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Exciting School Programs
(Offered September - June)
- Discovery based hands-on learning
- Age and grade appropriate activities
- Programs designed to suit your
curriculum
- The following programs are not
offered during school vacations. Please contact the Museum if you
are interested in school vacation offerings.
RI Grade Space Expectations
are provided for all programs. Other standards references are
available on request.
Earth Science and Geology Workshops:
Geology Detectives (Grades 1-2)
ESS1(K-2)-1, PS1(K-2)-1
Can you pick granite out of a rock lineup? Become a geology detective!
Learn about the three types of rocks and how they form. Then use your
detective skills to identify rock, mineral, and fossil specimens, using
their unique characteristics.
Mineral Mania
(Grades 3-4)
RI GSEs: ESS1 (3-4)-1
Experience mineral mania at the museum! Students will test the
properties of different rocks and minerals. Spectacular rock and
mineral specimens from the Museum’s collections are sure to delight
students and show them why geology rocks!
Our Dynamic Earth (Grades 5-6)
RI GSEs: ESS1(5-6)-1, ESS1(5-6)-5
Discover the forces that keep our Earth constantly changing. Students
will learn to think like geologists as they move through interactive
investigation stations packed with specimens from the Museum’s
collections.
Rhode Island Rocks! (Grades 7-8)
RI GSEs: ESS1(7-8)-1, ESS1(7-8)-3
The smallest state has a big past! Students will discover how the
processes of plate tectonics, glaciers, erosion and more have shaped
Rhode Island through its history, and recreate its past through fossil
and geological evidence.
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Space
Science Workshops:
Space Capades (Grades K-2)
RI GSEs: ESS2(K-2)-7
Students will have a BLAST learning about space and space travel in
this exciting workshop. After learning how astronauts live and work in
space, students will build their own rockets from craft materials and use
their imagination to launch them into space!
Our Magnificent Moon (Grades 3-4)
RI GSEs: ESS2(3-4)-7, ESS2(3-4)-8
Discover our Moon, our closest neighbor in space. From the historic
Apollo missions to a future Moon base, students will learn about the
past, present and future of Moon exploration. Students will use what
they have learned to design and build their own lunar spacecraft.
Toys in Space (Grades 5-6)
RI GSEs: PS3(5-6)-8
Discover the laws of physics in a weightless environment – space! In
1993, the Space Shuttle Endeavor carried a locker full of toys into
space for the purpose of teaching students the concepts of force and
motion. Students will experiment will a range of toys and hypothesize
about how they would work in space, then put their guesses to the test
by seeing the same toys being used in space!
Mission to Mars (Grades 7-8)
RI GSEs: ESS2 (5-8) MAS-6, ESS1 (7-8)-3, ET2.1 (7-8), ET2.3 (7-8)
The rocks and soil of Mars hold many clues to the planet’s history.
Students will explore the astonishing robotic spacecraft that are
exploring the answers to our questions about Mars, and will have to
think like NASA engineers in a design challenge to build a soil scoop
for testing the rusty Martian soil.
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New!
Cultural Workshop:
People and Places (Grades 3-5)
RI GSEs: C&G 5 (3-4)-1, HP1(3-4)-1
People live differently all over the globe. Students will investigate
cultural objects from African, Oceanic and Native American cultures to
draw conclusions about the connections between people and their
environments.
Ask about our special exhibit workshops incorporating the Museum’s
featured Earth and Space Science Exhibits!
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OUR
COSMIC JOURNEY IN SPACE
(Grades K-3)
RI GSEs: ESS2(K-2)-7, ESS2(3-4)-7, ESS2(3-4)-8, ESS3(K-2)-9, ESS3(3-4)-9
While solving a crossword puzzle
about the sky, endangered animals explore the cause of day and night, the
importance of our star the Sun, the beauty of the constellations, and the
variety of objects that make up the Universe.
OUR PLACE
IN SPACE: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND
(Grades 3-6)
RI GSEs: ESS2(3-4)-8, ESS2(5-6)-6, ESS2(5-6)-8, ESS3(5-6)-9
Explore our solar system and discover each planet’s place in space.
SKY
VIEWS: PATTERNS IN THE NIGHT SKY
(Grades 4 and up)
RI GSEs: ESS2(3-4)-7,
ESS3(3-4)-9, ESS3(5-6)-9, ESS3(7-8)-9
Discover the
patterns of stars visible in the night sky and what you might see tonight
from your own backyard, featuring new
multi-media enhancements.
SPIRITS
FROM THE SKY: THUNDER ON THE LAND
(Grades 5-8)
RI GSEs: ESS3(5-6)-9, ESS2(7-8)-7
Journey into the culture of the Skidi Band of the Pawnee Native American
Nation.
ALL NEW SHOWS!
COSMIC COLLISIONS
Take a thrilling trip through space and time—well beyond the calm face
of the night sky—to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that
drive the dynamic and continuing evolution of the universe.
Groundbreaking scientific simulations and visualizations based on
cutting-edge research developed by American Museum of Natural History
astrophysicists, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), and other international colleagues depict the
dramatic and explosive encounters that shaped our solar system, changed
the course of life on Earth, and continue to transform our galaxy. The
new show explores the full range of space collisions, past, present, and
future. Show produced by the American Museum of Natural History.
(General Audience)
FIELD TRIP TO THE MOON
Mission Control … we're ready for
lift-off. Take a virtual journey to the Moon created using NASA
engineering models and scientific data. Like NASA's astronauts, come
face-to-face with the challenges and excitement of traveling through space
to land on the Moon. Along the way, discover some of the differences
between the Earth and the Moon and what makes our planet unique and
habitable. (Family show)
TWO
SMALL PIECES OF GLASS: THE AMAZING TELESCOPE
Four-hundred years ago, a simple adjustment to a child's spy glass
revealed for the first time an infinite and perplexing universe to our
eyes and our imaginations. Join us today as the world's greatest
telescopes, born of that serendipitous moment, gaze ever further into the
distant past-and into out future.
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MUSEUM VISIT
Tour the self-guided galleries as a group.
Enhance your visit by completing a scavenger hunt throughout the
Museum. Program duration: approx. 35 minutes
$2.00 per student
Teachers and chaperones are free.
PLANETARIUM PROGRAM
All shows are available for reservation at 9:30am, 10:30am and
11:30am. Introductory discussion included.
Program duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes for grade K
$100 up to 25 students, each additional
$4.00 per student
$4.00 per chaperone. Teachers are free.
Fee includes Museum admission.
WORKSHOP
Program duration: 1 hour
$4.00 per student, $2.00 per chaperone. Teachers are free.
Teachers and chaperones are free.
Fee includes Museum admission.
PLANETARIUM & WORKSHOP
Combine both programs to maximize your visit.
Program duration: 2 hours, 90 minutes for grade K
$175 up to 25 students, each additional
$7.00 per student
$4.00 per chaperone.
Teachers are free.
Fee includes Museum admission.
Programs have a minimum/maximum attendance requirement.
Ask
about special rates for Providence Public Schools.
The
Museum and Planetarium are wheelchair accessible.
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Education Department
Museum of
Natural History
Roger Williams Park
Providence, RI 02905
Tel: (401) 785-9457 x247
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