Take time out from a regular field trip to participate in an engaging hands-on workshop featuring activities, investigations and demonstrations that match your curriculum goals and reinforce what your students experience within Discovery Center’s exhibit galleries. Choose from the popular topics below.
Length: 45 minutes
Cost: $50 per class up to 30 students
Grades 1-8
Add this field trip to your visit to Robots: The Interactive Exhibit. In this hands-on class students will gain a greater appreciation for robotics and how robots make our lives easier. Learn about metal fatigue, compare your skills to that of a robot, and make a robot to compete against your friends! This field trip is only available from January 28, 2012 through April 29, 2012.
Illinois State Standards: 4A, 11AB, 12D, 13AB
Grades PreK-1
Use touch, sight, and hearing as exploration tools! Play under a black light, build structures from wood, create unusual sounds, explore peculiar liquids, and more! The station-based hands-on class is the perfect environment for kids to ask questions, discover answers, and experience science in fun new ways.
Illinois State Standards: 4A, 5A, 11A, 13A, 25A, 26A
Grade 2-8
This re-designed class provides an overview of simple machines, and then makes use of activity stations for student-based experiments. Students get hands-on experience with content areas and process skills. Take part in a wheel-and-axle race; assemble a network of gears, design a pulley contraption, and test the strength of levers.
Illinois State Standards: 4A, 5A, 11AB, 12D, 13A
Grade 2-8
Get hands-on as you explore the properties of the electromagnetic spectrum in this stations-based class. Warp your vision using assorted colors, dissect a rainbow, experiment with invisible light, and bend and bounce radiant beams in this “enlightening” class that makes learning fun!
Illinois State Standards: 4A, 5A, 11A, 13A, 25A
