Science After School
(For Seattle area only. Available outside Seattle on special request.)

For your out-of-school care or after-school science clubs, consider Pacific Science Center's Science After School, where kids and science connect in eye-opening, hands-on hours of exploration! From physics to forensics and animals to engineering, your young scientists will experiment with everything from roller coasters to rockets and insects to fingerprints. Each series consists of six 1-hour lessons, built on Washington State Grade Level Expectations and designed to enrich after school time with fun, innovative experiments right at your facility. There's whole series of sensational science awaiting your students!

Programs for Grades K-2:
Give Me Five
Take your fabulous five senses to the max! Test your taste buds, dazzle your eyes with illusions, experiment with sound waves and make your own ear drum, make sense of scents, nose into the nervous system, and then discover how the brain unscrambles all that information. Sniff, taste, feel, hear and see your experiments!
Design Time
We've got challenges... we need your inventions! Use pulleys, levers, gears and gravity to solve problems like: How slow can you make a marble fall? How far can your catapult fling an object? How buoyant is your boat? What's so great about gears? We'll bring the parts - you bring your imagination!
Amazing Animals
Explore the birds, beasts and bugs from our fossilized past and from our everyday life. What did the owl eat for lunch? What's edible dirt? From butterflies to cockroaches, shark teeth to animal adaptations, put your investigative skills to the test as you unearth fossils, meet live insects, make animal tracks, and even create your own specially adapted "futuristic" animal. It's Animals...from A to Z!
Ooze and Ahs
Mix up mysterious goo and create colorful concoctions as you connect with chemistry! What's Oobleck ? What do dancing popcorn and a superball have in common? Make your own slime and S-T-R-E-T-C-H, bounce and plop it, paint a magic picture with mysterious spices, and experiment with liquids, solids and gases. Measure, mix and pour your way through some extraordinary (and popping!) reactions!
 
Programs for Grades 3-5:
Space Safari
Prepare to blast off on a 6-week voyage of discovery! Focus on flight, engineer rockets, model a space station, operate a rover, go stargazing in a portable planetarium, analyze atmospheres, and then take part in a top secret mission to a nearby planet, SRAM. If space travel were easy, anyone could do it - find out why space exploration is such a challenge!
Physics FUNdamentals
Join us for a journey into the fascinating world of physics! From hair-raising static electricity to solar ovens and catapults to cracked eggs (oops! Bad egg drop!), you'll experiment with Newton's Laws of motion, acceleration, electricity and simple machines. Can your egg survive a ceiling-high drop? Can you run a fan using only light? It's science with a sizzle when the focus is on physics!
Forensics 101
Your mission: acquire the scientific skills needed to solve crimes. Focus on fingerprints, crack codes, decipher handwriting, use chromatography to investigate a crime scene, analyze fibers, delve into DNA evidence, and practice your observations skills - can you tell if someone is lying? How much can you remember about an event? Then use all your forensic skills to solve the mystery of who stole the butterfly chrysalises!
A Closer Look
Take a tour into the tiny world of nanotechnology! From the small to the invisible, master microscopes and then delve even deeper into unseen DNA and antibodies. Investigate organisms from the inside out - from pumping air into a pig's lung to probing the indigestible remain of an owl's lunch to dissecting a frog (yes, you get to dissect it yourself - or a frog model, if you would prefer)! It's a 6-week adventure into the fascinating field of physiology!
 
Requirements:
  • Enough tables and chairs for all participants
  • Access to water and electricity
  • One adult volunteer to assist with participants
Fees:
  • $1,200 for the 6-week series
  • A mileage fee will be added. This fee varies from county to county.
Program Length: 1 hour, for 6 weeks
Capacity: 24 participants per series

For Registration and Pricing Information
please call (206)443-2925 or email edprograms@pacsci.org
TDD: (206)443-2887