Linking PA Academic Standards

TITLE	Subject Area	Pre K	K	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Balancing Acts	Forces & Motion		■	■	■
Chemical Excitement	Chemistry							■
DNA, Inheritance, and Mutations	Biology								■	■	■
Dr. Watt's	Electricity			■	■	■	■	■	■	■	■
Exploring Nanotechnology	Chemistry								■	■	■
Forensics	General Science							■	■	■	■
Lights, Color, Action!	Light		■	■	■	■	■
Maximum Voltage	Electricity					■	■	■
Messy Method	Chemistry		■	■
Ocean Life	Biology	■	■	■	■
Pennsylvania Rocks	Geology					■	■	■
Roller Coaster Madness	Forces &Motion								■	■	■
See Like A Bee!	Biology			■	■
Slime Science	Chemistry				■	■	■
Thrill Ride	Forces & Motion					■	■	■
Walk Like the Dinosaurs	General Science	■	■
What's That? It's Scat!	Biology					■	■	■

Unless otherwise noted, all of these are hands on laboratory workshops. One program of your choice is included with the cost of admission, $7.25 per student.

Title of Program	Grade Level	Description	PDE Assessment Anchor Eligible Content S=Science M=Math	Program Length
Balancing Acts	K-2	Students will be introduced to concepts of counterweights, lever and fulcrum. They will complete several balance challenges, including balancing the class instructor and balancing 6 nails on the head of one!	S4.A.3.2.3 S4.C.3.1.1 S4.C.3.1.3 M3.B.2.1.1 M3.E.1.1.1 M3.E.1.1.2	25 min
Chemical Excitement	5	Do your students like mixing things together? Then this is the workshop for them! Explore the world of chemistry as you observe reactions of your own choosing!	S8.A.1.3.2 S8.C.1.1.3 S8.C.2.1.3	50 min
DNA, Inheritance, and Mutations	6-8	Students will extract their own DNA and compare it to DNA of other living things. Take a closer look at fruit flies and use mutants to observe patterns of inheritance!	S8.A.1.3.1 S8.A.1.3.2 S8.B.2.1.4 S8.B.2.1.3 S8.B.2.2.2 M6.D.1.2.1 M6.E.3.1.1 M7.E.3.1.1 M8.E.3.1.1	50 min
Dr. Watt’s	1-8	This high energy demonstration letsstudents participate in experiments that raise their hair and light a bulb with their bare hands to figure out how electricity works.	S4.A.2.1.1 S4.C.2.1.1 S4.C.2.1.2 S4.C.2.1.3 S8.C.2.1.1	25 min
Exploring Nanotechnology	6-8	Nanotechnology is the new science buzz word, but what is it? In this introductory class, students will explore a process called biomimetics and conduct experiments with hydrophobic (water fearing) and hydrophilic (water loving) materials.	S8.A.1.2.1 S8.A.1.2.2 S8.A.1.3.1 S8.A.2.1.4 S8.A.2.1.5 S8.A.2.2.1 S8.A.2.2.2 S8.A.2.2.3 S8.A.3.2.2 S8.B.1.1.1 M6.A.3.2.1 M7.A.1.1.1 M7.A.2.1.1 M7.A.2.2.3 M7.A.2.2.5 M7.A.3.2.1 M7.A.3.2.2 M8.A.3.1.1 M8.A.3.3.1	50 min
Forensics	6-8	The Da Vinci Science Center has experienced a crime and needs your help to solve it! Techniques used may include fiber analysis, chromatography and fingerprinting.	S8.A.1.1.3 S8.A.1.1.4 S8.A.2.2.3 S8.A.3.3.2 S8.A.3.3.1	50 min
Lights, Color, Action!	K-4	Demonstration program. Investigate light and color like never before! Students explore colored shadows, fireflies, and fireworks!	S4.C.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.1	25 min
Maximum Voltage	3-5	Make your own battery and see how it works. Design your own experiment to find the best electrodes to make the maximum voltage!	S4.A.2.1.2 S4.A.2.1.4 S4.A.2.2.1 S4.A.3.2.3 S4.C.2.1.2 S4.C.2.1.3 M5.E.1.1.1 M4.E.1.1.1 M3.E.1.1.2	25 min
Messy Method	K-1	What’s in that slime? To solve the mystery of the slime, your students get to do some cool chemical reactions!	S4.C.1.1.1 S4.A.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.4 M3.E.1.1.2	25 min
Ocean Life	K-2	Hear a story about life in the sea. Visit our live sea animals. Explore many shapes and sizes that ocean animals can be! Make a fish rubbing to take home.	S4.A.3.2.2 S4.B.1.1.2 S4.B.1.1.4	25 min
Pennsylvania Rocks!	3-5	Explore real Pennsylvania rocks and fossils. Create a model to demonstrate one way that mountains can be formed. Try to answer the question “How are fossils of seashells found on mountaintops?”	S4.A.3.2.2 S4.D.1.1.1 S4.D.1.1.2	25 min
Roller Coaster Madness	6-8	How can you make a roller coaster go faster? Use a marble and some other materials to design your own coaster, calculate its speed and change variables to make it go even faster!	S8.A.2.1.3 S8.A.2.1.4 S8.A.2.1.6 S8.A.2.2.1 S8.A.2.2.2 S8.A.3.2.2 S8.C.3.1.1 S8.C.3.1.2 M6.A.3.2.1 M7.A.3.2.1 M8.A.3.3.1	50 min
See Like A Bee!	1-2	Bees and other insects have a unique view of the world. Try their eyes on for size and see how simple it is to get food from a flower. See how ultraviolet light and color affects how bees find food! Before or after this workshop, remember to see our live bee hive in the What on Earth? exhibit area!	S4.B.1.1.2 S4.B.2.1.2 S4.C.2.1.2	25 min
Slime Science	2-4	Students learn how to do an experiment and control a variable. They make and test their slime to see which is best!	S4.C.1.1.1 S4.C.1.1.2 S4.A.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.2 S4.A.2.1.4 M5.E.1.1.1 M5.E.3.1.1	50 min
Thrill Ride	3-5	How do roller coasters work? Why don’t you fall off in a loop? Use a marble to test and find out why in this thrilling workshop!	S4.A.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.2 S4.A.2.2.1 S4.A.2.1.4 S4.A.3.2.3 S4.C.2.1.1 S4.C.2.1.2 S4.C.3.1.1 S4.C.3.1.2	50 min
Walk Like the Dinosaurs!	Pre K-K	Step into a prehistoric world and follow fossil footprints from dinosaurs big and small with this new workshop –	SR.A.2.1.1 S4.A.3.2.1 S4.B.1.1.2
What's That? It's Scat!	3-5	Solve the clues that animals leave behind - scat (or droppings)! Find out what information you can learn about an animal's place in the food web as you explore the shape and sizes of scat. See scat from native Pennsyulvania species as well as some more exotic types!	S4.A.3.1.3 S4.A.3.2.1 S4.B.1.1.1 S4.B.1.1.3 S4.B.3.1.2 S4.B.3.2.1 S8.A.3.1.3 S8.A.1.1.3

