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Hands-On STEAM Learning

Amazing Animals

Explore the natural world and discover what makes animals so amazing through hands-on experiences and creative play.    

• Create a Creature – Animals can do what?! Discover unique animal traits and create your own animal with different art materials. 
• Spectacular Specimens – Get up close and personal with the animal world by touching and observing skulls, pelts, and preserved insects.
• Upcycled Animal Homes – Reuse everyday materials to create birdhouses, baths, feeders, or other spaces for nature’s critters.

Flying Machines

Investigate the forces of flight and make connections between flying creatures and human-designed flying machines. 

• Flight Test – Create different paper airplane designs and use a mechanical plane launcher to test the limits of flight.
• Planes, Kites, and Boomerangs – Imagine a new flying contraption and then build it with everyday materials.
• Feathers & Metal Wings – How is a hummingbird like a jet? Play a game to determine which flying animal inspired what flying invention.

Getting Loud

Conduct different experiments to determine what causes sound and how sound can travel to our ears. 

• Craft Stick Kazoo – Let’s start a band! Create a simple musical instrument and explore the properties of sound.
• Traveling Sound – Create a device with everyday materials that can get sound to travel from one place to another.
• Dancing Laser –  Join our dance party and observe how music can create a laser light show.

Marvelous Magnets

Explore the properties of magnets through building, investigating, and observing magnets and magnetic forces.

• Magnet Marble Maze – Use magnet tiles to create a marble maze! How tall, long, or fast can you make the track? 
• Magnet Fishing – Go fish! Aim for the fish in the pond using a magnet fishing pole, but choose your pole wisely, they all have different magnets attached!
• Mysterious Substance Observation – What is this stuff? Investigate how different magnets have different effects on a mysterious magnetic substance.

Science of Structures

Engage in different engineering challenges to construct bridges, forts, and arches as they explore the science behind creating stable and balanced structures. 

• Strong Structures – Engage in engineering challenges to create freestanding bridges inspired by Leonardo da Vinci and the Ancient Romans.
• Play Like Engineers – Let’s play! Exercise your engineering skills and design a play fort with your friends.
• Key(stone) to Arch Building – Discover the key to constructing your own arch.