Designed for: Various grade levels
Maximum Number: 30 participants
Length: 60 minutes

To schedule programs, call (513) 287-7021
Programs in October, November, December are discounted by 10%.

Digging for Dinosaurs
Grades 1-4 (Earth Science)
Uncover fossils on a paleontological "dinosaur dig." Discuss Cincinnati’s world-famous Ordovician fossils. Learn how fossils are formed and make a plaster cast of a fossil for the group to keep. Touchable fossils from dinosaurs such as Allosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, raptors and many more make this program a junior paleontologist’s dream. Requires a large open area for the presentation.

Incredible Insects
Grades 1-5 (Life Science)
Get up close and personal with the creatures that make up Earth’s largest population. Learn who is an insect and who is not; see the world through the eyes of a fly; and learn some amazing facts about insect defense, including camouflage and mimicry. This program comes complete with live insects and some unbelievable mounted insects from across the globe.

The Reasons for the Seasons
Grades 1-5 (Earth Science, Life Science, Space Science, Geography)
Using globes, rotate and revolve your way to learn about the seasons and to understand why spring and summer are warmer times of the year and fall and winter are colder. Create the sounds of spring and explore the effects of camouflage with real animal mounts from Museum collections. Then, win a seasonal prize if you can identify which animal has visited by studying scat and tracks left behind.

Awesome Animal Adaptations
Grades 1-8 (Life Science)
Explore animal habitats and adaptations. Meet and touch live animals that may include a bat, snake, box turtle, tarantula, and/or hissing cockroaches. Learn about and handle unique items such as baleen, pronghorn antelope fur, armadillo armor and more from Cincinnati Museum Center collections.

Bats
Grades 1-9 (Life Science)
Walk like a bat! Fly like a bat! Meet a native Big Brown Bat. Explore echolocation, how it works and what it sounds like. Learn about these truly amazing yet misunderstood animals through a slide presentation, game, artifacts and more.

Your Heart, Your Blood, Your Health
Grades 2-6 (Life Science)
What an amazing machine the heart is! Learn about how the heart is packaged, the way it works, the way it sounds, to which system it belongs, and what it pumps. Get “up close and personal” with capillaries, “run” a little race, test your food pyramid knowledge, and share some giant microbes.

Experimenting with Physical Science
Grades 3-6 (Physical Science)
What shapes do bubbles take? Does sound vibrate? Explore bubbles, sound, electricity, magnets, motion, light, color, mirrors and optical illusions in this inquiry-based program. Create hypotheses, perform experiments, draw conclusions, and share your discoveries.

Tour the Solar System
Grades 3-6 (Earth Science, Space Science)
Soar through the solar system with recent slide images from Mercury, Neptune and beyond. Touch real meteorites and rocks of the type found on our Moon. Create impact craters and observe the crushing effects of air pressure!

NEW! Fossils at Our Feet: Ancient Creatures of the Queen City (Available Mid-May 2012)
Grades 3-8 (Earth Science, Life Science)
Investigate how land masses moved and shifted through time. Explore a timeline of major species evolution and extinction events. Learn about local ancient creatures, the habitat in which they lived, and their adaptations. Program includes an Ordovician period diorama and fossil specimens from Museum collections. Program can accommodate adult audiences. Call for details.

Chemistry in Your Hands
Grades 4-8 (Physical Science)
Heat it up and cool it down! See and feel the evidence of physical versus chemical change. Watch your experiments change color as you create acids and bases. Learn chemistry basics and practice lab safety. Beware—the results you take home may be slimy!

Geology Rocks
Grades 4-8 (Earth Science, Physical Science)
Be a geologist for the day! Learn all about rocks and minerals while viewing and handling impressive specimens from Cincinnati Museum Center collections. Test your knowledge of everyday uses of minerals. Then, examine, test, and classify specimens to learn their true identities. This hands-on program is sure to provide a rocking time!

Taxonomic Detectives
Grades 4-8 (Life Science)
Classification isn’t as mysterious as it sounds. Use clues given by animal eye placement and teeth type, along with a dichotomous key to identify real animal skulls and determine to which taxonomic order they belong. With some simple classification activities to get you started, it’s a detective case you’ll soon solve, right down to the species of each skull.

ABC: Arches, Bridges, and Construction
Grades 5-8 (Physical Science)
Working cooperatively in teams, build arches, a suspension bridge and a truss bridge you can actually crawl across. Learn what makes bridges work - anchors, beams and compression, just to name a few. Explore the concepts of live load, dead load, and environmental stress.

Forensics: The Science of Crime
Grades 5-8 (Life Science, Physical Science)
Analyze human skull replicas to determine gender and ethnicity of a fictional victim. Combining clues from the skull with crime scene evidence, participants are able to determine the identity of a missing person and speculate as to the cause of death. Program can be expanded to include human evolution. Call for details.

NEW! Thinking Green?
Grades 5-8 (Earth Science, Life Science, Physical Science)
Energy is all around us. We use it every day, but where does it come from? Review energy types, explore personal energy usage, and contrast renewable and non-renewable sources of electricity. As a grand finale, use renewable energy kits to experiment with several types of clean energy before getting a chance to explore a roof that is green in more ways than one. Recommended program length is 75 minutes.