Identity
An Exhibition of You
The Identity Experience
Available Monday, Wednesday and Friday, through April 18. $14 per student and $3 per chaperone. Includes admission to all exhibits except Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination.
(Minimum 30 students; maximum 60.)
Biology, Sociology, Psychology
Through April 20
We’re all made of a thousand little stories.
What are yours?
Explore how the physical, psychological and social elements in your life create your identity. Identity: an exhibition of you takes the science behind identity and makes it personal, engaging you and your students with hands-on interactive components that challenge us all to see ourselves from a different perspective.
Explore the extent to which inherited genes determine our physical identity. Observe how chemical balances in the brain affect our psychological identity. Evaluate how people around us modify our social identity, and rethink the ways in which we interact and identify with particular social groups.
Become Part of the Exhibit: When you reserve The Identity Experience for your class, your students are invited to create collages representing the three elements that define who they are: a physical trait or talent inherited from their parents; a social trait indicative of their friends or community; and a psychological trait that shows how they feel about themselves. Additional information is available at www.fi.edu/identitywall.
Tuttleman IMAX Theater
Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France
Wired to Win presents a new portrait of the brain. See Tuttleman IMAX Theater.
Live Shows and Hands-On Workshops
Unraveling the Brain Show
Duration: 25 minutes.
Your brain is where your identity truly lives, but how accurately does it process the world around you? Learn about what is actually going on in your brain as you test your perception in this dynamic live show. Content will be adjusted for age-appropriate learning experiences.
DNA Workshops
Grades 3–5
Why do we look the way we do? DNA is the starting point. In this hands-on exploration, students collect cells from their
mouths and take an up-close look at their DNA. Armed with a new appreciation for this amazing molecule, they then engage
in activities that explore inheritance and genetics.
Grades 6–8
Your DNA is the starting point for your physical identity, but what could happen when things go wrong? Students collect cells
from their mouths and learn how easy it is to extract their own DNA. Students will look at how DNA codes for protiens,
why genetic disorders happen, and are then asked to consider current issues in genetics, such as what would happen if someone gained access to their DNA.
Grades 9–12
Humans are 99.9% alike with respect to DNA. What does that mean? Students collect cheek cells to extract their DNA, and using real genetic tools,
they analyze DNA sequence data between different people to learn more about the universal “thread of life.”
Complete Curriculum Correlations for grades 1–12, online at www.fi.edu/teacherresources.
Major funding provided by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.