Our School-Age Workshop Themes
Agent Undercover
Calling all agents, calling all agents! Get into gear with Agent Undercover and learn what it takes to be successful in the spy world. With the Undercover Observer that students make and take home, they will step into the shoes of a spy in action. Learn about the tools of the trade!
All About Animals
What do animals have in common? Let’s use classification to find out! Students will have the opportunity to explore the ways animals have adapted to protect themselves from predators, including camouflage. We’ll all become animal detectives when we investigate various animal tracks, and more!
Bugs
Creepy, crawly critters that are everywhere in our day to day lives... how they walk, how they see, how many legs they have and the unique shapes to their bodies. What do these little creatures eat and how do they survive in a world of giants?
Che-Mystery
Mix yourself into the world of physical and chemical change. Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you learn about chemical properties!
Crime Lab
Got clues? Analyze clues and get hot on the trail of a culprit with the Crime Lab program. Test chemicals and sharpen your language skills to decode messages. With the Spynoculars take home, students can observe clues from afar.
Current Events
Take a tour on the electron freeway! Learn about how electricity travels through series and parallel circuits. Conduct experiments to find out what materials electricity likes! Apply your knowledge and help build an electronic game!
Detective Science
Discover how science is used to solve real crimes. Watch as the classroom is transformed into a crime lab for this exploration into the fundamentals of forensics. Become a science sleuth as we discover how police use chemistry, and the 5 senses to “clue in” at a crime scene...so much fun, it’s criminal!
Dry Icecapades
Manipulate matter in all of its 3 states! Melt metal in boiling water, and freeze boiling water with some dry ice. Experience the exciting reaction between hot water and frozen carbon dioxide. Use your thermocolor cup to test the temperature of liquid matter in your home.
Earthworks
Discover your planet! Learn about geodes and metamorphic geology. Unlock the mysteries of earth's composition and geologic processes. Explore tectonic plates and make your own sedimentary stacker!
Energy Burst
Apply the principles of potential and kinetic energy to every day life. This class will reinforce scientific knowledge of energy transfer and motion using some of your favorite toys!
Fantastic Fliers
The Wright brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps and learn the fundamental principles of flight. Build a Delta Dart, learn about control-surfaces and construct your very own loop flying stunt plane. You’ll be an aviation aficionado after this class!
FUN-damental Forces
Gravity...Inertia...Centripetal Force... who could ever imagine that an introduction to physics could be so much fun? Put your scientific reasoning skills to the test as you explore different challenging Fun Forces stations!
Funky Forensics
Figure out the science of forensics in this hands-on look at crime scenes. Evidence collection and puzzle making will lead them to understand why forensic scientists like to understand the complete picture before they make decisions. Students will use a Case Stamper take-home to probe the science of tracking and create their own crime scenarios.
Glow Show
Discover amazing things that glow in the dark and chemicals that come to light! Discover the properties of light and explore unusual applications of fluorescent tech!
Junior Reactors
Create a tiny world of atoms with your very own set of Atomic Coins! Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results!
Kitchen Chemistry
Search for starches, sugars, and fats in our foods. Find out how yeast makes our bread rise. Learn why we need vitamins and minerals, and how our bodies obtain them from food.
Life in the Sea
Become a deep-sea diver as we discover ocean habitats and the creatures that dwell in them. We’ll explore the features that allow organisms to adapt to a watery life, and how scientists classify species. Children will also learn what it means to be environmentally conscience.
Lights...Color...Action
Learn the secrets of ordinary light and use scientific tools to prove it. Create chromatography art to bring a new perspective to color. Discover black lights and uncover a glowing world. This program promises to be enlightening!
Living in Space
Do you have what it takes to live in space? Learn the life of an astronaut and what they endure in low gravity. Find out how a space suit works, discover how cold life outside earth can be, and use teamwork to complete an important space mission!
Mad Science Machines
Test your skills as an engineer. Apply the concepts of work, force, and friction to designing and building simple machines with wheels, axles, gears, and levers. Make and take home a Drag Racer car!
Magnetic Magic
Learn the science behind magnets and discover the invisible field that surrounds them. Perform experiments to test magnetic strength, and even create a magnet yourself!
Mineral Mania
Students learn the process of rock formation and devise ways to identify and classify rocks and minerals. They experience the thrill of panning for minerals; the gems they find, they can take home for further study and investigation!
Movie Effects
Discover why science is the real star on the big screen! Learn how foley artists create sound effects. Toy with 3-D technology. Turn still images into a moving short-feature with a Cartoon Creator flipbook.
Moving Motion
How do friction, inertia, and other physical forces effect movement? Learn fun physics tricks to show your friends as we apply Newton's laws of motion to everyday life!
Optical Illusions
There's more than meets the eye in this visionary workshop! Students will be introduced to the concepts of refraction and the science of optics as they examine mirages and other illusions. You'll also build a periscope to put your new knowledge to use at home!
pH Factor
Slide down the colorful pH scale and dip into the world of acids and bases! Explore pH extremes with a Reaction Tube that is sure-to-be a popping experience! Discover whether liquids found in your home are acids or bases.
Planets & Moons
Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse in the “mad” planetary tour! Learn how the planets stack up. Build and take home a Gravity Assisted Launcher kit.
Science of Magic
Magic? No - it’s science! Find out the secrets of Houdini in this class of deception! You’ll learn the secrets behind magic tricks that you can recreate for yourself. Even build your own Curious Cube to fool family and friends!
Science of Toys
What makes toys work? Move out of the way for motorized toys. Take a spin with kinetic tops. Balance a bird to reveal its center of gravity. A twist of the wrist sets your Yo-Yo toy spinning!
Slime Time
Learn about one of the most important molecular substances known to humankind.... polymers! Create slime using the special Mad Science recipe and put its scientific properties to the test!
Sonic Sounds
Tune your ears in to this lesson on acoustic science! Learn about sound transmission and experiment with pitch. Create a Mad Science symphony using sound recognition. Children also have the opportunity to change how they sound using an electronic voice changer.
Space Travel
Learn what it takes to be a true globetrotter! Race a balloon rocket and balloon car as you learn about thrust. See the principles of propulsion at work in a rocket launch, and build your very own Balloon Copter to fly to the skies!
Spy Academy
Look out 007—the Mad Science Spy Academy is in session! From edible messages and decoding clues, students will have the opportunity to check out the skills that spies have in this hands-on journey into the world of espionage. Students will make and take home their own Secret Code Breaker to communicate stealthily at home, like real spies!
Super Sticky Stuff
Stick it to the walls, and push the power of tape to the limits in this adhesive hour on things that cling! Build a bond with glue and get attached to Professor Beakerdude!
Super Structures
Amazing architecture and engineering! Discover how simple shapes like the triangle and arch strengthen and reinforce buildings. Join our science structure challenge... build an earthquake proof-building.
Under Pressure
Join Bernoulli and Newton as we take this exciting look at the science behind aerodynamics and the properties of air... under pressure. Use a vortex generator to create air pockets with a punch, and levitate ping-pong balls in defiance of gravity!
Walloping Weather
Get weather-wise! Uncover the reason for seasons. Create three-day weather forecasts, stage a statically-charged indoor storm, and spot the sun's invisible UV rays with the Sun Beads kit.
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