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Explore science with a hands-on Science experience at your meetings. With professional lesson plans, unique equipment, and animated instructors Mad Science Workshops offer the children truly engaging learning experiences. Mad Science Workshops help meet Brownie, Guides, Cubs, and Scout badge requirements.
The Mad Scientist comes with the kit of experiments and works with the children at your location. During the hour there are demonstrations by the Mad Scientist, hands on activities for the children, and always an individual activity with a take-home product for each one. The fee also includes a set of Pre/Post notes for the leaders with fun experiments that you can do with the children as well as resource information.
As the workshop includes many hands-on experiments for the children we prefer to have no more than 25 children in the group in order to maximize the children’s enjoyment and learning experience.
Sample Topics
Ø Space … The Final Frontier
These are the voyages of young, inquiring minds on a quest to discover Space! Their mission: to take an exciting look at planets, moons, comets, and the stars … to boldly go where bright young minds love to go. (Space suits not required.)
Ø Seeking our Senses
Explore all five senses. Test your vision with optical illusions, experiment with your hearing, and try your hand at reading Braille.
Ø Stunt Planes & Gliders
The Wright Brothers would be proud as we follow in their footsteps and learn the fundamental principles of flight. Build a “football” glider, and then make your very own Whitewings Paper/Balsa airplane … You’ll be a Top Gun after this class!
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Ø Mineral Mania
Recreate the process of rock formation and the process of rock and mineral classification. Experience the thrill of panning for gems: the gems you find you can take home for further study and identification.
Ø Black and Blue Oceans
Students will devise and test oil spill techniques in a minor oil spill. They will also explore the causes and remedies for acid rain through PH testing and monitoring methods.
Ø Matter of Fact
Explore molecules and how they are held together. See the dramatic differences between physical and chemical changes as you make up a batch of your very own Mad Science putty.
Ø 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!
Ø 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 (and make your own too!) with a punch, and levitate ping-pong balls in defiance of gravity.
Ø Che-Mystery
Eliminate the mystery in chemistry! Explore one of the most exciting and fundamental sciences as you grow a crazy crystal garden and make your own “chemical” soda pop!
Ø The Dirt on Garbage
Become a caretaker of the Earth and get a hands-on look at ways to help reduce our garbage, re-use what we cannot reduce and create ways to recycle! Hands on activities and interactive demonstrations will illustrate to children their role in improving the planet.
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