Lab Works
Try your hand as a real Mad Scientist in this whirlwind program on how a lab works! Learn to manipulate laboratory equipment at your personal lab bench, and face an egg-citing power pipetting challenge! Take home your very own Scientific Cylinder™ to continue your research!
Junior Reactors
Create a tiny world of atoms with your very own set of Atomic Coins™! Learn to recognize chemical reactions and mix up a few reactive ingredients for some sensational results!
Phantastic p.H. Phestival
Slide down the colorful pH scale and dip into the world of acids and bases! Explore the extremes of pH with your Reaction Tube™ in what is sure to be a stopper-popping experience! Discover whether liquids found in your home are acids or bases using your personal Phantastic pH Paper™!
Slime Time
Ooze into a gooey hour of sliming around! Create slime using the Mad Science recipe, and then enter your creation in the Slime Olympics! Take home your own concoction of Mad Science Slime™!
The Glow Show
Amazing discoveries will come to light in this class on things that glow bright in the dark! Probe the properties of light and explore some unusual applications of glow-in-the-dark technology—including the printing of money! Use your Blacklight Writer™ to make secret messages that only you can see!
Dry Ice Capades
Manipulate matter in all of its three states! Melt metal in boiling water and freeze water with just a breath of dry ice! Use your Thermocolor Cup™ to test the temperature of liquid matter in your home!
Icky Sticky Stuff
Stick to the walls, and push the power of tape to the limits in this adhesive hour on things that cling! Build a bond with glue and get attached to your Icky Creature Beaker!
Chemistry Corner
Hop on the chemistry express for a high-speed science experience! Perform instantaneous experiments in this fast-paced class on reactions that go like mad! Pick up an Action Flask and perform some snappy chemistry experiments at home!
Detective Science
Our Cool Science Investigators explore the various methods employed by forensic scientists to help solve crimes, including fingerprint analysis, examination of dental records, and even investigate written materials. See detective work up close and take home your own Personal Profiler!
Science of Toys
Investigate unique items like vector toys and string things, illustrating the inventive nature of toy construction as well as scientific principles. Our Investigators will build their very own Jacob’s ladder toys to take home!
Secret Messages
Investigators will uncover the secrets hidden in Morse code, secret code wheels, and Goldenrod Messages! After learning the coding principles, students will get to take home their own secret Goldenrod messages!
The Mystery of the Secret Slime Formula
It’s OOEY! It’s GOOEY….it’s SLIME TIME!! Using deductive reasoning our investigators will solve the mystery of the secret slime formula. After uncovering the mystery of the secret slime, our Investigators will make their own cup of Mad Science Slime to take home!!
Science of Magic
Cool Science Investigators will explore popular magic tricks to uncover the mystery of whether magic or science is behind the tricks. Our explorers will learn how hydrophobic sand and dissected diapers help some of the greatest magicians wow the crowds!
Science of Art
What do science and art have in common? Investigate how art forgeries are detected by chemistry and physics and explore the properties of color and distorted images. Take home your own distorted image to draw!
Seeking our Senses
Sniff out the science of your 5 senses. Through hands-on experiments and activities students will have the opportunity to explore the importance of all 5 senses.
Dinosaurs
Join a dinosaur excavation and make your own T-Rex tooth. Our young scientists investigate the habits, needs and characteristics of dinosaurs as we explore the fossilization process.
Where's the Air
Learn about the air all around us and discover its amazing strength. We will investigate the concept of air pressure through hands-on activities that encourage students to interact with the principles of air pressure. They are given the opportunity to apply this knowledge while experimenting with their own flying paper copters!
Black & Blue Oceans
Investigate environmental issues relating to our water system. Through a hands-on approach students explore the effects of, and difficulties in cleaning up oil spills.
Electricity
Get electrified!!! This workshop introduces students to the fundamental concepts of electricity. Through hands-on activities students gain a better understanding of electrical circuits and the basic elements of electricity.
Mineral Mania
Grasp the geological formation process! Students explore concepts of the geological formation process, classification systems, identification methods, and physical properties of rocks and minerals through inquiry based hands-on learning.
