Workshops by Grade Level

Grades K-2:

Life Science
Ins and Outs of Digestion
What happend to your breakfast today? Discover how we get energy from our food by making a group model of digestion in this popular workshop.

SSSenses
Meet a sssensational snake and discover how it and other animals use their senses. Exercise and learn about your own senses with hands-on activities.

Slither Hither
This workshop is a more active, hands-on version of Rockin' Reptiles, an Imaginarium favorite. Students will have opportunities to get face-to-face with some of our reptile friends and see what each reptile uses to survive in its home environment.

Life on the Edge
(available at The Imaginarium only)
Visit sea stars and other marine creatures at The Imaginarium's touch tanks. Students will see and feel how the bodies of different marine invertebrates are made for living in different marine environments.

Physical Science
Magnetic Mayhem
What's that stuck to the fridge? Magnets, of course! Students will try "fishing" with magnets, experiment with magnets on different objects, and even try wearing magnets in this attractive workshop.

What Matters
What's the matter with you? Young learners will discover what really "matters" as they explore what makes up our world and how it changes. Students will have fun conducting experiments and describing to their friends what they see.

Earth Science
Soil Seekers
(available at The Imaginarium only)
Whether you're talking about nutrition or building a house, dirt is where it's at! Scratch the surface of the Earth's many layers and discover how water and time affect our precious soils.

Moons & Meteors
This high-impact workshop focuses on meteors and the planets in our solar system. You'll conduct experiments to see how meteorites change a planet's surface and learn what role a planet's or moon's atmosphere plays in celestial collisions.

Grades 3-5:

Life Science
Ins and Outs of Digestion (Advanced)
Practice your gutsiest moves as you travel through the digestive system. Explore the many reasons we eat and check out the path our meal takes from the first bite to the end of the track. Best of all, work with your friends to make an ooey-gooey model of the human digestive system.

Floating Food
Can you build a sea creature that sinks oh-so-slowly? Test your design abilities and learn how plankton is an oh-so-important part of our oceans.

Bare Bones
Back by popular demand! Even hard-headed students appreciate spending time with our diverse animal skull and bone collections. Come explore bone functions, characteristics, and shapes in everything from teeth to toes.

Brain Scan
Explore the space between your ears! Students will dissect sheep's brains in a quest for what makes animals (including us) tick.

Slither Hither
This workshop is a more active, hands-on version of Rockin' Reptiles, an Imaginarium favorite. Students will have opportunities to get face-to-face with some of our reptile friends and see what each reptile uses to survive in its home environment.

Physical Science
Static Cling
Indoor lightning? You bet! This workshop has hands-on activities that show you what lightning is, how it works, and what its got in common with the socks in your dryer!

Changing Spots
You've found the solution! Students combine acids and bases to explore the two fundamentals that make up our world, matter and energy, in this fast-paced workshop.

Cold Hard Facts
This workshop is a more active, hands-on version of The Big Chill, and Imaginarium favorite. Students explore the strange properties of dry ice through hands-on activities, and see what other wonders liquid nitrogen can do!

Earth Science
Rocks Rock!
What kind of rocks float? What rocks are the best for climbing? Using the rock cycle as their guide, students will answer these questions and more by following rocks on their journeys from formation to disintegration and back again.

Orbital Action
Gravity doesn't have to be a heavy subject! In this workshop, students build a planetary model and visit a planetarium to learn about the size, scale and orbital paths of the planets in our solar system.

Grades 6-8:

Life Science
Slither Hither
This workshop is a more active, hands-on version of Rockin' Reptiles, an Imaginarium favorite. Students will have opportunities to get face-to-face with some of our reptile friends and see what each reptile uses to survive in its home environment.

Eye-Eye
What's inside an eye like ours and how does it work? Find out how we "see the light" by dissecting a cow eye and comparing and contrasting the anatomy and function of the human eye with the cow eye.

Poke a Squid
Squid use pens with their ink! Find out how by dissecting squid and comparing their anatomy to ours and learning how structural differences among organisms are related to their habitats.

Physical Science
Missing & Morphed
Don't be fooled! A middle-school mystery awaits. Find out what's gone missing in this workshop as students use math skills and scientific methods to discover what happens to matter during a chemical reaction.

Electromagnificence
Discover the power of magnets and electricity working together by buidling an electromagnet, creating a galvanometer, and using electromagnetic forces to launch objects.

Earth Science
Shake, Rattle & Roll
Have you ever felt an earthquake? You don't have to live in Alaska to experience one. Find out why in this earth-shaking workshop. Students will investigate plate tectonic movement through hands-on simulation, touch rocks shaped by these geologic forces, and check out a seismograph.

Stellar Inception
Ever wanted to be a rock star? Get in touch with some of the most powerful (and popular) objects in the Universe. This workshop focuses on the life cycle of a star, from inception to implosion, and includes plenty of planetarium time.