Unless otherwise noted, all of these are hands on laboratory workshops. One program of your choice is included with the cost of admission, $7.25 per student

TITLE	Subject Area	Pre K	K	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Balancing Acts	Forces & Motion		■	■	■
Chemical Excitement	Chemistry							■
DNA, Inheritance, and Mutations	Biology								■	■	■
Dr. Watt's	Electricity			■	■	■	■	■	■	■	■
Exploring Nanotechnology	Chemistry								■	■	■
Forensics	General Science							■	■	■	■
Lights, Color, Action!	Light		■	■	■	■	■
Maximum Voltage	Electricity					■	■	■
Messy Method	Chemistry		■	■
Ocean Life	Biology	■	■	■	■
Pennsylvania Rocks	Geology					■	■	■
Roller Coaster Madness	Forces &Motion								■	■	■
See Like A Bee!	Biology			■	■
Slime Science	Chemistry				■	■	■
Thrill Ride	Forces & Motion					■	■	■
Walk Like the Dinosaurs	General Science	■	■
What's That? It's Scat!	Biology					■	■	■

Unless otherwise noted, all of these are hands on laboratory workshops. One program of your choice is included with the cost of admission, $7.25 per student.

Title of Program	Grade Level	Description	PDE Assessment Anchor Eligible Content S=Science M=Math	Program Length
Balancing Acts	K-2	Students will be introduced to concepts of counterweights, lever and fulcrum. They will complete several balance challenges, including balancing the class instructor and balancing 6 nails on the head of one!	S4.A.3.2.3 S4.C.3.1.1 S4.C.3.1.3 M3.B.2.1.1 M3.E.1.1.1 M3.E.1.1.2	25 min
Chemical Excitement	5	Do your students like mixing things together? Then this is the workshop for them! Explore the world of chemistry as you observe reactions of your own choosing!	S8.A.1.3.2 S8.C.1.1.3 S8.C.2.1.3	50 min
DNA, Inheritance, and Mutations	6-8	Students will extract their own DNA and compare it to DNA of other living things. Take a closer look at fruit flies and use mutants to observe patterns of inheritance!	S8.A.1.3.1 S8.A.1.3.2 S8.B.2.1.4 S8.B.2.1.3 S8.B.2.2.2 M6.D.1.2.1 M6.E.3.1.1 M7.E.3.1.1 M8.E.3.1.1	50 min
Dr. Watt’s	1-8	This high energy demonstration letsstudents participate in experiments that raise their hair and light a bulb with their bare hands to figure out how electricity works.	S4.A.2.1.1 S4.C.2.1.1 S4.C.2.1.2 S4.C.2.1.3 S8.C.2.1.1	25 min
Exploring Nanotechnology	6-8	Nanotechnology is the new science buzz word, but what is it? In this introductory class, students will explore a process called biomimetics and conduct experiments with hydrophobic (water fearing) and hydrophilic (water loving) materials.	S8.A.1.2.1 S8.A.1.2.2 S8.A.1.3.1 S8.A.2.1.4 S8.A.2.1.5 S8.A.2.2.1 S8.A.2.2.2 S8.A.2.2.3 S8.A.3.2.2 S8.B.1.1.1 M6.A.3.2.1 M7.A.1.1.1 M7.A.2.1.1 M7.A.2.2.3 M7.A.2.2.5 M7.A.3.2.1 M7.A.3.2.2 M8.A.3.1.1 M8.A.3.3.1	50 min
Forensics	6-8	The Da Vinci Science Center has experienced a crime and needs your help to solve it! Techniques used may include fiber analysis, chromatography and fingerprinting.	S8.A.1.1.3 S8.A.1.1.4 S8.A.2.2.3 S8.A.3.3.2 S8.A.3.3.1	50 min
