Join the adventure in our special Animal Exhibit room for a special adventure with our Owens animal friends. Students will observe live animals and explore what they need to survive while participating in several hands-on activities.

First grade students practice observing as they focus on the special features of live animals and plants, while identifying how they compare. Visitors experience skills of sorting, matching, observing, drawing and manipulating stations, and to stroke an animal, before briefly visiting our outdoor classroom's biome!

Take a journey across Earth to explore where water can be found, as liquid or ice. Then, search the solar system for evidence of water on worlds like Mars, Europa, and even Pluto. Along the way, discover the true scale of our cosmic neighborhood.

Students join the brother and sister team Jack and Annie on an adventure to answer questions about space. We will collect evidence to justify a claim made in the story, identify climates on other planets, and select the best items to bring with us on a journey into outer space.

Students participating in the Science Center's Third Grade Ozobot Computer Science Engineering Program will learn how to code robotic platforms using both visual color patterns and coding editors to program a miniature Ozobot robot to implement a series of fun tasks meeting specified outcome criteria.

Students explore how messages can be sent and received using light and sound with a variety of materials including coding a micro:bit. They leave with an understanding of how coding patterns can transfer information in a variety of ways!

Students participating in the Science Center's Fourth Grade Ozobot Evo Computer Science Engineering Program will learn about coding robotic platforms as they use both visual and coding editors to program a miniature Ozobot robot to implement a series of fun tasks meeting specified outcome criteria.

Fourth grade students ignite their curiosity as they engage in learning with toys! Science filled toys help them identify energy transferred or transformed through sound, light, heat and electrical objects!

Students put their lab skills to work during this field trip exploring invertebrates responses to a variety of stimuli (light, temperature, moisture). They modify an existing apparatus to meet the criteria and then conduct an investigation.

This banded program for grades 5–8 reviews key astronomy concepts, including moon phases (6th grade), eclipses (8th grade), seasons (7th grade), and how the stars' positions change with the seasons (5th grade). Test your knowledge and deepen your understanding in the immersive environment of the planetarium.

What's in the sky tonight? Discover how stars can be connected to form shapes and patterns in the night sky. Join Sammy the Spider on an adventure filled with stories among the stars!

Students enjoy this hands-on, team-work approach to creating and building structures! Young builders first warm-up while engaging with attractive table objects to be constructed within a timed interval, then graduate to taking on the responsibility of a 'student-sized structure' that protects them from the hot sun.