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  • Energy Challenges and Solutions

    Investigate current energy issues while learning about the power of renewable energies, or discover how tiny technologies can provide larger energy solutions.

    • Recommended for Grades 6 – 12
    • Gordon Current Science & Technology Center, Blue Wing, Level 1
    • Reservations required in advance

    Starting Points

    • What are some of the energy solutions you saw?
    • Why is it important to study renewable energy sources?

  • Exhibit Hall Investigations

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    Museum educators offer an investigation activity that promotes scientific inquiry skills while focusing in a particular exhibit. Additional activities are provided to support curriculum standards.

    • Recommended for Grades 3 – 8
    • Various locations in and near the Museum
    • Reservations required in advance

    Starting Points

    • What kind of scientific skills to you use in this activity?
    • What other questions do you have?

  • Exhibit Investigation: Animal Adaptations

    Join Museum educators for a facilitated exploration of New England Habitats. Participating schools will need to divide students into groups of 30-40; each group should plan to spend 30 minutes in the exhibit. How do an animal’s physical features help it survive in its habitat? Students use their observation skills to explore this question by examining similarities and differences of New England animals.

    • Recommended for Grades Pre-K – 12
    • Green Wing, Level 1

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    • Look at the diorama of the mother deer and fawn. Are they doing the same thing? What can the mother do that the fawn can’t do yet?
    • Compare and contrast two animals in the exhibit. Do these animals have any features or behaviors in common?

  • Exhibit Investigation: Evolution

    Join Museum educators for a facilitated exploration of <cite>Colossal Fossil: Triceratops Cliff</cite>. Participating schools will need to divide students into groups of 30-40; each group should plan to spend 30 minutes in the exhibit. What models do scientists use to understand evolution and the relationships between species? Students will explore different ways that scientists understand evolution: from identifying how natural selection allows a species to evolve and adapt, to using a cladogram to discover the relationship between modern birds and dinosaurs!

    • Recommended for Grades Pre-K – 12
    • Blue Wing, Lower Level

    Starting Points

    • Observe the skeletons of the chicken, iguana and Compsognathus. What similarities and differences do you see?
    • How do you think Compsognathus walked? How does this compare to the way chickens and iguanas walk?

  • Exhibit Investigation: Forces and Motion

    Join Museum educators for a facilitated exploration of Science in the Park. Participating schools will need to divide students into groups of 30 &ndash; 40; each group should plan to spend 30 minutes in the exhibit. How do levers help make work easier? Students will experiment with a simple machine and make a line graph to help them better understand the relationship between Work, Force, and Distance.

    • Recommended for Grades Pre-K – 12
    • Blue Wing, Level 2

    Starting Points

    • With a small group of three or four, experiment with the seesaw. What can you change, other than the number of people on each side, in order to balance the seesaw?
    • Now experiment with the LIFT lever. What is different about where you stand when you pull on each of the different ropes? What are you changing?

  • Exhibit Investigation: Making Observations

    Join Museum educators for a facilitated exploration of <cite>Take a Closer Look</cite>. Participating schools will need to divide students into groups of 30-40; each group should plan to spend 30 minutes in the exhibit. How do we observe the world we are a part of? Students use their observation skills to explore and measure the limits of their own senses, and discover how we can use technology to extend and enhance our methods of observing the world around us.

    • Recommended for Grades Pre-K – 12
    • Blue Wing, Lower Level

    Starting Points

    • What sense are you testing? Can you measure the limit of that sense?
    • Stand in front of the Thermal Infrared Camera. What color pattern do you notice on the screen that can help us understand what we are seeing here?

  • Explore the Galaxy

    Travel through the solar system and beyond in a tour of our stellar neighborhood. With a live presenter as a guide, these highly interactive programs incorporate student questions and audience feedback to drive the program, selecting specific objects for exploration.

    • Recommended for Grades 6 – 8
    • Charles Hayden Planetarium, Red Wing, Level 1
    • Separate timed ticket required

    Starting Points

    • What kinds of objects are in our galaxy?
    • What did you learn about the life cycle of a star?

  • Explore the Solar System

    Explore our beautiful solar system and its thousands of varied worlds &mdash; the Sun, planets, moons, and newly discovered objects that are changing the way we view our neighborhood in space. With a live presenter as a guide, these highly interactive programs incorporate student questions and audience feedback to drive the program, selecting specific objects for exploration.

    • Recommended for Grades 3 – 5
    • Charles Hayden Planetarium, Red Wing, Level 1
    • Separate timed ticket required

    Starting Points

    • What kinds of objects are in our solar system?
    • What are some of the differences between stars and planets?

  • Explore the Universe

    Take a grand tour of the cosmos, from Earth all the way to the farthest reaches of space and time. Explore cosmic mysteries that are confounding scientists, see how objects interact in space, and hear about the latest missions that are helping us understand the universe today. With a live presenter as a guide, these highly interactive programs incorporate student questions and audience feedback to drive the program, selecting specific objects for exploration.

    • Recommended for Grades 9 – 12
    • Charles Hayden Planetarium, Red Wing, Level 1
    • Separate timed ticket required

    Starting Points

    • What kinds of objects are in our universe?
    • How do scientists find our more about our universe?

  • Fantastic Forces

    Discover how a magician's tablecloth, exploding newspaper, pencil-gun, bullwhip, or rocket car dramatically demonstrates relations between mass, velocity, acceleration, and force as described by Newton's Laws of Motion.

    • Recommended for Grades 4 – 12
    • Cahners Theater, Blue Wing, Level 2
    • Reservations required in advance

    Starting Points

    • Can you name one of Newton's laws of motion? How does it work?
    • What kinds of forces did you see in this program?

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