Lights, Color, Action!	K-4	Demonstration program. Investigate light and color like never before! Students explore colored shadows, fireflies, and fireworks!	S4.C.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.1	25 min
Maximum Voltage	3-5	Make your own battery and see how it works. Design your own experiment to find the best electrodes to make the maximum voltage!	S4.A.2.1.2 S4.A.2.1.4 S4.A.2.2.1 S4.A.3.2.3 S4.C.2.1.2 S4.C.2.1.3 M5.E.1.1.1 M4.E.1.1.1 M3.E.1.1.2	25 min
Messy Method	K-1	What’s in that slime? To solve the mystery of the slime, your students get to do some cool chemical reactions!	S4.C.1.1.1 S4.A.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.4 M3.E.1.1.2	25 min
Ocean Life	K-2	Hear a story about life in the sea. Visit our live sea animals. Explore many shapes and sizes that ocean animals can be! Make a fish rubbing to take home.	S4.A.3.2.2 S4.B.1.1.2 S4.B.1.1.4	25 min
Pennsylvania Rocks!	3-5	Explore real Pennsylvania rocks and fossils. Create a model to demonstrate one way that mountains can be formed. Try to answer the question “How are fossils of seashells found on mountaintops?”	S4.A.3.2.2 S4.D.1.1.1 S4.D.1.1.2	25 min
Roller Coaster Madness	6-8	How can you make a roller coaster go faster? Use a marble and some other materials to design your own coaster, calculate its speed and change variables to make it go even faster!	S8.A.2.1.3 S8.A.2.1.4 S8.A.2.1.6 S8.A.2.2.1 S8.A.2.2.2 S8.A.3.2.2 S8.C.3.1.1 S8.C.3.1.2 M6.A.3.2.1 M7.A.3.2.1 M8.A.3.3.1	50 min
See Like A Bee!	1-2	Bees and other insects have a unique view of the world. Try their eyes on for size and see how simple it is to get food from a flower. See how ultraviolet light and color affects how bees find food! Before or after this workshop, remember to see our live bee hive in the What on Earth? exhibit area!	S4.B.1.1.2 S4.B.2.1.2 S4.C.2.1.2	25 min
Slime Science	2-4	Students learn how to do an experiment and control a variable. They make and test their slime to see which is best!	S4.C.1.1.1 S4.C.1.1.2 S4.A.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.2 S4.A.2.1.4 M5.E.1.1.1 M5.E.3.1.1	50 min
Thrill Ride	3-5	How do roller coasters work? Why don’t you fall off in a loop? Use a marble to test and find out why in this thrilling workshop!	S4.A.2.1.1 S4.A.2.1.2 S4.A.2.2.1 S4.A.2.1.4 S4.A.3.2.3 S4.C.2.1.1 S4.C.2.1.2 S4.C.3.1.1 S4.C.3.1.2	50 min
Walk Like the Dinosaurs!	Pre K-K	Step into a prehistoric world and follow fossil footprints from dinosaurs big and small with this new workshop –	SR.A.2.1.1 S4.A.3.2.1 S4.B.1.1.2
What's That? It's Scat!	3-5	Solve the clues that animals leave behind - scat (or droppings)! Find out what information you can learn about an animal's place in the food web as you explore the shape and sizes of scat. See scat from native Pennsyulvania species as well as some more exotic types!	S4.A.3.1.3 S4.A.3.2.1 S4.B.1.1.1 S4.B.1.1.3 S4.B.3.1.2 S4.B.3.2.1 S8.A.3.1.3 S8.A.1.1.3

Unless otherwise noted, all of these are hands on laboratory workshops. One program of your choice is included with the cost of admission, $7.25 per student