical reaction and work with Lego bricks to understand the differences between compounds & mixtures and what happens to atoms & molecules in a chemical reaction. (Program developed by MIT's Mind Hand Alliance)

Learn about aerodynamics and what makes things fly. Learn about lift and drag and the forces that impact flight as we launch a rocket, make a helicopter and discover why what goes up must come down.

Find out what makes buildings and bridges stand up and not fall down. Learn about compression and tension. Become an engineer, design a bridge that can carry a load and test out a prototype! (90 minutes)

Understand the difference between compounds and mixtures and what happens to atoms and molecules in a chemical reaction. First do a wet lab and experience an exothermic reaction and a live chemical reaction! Then work with Lego bricks to build molecules and find out what happened to the atoms and molecules during the chemical reaction. (90 minutes) (Program developed by MIT's Mind Hand Alliance)

Discover the amazing world of biology. Discover cell walls and more under a microscope. Experience osmosis, and even make your very own edible cell. Become a geneticist and create DNA! (60 minutes)

Discover why it's cool to be a vertebrate! Check out real bones and X-rays. Get hip as we make our very own ball and socket joints. Stay connected as we work with skeletons to see which bones are connected. Learn about our funny bone and bone marrow! (60 minutes)

How is food digested? Examine real cow livers and other organs and do experiments to understand how each functions to extract the nutrients the body needs. (60 minutes)

Take a deep breath and examine the chambers of a cow's heart! Follow the flow of blood in and out of the heart and understand how the heart and lungs work together to transport nutrition to the rest of the body. (60 minutes)

Get a buzz from the body's nervous system. Build a neuron and find out how the brain controls all functions of the body. Find out what the brain feels like and how you can protect your brain! (60 minutes)