Gallery Exploration
Grade: 3 years of age–5th grade recommended
Cost: $2 per student
Time: 60-90 minutes recommended
Students can spend time exploring the gallery on their own with their adult chaperones. This is a wonderful experience for our younger students. Visit our website for our changing exhibit schedule.
Field Trips
We love to have your students visit us here at the Science Station. All programs below are available at the Science Education Center.
Field Trip Prices: $3 per student includes hands-on program of choice and gallery exploration time.
Outreach
If you can’t come to us, we can bring the Science Station to you! All programs below are available as an outreach program at your site.
Outreach Prices: $75 first session at your site
$60 second session of same program
Hands-On Science Programs
Our programs inspire students to explore science by providing content rich,hands-on activities. Multiple topics are available for students. See the individual programs for descriptions. Program sessions are 45-60 minutes in length.
These programs take place in our Education Center in downstairs in the lower level of Lindale Mall, off center court or any program can be brought to your location.
STUFFEE Programs Offered December through February at the Science Station
STUFFEE is on the outreach van touring all other months
Grades: K-2 or 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Get the inside scoop about all of your “insides”. Our giant, blue haired friend
makes it fun and easy to learn all about our bodies – from the inside out. Check
out each organ as STUFFEE shows us how they really work.
Music to my Ears
Grades: K-2 or 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Bang, beat, strum, and shake to music. Model sound waves, experiment with
vibrations, and learn about pitch and volume.
Floods and Suds
Grades: K-2 or 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 Students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Get your hands wet and have some good, clean fun exploring surface tension
and bubbles. Make a jar of bubble solution and design your own bubble wand to
take home for extended fun.
Space
Grades: K-2 or 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Blast off! Into space. Discover the solar system, fly to the moon, map constellations.
Find out about shuttles, rockets and what it takes to become and astronaut.
STEMulate Your Students
Grades: K-2 or 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
S = Science
T = Technology
E = Engineering
M = Math
Get your students more involved with the fun elements of science and engineering
activities through experiments and investigation.Your students will be
exposed to all aspects of STEM. Let us tie it all together and find out how to
make science fun and possibly turn it into a career.
“Current” Events (Electricity)
Grades: 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 45 Students
Explore a shocking topic! Learn about static and current electricity. Discover the
difference between parallel and series circuits.
Dive In
Grades: 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Investigate neutral buoyancy with this class on experimental design. Devise a
method to control the variables and successfully suspend your diver underwater.
Cloud Catchers
Grades: 2-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
That’s not cotton candy in the sky! Discover what clouds are made of and create
a cloud. Learn how to use clouds to forecast the weather and make your own
cloud watcher to take home.
Crazy Chemistry
Grades: 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 45 Students
Discover the science of solutions, create chemical concoctions, and explore state
of matter.We will test the acid/base reactions of different solutions.
Corny Science
Grades: K-2 or 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Experience all things Corn. From the field to the table your students will learn
how and why some corns pops, why corn comes in different colors, why you eat
some corn and some you can't and much more. The Science Station educators
teach your students the science behind corn. Presentation levels K-2 and 3-5.
Magnets Inc.
Grades: 3-5 Time: 60 minutes
Minimum Attendance: 12 students
Maximum Attendance: 30 Students
Discover how the world around us
pushes, pulls, drops soars and has
its ups and downs in a variety of
hands-on activities.Your students will
develop an understanding of magnetic
forces by building and racing a
magnetic train.
