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| Adventures in Air: Be amazed as we use air pressure to blow out a candle at 10 paces and cause a can to implode. This dynamic class explores the concepts of air pressure and buoyancy through hands on experimentation and thought provoking demonstrations. |
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| 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. Lots of hands-on experience with tools of the trade including a spy bug! |
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| Amazing Owls: This class is a hoot! Examine feathers, try our "Camouflage Owl" challenge, and hear real owl calls! You'll learn about Indiana owls, investigate their eating habits through owl pellets, and discover much more about these amazing creatures. |
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| Be Tobacco Free: Investigate the consequences of tobacco use with experiments that compare the function of healthy and unhealthy lungs. Make and take home the "Be Tobacco Free" message in the form of a thick, dark slime that simulates smokers phlegm. |
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| Che-mystery: Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you make a substance that has the properties of both a liquid and a solid! |
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| Crime Lab: Got clues? analyze clues and get hot on the trail of a culprit with the Crime Lab program. Students will perform pH tests on a variety of liquids and conduct chromatography tests. |
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| Current Events: Take a tour on the electron freeway! Conductors, insulators, transistors, and other elements in the world of circuit electricity introduce themselves to you via the tingle in your fingertips and the twinkle in your eye! |
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| Detective Science: Investigate the fundamentals of forensics and discover how science is used to solve real crimes! |
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| Digging for Dinos: Become a junior paleontologist as you enter the world of dinosaurs! Examine fossils, dig for a dinosaur, and create your own fossil cast to keep! |
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Discover Detection: Step into the shoes of a detective -- uncover the science involved in evidence gathering and analysis. Students will create, collect, and analyze evidence and discover what skills are necessary as a crime scene lab technician. |
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| Earthworks: Explore the powerful process that shapes our planet and forms remarkable rocks, magnificent minerals, and glittering gems! |
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| Electricity: Excite some electrons as you construct some serious circuits (parallel and series, to be specific). Test various materials for conductivity with space age plasma balls. Apply your newly found skills and knowledge to create and play an electronic game. |
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| Fibers, Flames, & Fingerprints: Are detectives really scientists in disguise? Students will hone their powers of observation as they examine properties of various fiber samples and fingerprints. |
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| Fun-damental Forces: Gravity - inertia - centripetal force who could ever imagine that an introduction to physics could be so much fun? We'll experience these awesome forces for ourselves and build some cool devices to watch them at work! |
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| Funky Forensics: Figure out the science of forensics in this hands-on look at crime scenes. Evidence collection and puzzle making will lead students to understand why forensic scientists like to understand the complete picture before they make decisions. |
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Healthy Choices: Learn how making good choices can help us have healthy lives . We will take a look at the new MyPyramid food guide, discover where our food really comes from, and learn how to create healthy meals. Kids will even get to take home a little reminder to make healthy choices! |
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| Kitchen Chemistry: Experience the virtual laboratory we call a kitchen in a novel and practical application of science! Dinnertime will never be the same. |
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| Light... Color... Action!: Uncover the hidden components in ordinary light and use a Newton color wheel to prove it. Focus a black light to make ghostlike images, split white light into the colors of the rainbow, and separate inks into individual colors. |
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| Mad Science Machines: Design, problem-solve, and have a whole lot of fun with pulleys and levers! Use your newly found engineering skills to make your own Mad Science racer. |
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| Magnificent Magnets: Experience the attractions of magnetism. Discover the invisible fields surrounding magnets. Attend a "magnetic conference and devise and perform experiments to test magnetic strength. |
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| Measure For Measure: Investigate how your body can be used as a ruler. Experiment weighty issues with balances. Apply your sharpened skills as you look for treasure on a Measure Hunt. |
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| Mineral Mania: Peek beneath the Earths crust and see what its made of. Recreate the process of rock formation and devise ways to identify and classify rocks and minerals. Experience the thrill of panning for gems; the gems you find you can take home. |
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| Movie Effects: Explore first-hand how advances in science and technology make our favorite special effects possible! |
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| Optical Illusions: Learn why seeing is not always believing! Have fun building your own periscope while learning about optics, reflection, and sight. |
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| Science of Magic: Magic? No, its science! Youll learn the secrets behind famous magic that you can recreate for yourself! Mother Nature has some tricks of her own, and we'll show you what's up her sleeve! |
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| Sleuths on the Scene: Suspects, schematics, and sleuths - on my! Connect the dots using science to help solve a crime in this hands-on investigation of the science of sleuthing. Students will use simulated blood to test for the characteristics of different blood types. |
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| Slippery Science: This class demystifies one of the most fascinating and beneficial molecules known to mankind -Polymers! Learn how these giant molecules are made as we make our very own slime to experiment with and take home! |
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| Sound Basics: Surf sonic sound waves in this off-beat class. We will explore how sounds are created and transmitted. Hear church bells ring through your fingers and music through your teeth. You wont believe your ears! |
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| 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. |
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| Stunt Planes and Gliders: The Wright brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps. Discover the fundamental principles of flight as we experiment with different plane designs. Build your very own loop-flying stunt planes to take home. |
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| Super Structures: Discover the strengths of triangles, cylinders, and arches. Learn how combinations of these shapes make for sturdy homes and skyscrapers. Use teamwork to build your own super structures as well as an earthquake-proof building! |
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| Under Pressure: Join Bernoulli and Newton as we take this exciting look at the science behind aerodynamics and the properties of airunder pressure. Use a vortex generator to create air pockets with a punch! |
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| Walloping Weather: Discover how hurricanes, tornadoes, and thunderstorms form, and how powerful they can be. Make your own pet tornado to take home youll be swept away watching the twisters form! |
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| Watts-Up: Learn about electricity, its properties and its role in natural phenomena. Make indoor lightning while conducting hair-raising experiments with our electrostatic generator! |
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| Whodunit?: Want to know who did it? Test your skills and learn how the pros do it through careful observation and techniques to handle evidence properly. Students will examine and chart evidence to reveal the guilty suspect. |
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| Wiggly Wiggly Worms: Become well acquainted with some squirmy, slimy wiggly, worms! Discover how they benefit our lives and eat like a worm! Make a mini-habitat where a worm could live and work. |
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| Virtual Volume: Examine the incredible world of volume. Test your understanding with our color mixing experiment. Use displacement to find out how much water a foot could hold! |
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