Activities
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Featured Activities
Games
- Simple Machines
- Help Twitch do his late-night work in the Museum workshop by creating simple machines.
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- What Goes Around
- Create a traveling circulatory system to learn how blood flow and nutrient exchange happens.
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- Three Colors of Light
- See what happens when you mix together the three primary colors of light.
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- Habitat Overcrowding
- See what happens when plants compete for survival in an area with limited resources.
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- Build a Roller Coaster
- Learn about energy as you send a marble through a roller coaster that you design.
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- See the Colors in Leaves
- Use chromatography to separate the pigments in leaves and see what they're made of.
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- Get the Porridge Just Right
- Learn about thermal energy while making porridge in this activity.
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- Fly a Hot-Air Balloon
- See what happens when air is heated as you build and fly a huge hot-air balloon.
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- Make a Comeback Can
- Surprise your friends by making a can that rolls back to you when you tell it to!
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- Make and Fly a Helicopter
- See how changing the paper helicopter's shape or weight affects its flight.
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- Make Ice Cream
- No need for the freezer, you'll learn about freezing and melting in this activity.
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- Make Recycled Paper
- Turn used paper into new paper, and do something good for the environment.
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- Make Slime
- Everyday items found at home can be used to make slime ... the gooier, the better!
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- Cookie Mining
- Simulate the economics of coal mining by "mining" for chocolate chips in a cookie.
- Happening Now
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Powerful: African Americans in Energy
Navigate a miniature golf landscape as you learn about our range of energy choices.
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Tornado Alley
Ride along with researchers of VORTEX 2 to hunt for some of nature's most destructive storms.
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Rocky Mountain Express
Jump onboard this journey through the Canadian Rockies by train!
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- Coming Soon
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Member Omnimax Film Festival
See a favorite Omnimax film, catch one you may have missed or experience a premiere.
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MythBusters: The Explosive Exhibition [Opens March 15]
Try your hand at busting or confirming myths in wildly entertaining experiments.
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Elements and Experiments
Join bestselling author Theodore Gray on his tour of the periodic table.
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Plan Your Visit
- First Timers
- Is it your first time to visit the Museum, or just been a while?
- Return Visits
- See what’s new and exciting at the Museum!
- Members
- We offer a wide-range of fun, exclusive Members-only events.
- Field Trips
- Find suggested activities by age group and subject matter.