KidScience: Island of the Elements, exclusively for 5-8 year olds, is the perfect environment to introduce basic properties of matter. Children learn about air, water, earth and light, and discover energy and its affects as they board a ship, climb a lighthouse, power a real waterwheel and navigate mazes.
The Train Factory invites students to experience a 19th century machine shop and ride a 350-ton steam locomotive built in 1926. As they work their way through the exhibit to solve a fictional train crash, students learn about the people who built our rail system. They will explore concepts such as steam, pressure, friction, and electric and magnetic force, and use observational skills, making and testing hypotheses.
Free live shows and guided activities.
Rathmann Hall of Science
Including The Giant Heart, Electricity Hall, Franklin...He's Electric, and Franklin Gallery.
The Giant Heart: A Healthy Interactive Experience
Electricity Hall explores the experiments of electricity and its applications, allowing students to interact with static electricity, motors, magnetism and telegraphy.
Check the daily schedule for the free, electrifying "Ben's Curiosity Show."
Franklin...He's Electric looks at Franklin's accomplishments as a scientist and inventor, providing insights into science and history.
Sir Isaac's Loft: Where Art and Physics Collide demonstrates basic principles of physics in an art gallery setting. Imaginative interactives demonstrate the beauty of chain reactions, light, motion, energy, and more. See beautiful artworks that use science to play with your mind.
Glassblowing the perfect demonstration of "science meets art." Students learn the history of this "super solid liquid" and how it changes, in a live glassblowing demonstration.
Light and Color Experiment Benches experiment with the nature and properties of light at our new hands-on experiment benches, using prisms, light boxes and laser beams.
