Mad Science can enhance your science program with inquiry-based workshops that meet state curriculum requirements!  As an in-class field trip, a Mad Science workshop is a convenient way to offer students a hands-on science experience without leaving the school.  With professional lesson plans, unique equipment and animated instructors, Mad Science workshops offer preschool to fifth grade children truly engaging learning experiences.  Call us about or featured workshop topics.

 

Fantastic Flyers:  The Wright Brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps and learn the fundamental principles of flight. Build different types of stunt planes and gliders. Experiment with trick planes and have a contest to see who can build the farthest flying glider! You’ll be Top Gun after this class!

Slime Time:  Ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around! Create slime using the Mad Science recipe, and then enter the Slime Olympics! Take home your own concoction of Mad Science Slime!

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!

Fun-damental Forces:  Gravity... Inertia... Centripetal force... who could ever imagine that an introduction to physics could be so much fun? Well experience these awesome forces for ourselves and build some cool devices to watch them at work!

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Mystery of the Secret Slime:  Who dunnit? Use your detective skills to figure out which Mad Scientist made the amazing secret slime! Test inks, chemicals and fingerprints to solve the mystery. Then make your own batch of slime!

Space, The Final Frontier:  our mission is… to explore why people are fascinated by the stars and planets. Create your own soapy galaxy! Observe a comet created before your eyes. See how stars produce raw materials and what happens when meteorites strike the earth. Launch your own squeeze rocket and bring it home.

Dry Ice Storm:  Explore the 3 states of matter when children become atoms! Build a giant bubbling potion and carbonate plain drinking water. Taste a burp and create the same awesome smoke illusions used in the movies. Take a Mad Science Bubble Bath before getting your own thermo color drinking utensil!

Harnessing Heat:  Witness a mini rocket launch while learning the properties of heat. Use balloons and other objects to observe the effects of heat, even see a can implode! Transform sugar into floss as you make cotton candy that you can eat!

Dinosaurs (for K-2):  Discover what Dinosaurs were, what they ate and where they went. Learn about excavating and recovering fossils. What do dinosaur skeletons tell us about their build and habits? How big were they really? What do their teeth tell us? Bring these long gone creatures into the technological era when you build your very own Dinosaur CD rack!

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Planets and Moons:  Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse in this “mad” planetary tour! Learn how the planets stack up. Build and take home Kepler’s Cube, a fun and educational 3-D solar system puzzle!

Atmosphere & Beyond:  We’re on a mission to explore the atmosphere on Earth, and beyond! Travel to the end of the rainbow and make a sunset! Mix up various planetary atmospheres, one molecule at a time! Discover how stars would look in space and see what makes stars twinkle using your very own Shimmering Stars!

Sun & Stars:  This stellar program is your ticket to the stars! Watch star dust burn, and journey through a soapy galaxy as you investigate the life cycle of stars! Use your Bead Dipper to create a 3-dimensional glow-in-the-dark constellation! 

Space Technology:  Discover technology designed for outer space! Steer a laser beam through a laser maze, find hidden mountains using the principles of radar technology and discover everyday objects originally designed for use in space! Take home a Lightning Launcher that will light up the sky!

The Mad Science End Of Grade (EOG) Testing workshop series is designed to supplement your school’s current science curriculum by using hands-on experiments and exciting demonstrations to increase student’s understanding of the objectives outlined in the NC Standard Course of Study (SCS).

• Four unique, hour-long workshops designed to address the specific skills and concepts defined under each SCS objective.
• Student’s attention is focused by using visual, tactile, and auditory teaching methods.
• Supplemental guides are included that outline additional activities to do before and after the workshops to extend the learning.
• Workshops are led by experienced instructors, using professional lesson plans, materials and equipment.
• A national independent research study found our methodology
  1. Significantly increases science content knowledge,
  2. Increases interest in science in low and moderate interest students and
  3. Increases students’ attitude that “science is fun”. 

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