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!
Students observe and manipulate force and motion as they simulate what space scientists do! Hands-on investigations include playing with gravity, engineering a rover, and using magnetic force to alter trajectory!
Next Generation Science Standards: PS2.AB, 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
Junior 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.
Senses of Science
Grades: PreK-K
Use touch, sight, and hearing as exploration tools! This hands-on class is the perfect environment for kids to ask questions, discover answers, and experience science.
Next Generation Science Standards: LS1.AD
All Shapes and Sizes
Grades: PreK-K
Students get a brain-workout with this assortment of patterns, puzzles, shapes, and sorting designed to stimulate creative thinking. Kids won’t even realize they’re doing math!
Next Generation Science Standards: ETS1.ABC, PS1.A
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