Students will discover substances and explore the differences between chemical and physical changes while experimenting with film canister rockets and endothermic and exothermic reactions.

Enhance your life science instruction, through the crosscutting concepts of structure and function, with one of our unique hands-on dissection workshops. Working with safe, nontoxic specimens, your students will gain firsthand evidence of body systems, new skills, and career inspiration. Select one: Grasshopper, Crayfish or Cow Eye

Dive into the world of invention as your students discover the invention process and historical inventors. Then they will work in groups to create their invention prototypes to solve a problem. 

Students learn to identify linkages in their daily lives and use their newfound knowledge to build a creation that moves. They'll unlock their creativity as they get hands-on experience with the engineering design process.

Travel with Wally the Walleye on his journey down the Maumee River into Lake Erie. Students will explore why water is such a valuable resource and learn ways to reduce the impacts of pollution.

Science and engineering are excellent ways to integrate social emotional learning (SEL) into your classroom. Current or future teachers learn ideas for implementing different engineering challenges, integrating SEL and a greater knowledge of how the science center can be a resource.

Worms and bugs can seem scary and gross. By observing these critters up close, learning more about their behaviors, and exploring their environmental benefits, we realize that they are vital to our world.

Your class will use the engineering design process to see the creative and dynamic side of this field as they work through an engineering challenge during a design and build.

Young learners will explore the world of robots through hands-on activities that encourage teamwork and communication. Guided by playful challenges and imaginative storytelling, students will have the opportunity to bring robotic creations to life.

Using everyday materials, students engineer their own pathways for marbles and try to successfully meet our design parameters as they get hands-on with the engineering process.

Students will dive into the engineering design process as they program robots to solve real-world challenges. Through collaboration, critical thinking, and creative experimentation, participants will strengthen their problem-solving skills while exploring the exciting possibilities of robotics.

Get down and dirty as your students learn about nature’s own recycling system: Decomposers! These important creatures break down organic matter and return it to the ecosystem for other creatures to use again and again. Students will participate in a hands-on investigation and get up-close and personal with real decomposers.

Let your students travel back in time using scientific inquiry to discover the prehistoric world. During this workshop, students will become paleontologists and dig for fossils to learn how scientists study creatures that disappeared 65 million years ago. Preschool and Kindergarten students will explore the same content with an added literacy component in a special workshop just for them–Little Big Dig!

Electric Energy, how does it work? Where can it come from? How do we use it?  We will answer these questions and more as your students engage in hands-on activities related to natural resources, conductors, circuitry and solar power. 

Learn about owls, their environments and be a part of science research! Your students will identify bones and collect data to learn more about owls, their diet and their digestive system.

Students will explore foundational coding concepts as they design algorithms to control robots. With a focus on creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving, participants will bring their ideas to life through interactive challenges and engaging technology.