Mission Nutrition
Introduce children to the basics of nutrition including the role of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. This program increases the knowledge of children, stimulates enthusiasm for personal health, and encourages our mad scientists to have a healthy attitude toward nutrition and fitness through hands-on activities.
Stunt Planes
We will fly students through the basics of flight and aerodynamics. Students will build and get the opportunity to test out various designs of different paper aircraft and learn how to make their very own aerodynamic aircraft soar!
Walloping Weather
An excellent introduction to the science of meteorology and the forces of nature! Students will be able to apply their newly acquired knowledge from this class when they experience the changes in weather that occur naturally everyday.
Cells
This workshop provides students with an introduction to the components of cells. Through hands on activities and inquiry-based teaching methods, students develop their scientific skills while learning all about cells.
Earth Awareness
How are we hurting Mother Earth? Discover how science will help us protect our planet. Children will understand the basics of water pollution, acid rain, and the benefits of solar energy. By actively recycling their own garbage, they will make their very own paper to take home and actually use!
At the Scene of the Crime
Students are introduced to the notion of observation and its importance as part of the scientific method. Several forensic techniques are employed throughout the course to solve a mock crime.
Sound
Did you hear that??SEE what a sound wave looks like! Discover how air pressure and other factors affect the way sound travels through some super cool experiments and hands on examples!
Planets & 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 a Kepler's Cube, a fun 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!
Space Phenomena
Probe the mysteries of meteors and bounce around satellite light in this phenomenal program on space events! See comets up close as one is formed before your eyes, and take home your very own Catch a Comet!
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.
Rocket Science
This is your chance to be a rocket scientist! Investigate the four forces of flight with the help of a Unique Flying Object! Explore the science involved in rocket construction as you build your own SkyBlazer II Rocket that you can take home!
Space Travel
Learn what it takes to be a true globetrotter! Race a balloon rocket and design your own car engine as you learn about thrust. See the principles of propulsion at work in a real rocket launch, and build your very own Shuttle Copter to fly the skies.
Space Technology
Discover technology designed for outer space! Steer a laser beam through a laser maze, find hidden mountains using the principle of radar technology and discover everyday objects originally designed for use in space! Take home a Lightening Launcher that will light up the sky.
Living in Space
Experience the life of an astronaut as you suit up for space flight! Use teamwork to complete an important space mission, build a model space station and make your very own Cosmic Chronometer watch to measure the time here on Earth!
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.
Jr. Detectives
Are detectives really scientists in disguise? Discover what it takes to be a detective in this hands-on look at detective science. Using powers of observations and the Inspectikit, our young scientists will have all they need to get started on their detective adventure.
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. Students will make and take home their own Secret Code Breaker to communicate stealthily at home, like real spies.
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. With the Undercover Observer, that students make and take home, they will step into the shoes of a spy in action. The viewer allows them to observe visually; a key skill for agents undercover!
Sleuths on the Scene
Suspects, schematics, and sleuths… oh my! Connect the dots using science to help solve a crime in this hands-on investigation at the science of sleuthing. Students continue their sleuthing at home using their Scene Solver take home to reconstruct the scene of a crime with family and friends.
Whodunit?
What to know who did it? Test your skills and learn how the pros do it through careful observation and techniques to handle evidence properly. Using their Whodunit Kit take home, students can practice the skills of recall and observation—they are provided with character descriptions to reconstruct the face of the suspect! Provided answer keys give them feedback on their skills.
Funky Forensics
Figure out the science of forensics in this hands-on look at crime scenes. Evidence collection and puzzle making will lead them to understand why forensic scientists like to understand the complete picture before they make decisions. Students will use their Case Stamper take home to probe the science of tracking—they will stamp out a scenario on a case card according to a pre-determined story.
Crime Lab
Got clues? Analyze clues and get hot on the trail of a culprit with the Crime Lab program. With the spynoculars take home, students safely observe clues from afar. The buildyour-own binoculars are used to test the limits of magnified observation and are a diverting way to use observational skills.
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Mad Science can enhance your science program with inquiry-based workshops that meet state and provincial curriculum requirements! Structured 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 sixth grade children truly engaging learning experiences. Dozens of workshop topics are available. 
