A typical van visit to a school includes: a lively, 30-minute opening assembly, thirty interactive exhibits set up in the library or gym, and 5 to 15 individual classroom visits by Pacific Science Center teachers. Currently, Science On Wheels offers six subject areas designed for kindergarten through eighth grade students.
Subject areas...
- Physics on Wheels: Get charged up using hand generators, electric magnets, and light bulbs. Attract interest with magnets. Experiment with lenses, light and sound.
- Space Odyssey: Search the cosmos in our large inflatable planetariums. Examine the qualities of light using lenses and prisms.
- Blood & Guts: Bone up on how you are made as you create a model of a human skeleton. Explore the sensitivity of the body's largest organ, the skin.
- Engineering: Build bridges and test their strength. Program robots to solve problems.
- Rock & Roll: Study and classify minerals and compare the geology of Earth and Mars. Discover the secrets of volcanoes, and explore earthquakes using the disaster doll house.
- Mathfinder: Mathfinder takes students on a
mathematical journey far beyond arithmetic. Students
can practice probability, reflect on symmetry, focus
on fractals and locate their center of gravity as they
discover how to manipulate math to learn about the
world.
Call (206)443-2925 for registration and
other information.
TDD: (206)443-2887