Our Grades K-6 Workshop Themes
Slime Time
The Mad Science slime recipe is revealed in this ooey gooey chemistry class! Students will learn about slime and its basic ingredients in a series of hands-on activities. Varied concoctions of slime will stir up in scientific style, and the properties of slime will be tested in a team-spirited fashion at the Slime Olympics!
Optical Illusions
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us. This workshop will help you understand the phenomenon of optical illusions. Several experiments await you to test your brain!
Watts-Up
With the help of a Van der Graff generator, you will experience different principles related to static electricity. You’ll leave with your hair standing on end!
Lights... Color... Action!
How do we know that a red apple is red? Light acts on objects and this is what you will discover during the experiments in this workshop. A rainbow will make an appearance during the workshop and you even find out what ultra-violet light is. Keep your eyes peeled!
Science of Magic
Kids examine fossil casts and explore the differences in the teeth of herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs. Students participate in a mini dinosaur excavation and make a cast of a dinosaur tooth to take home.
Fantastic Flyers
Take flight into the world of aeronautics as you discover how the 4 forces of flight help things soar into the sky. Build all kinds of paper aircraft and make a Skyhawk plane to take home to continue your high flying adventure!!
Super Structures
Calling all junior engineers! Test out the basics of architectural design and structural engineering in this hands-on class about structures. Explore how triangles, arches and bridges shape our structures and apply some engineering to your very own bridge.
Dry Ice Capades
Dry ice—the star of the show—used in a series of tests, under the guidance of the instructor. Children use balloons to help visualize the volumetric difference between matter in solid and gaseous states.
Detective Science
The children examine fingerprints, mystery powders, ink samples, and teeth impressions. They also practice their memory skills to create a composite! Analyzing all the evidence is what helps pinpoint the perpetrator.
Lab Works
Students become lab scientists-in-training in this whirlwind program on laboratory techniques! Each student will learn to manipulate an assortment of lab equipment in a series of hands-on activities.
Magnetic Magic
How does the needle of a compass work? Using magnets, you will learn what exactly is magnetism. Different magnets will be used in order to test their usefulness and ability. In addition, you’ll make a mini electromagnet… and learn what exactly an electro magnet is!
Junior Reactors
A demonstration of the differences between physical and chemical reactions is followed by a hands-on series of experiments. The relative size of an atom is introduced in a cutting edge race as the children try to reduce a strip of paper down to its atomic size!
pH Phactor
Students explore the chemistry of acids and bases in this fascinating one-hour program on the pH scale. The Phantastic pH test is applied to common household chemicals.
Planets and Moons
Explore the farthest reaches of our solar system and create a lunar eclipse on our home planet. See the size difference between the Earth and its moon. Build your very own Mad Science Gravity Assisted Launcher to simulate how gravitational pull affects a probe in space.
Walloping Weather
A demonstration using heat sensitive paper and a flashlight brings to light the reasons for seasons. Children discover how air affects weather, and perform a test to prove that air is everywhere. Children try out tools that meteorologists use to measure weather. .
Robots
Mad Robots explores the concept that science and technology go hand in hand. Children circulate learning centers to control an automaton through sound, remote control and move a robot through a maze.
Space Travel
Learn what it takes to be a true globetrotter! Race a 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 Mad Science Space Copter to fly to the skies!
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