STEM Labs
Add on to your group visit and focus your K-8th grade students on a STEM theme. Each engaging lab features activities, investigations and demonstrations that match your curriculum goals and reinforce science concepts.
Length: 45 minutes
Cost: $55 per class up to 30 students
To begin the reservation process, complete the Group Visit Request Form and someone will contact you. For additional questions, contact us at groupvisit@discoverycentermuseum.org or phone 815-963-6769.
Space Explorers New Activities
Discover space science and get hands-on to see how gravity works in space. Land safely on the surface of a foreign world and engineer a space rover!
Next Generation Science Standards: PS3.ABC, ETS1.ABC, ESS1.A
Simple Machines
An engaging overview of simple machines takes off as students experiment with wheel and axle, gear assemblies, pulley contraptions, and more.
Next Generation Science Standards: PS2.AB, PS3.C
Color and Light
Explore the properties of light, fool your vision, dissect a rainbow, experiment with invisible light and create your own kaleidoscope.
Next Generation Science Standards: ETS1.ABC, PS1.A, PS4.AB
Physics of Fun
Students make use of engineering skills as they design and test their own roller coasters in this exploration of kinetic and potential energy.
Next Generation Science Standards: ETS1.ABC PS2.AB, PS3.ABC
Microscopic Adventures
Use real microscopes, prepare slides, and investigate the world of the very small. Examine cell structures and locate living organisms in unexpected places.
Next Generation Science Standards: ETS1.ABC, LS1.A, PS1.A, PS4.AB
Wild Weather
Witness the water cycle and see how this process leads to sun and storms! Instant clouds and touchable lightning unlock the complex phenomena of weather!
Next Generation Science Standards: ESS2.CD, ESS3.B, PS1.AB, PS3.AB
Slime & Chemistry
Measure, pour, and mix real chemicals to produce reactions, investigate solids, liquids, and gases, and concoct slime!
Next Generation Science Standards: ETS1.ABC, PS1.AB, PS3.B
Early Childhood STEAM Labs
Add on to your visit and focus your PreK/K students on a STEAM theme. Each engaging lab features hands-on activities, investigations and demonstrations that match your curriculum goals and reinforce science concepts.
Length: 30 minutes Cost: $50/class up to 20 students
To begin the reservation process, complete the Group Visit Request Form and someone will then contact you. For additional questions, contact us at groupvisit@discoverycentermuseum.org or phone 815-972-2835.
Light and Sound
Grades: PreK-K
Make a color viewer, experiment with shapes and shadows, and invent a sound maker for loud and soft, high and low!
Next Generation Science Standards: ETS1.ABC, PS4.AB
Bugs
Grades: PreK-K
Build, sort, and play with bugs while we explore the tiny world of our smallest friends.
IELDS: 7.A.ECa, 8.A.ECa, 12.A.ECa, 12.B.ECb, 13.B.ECa
Common Core for Math: K.CC.4
Junior Weather
Grades: PreK-K
Explore clouds, rain, and sun in this mini version of our weather program designed for our young scientists.
IELDS: 12.E.ECa, 12.F.EDa
NGSS: ESS2.D, PS3.B, ESS3.B
Wheels in Motion
Grades: PreK-K
Make a commotion while exploring the exciting world of locomotion.
IELDS: 11.A.ECcf, 12.D.ECab
NGSS: PS2.A, PS3.C