| | | | Chemistry at Your Fingertips | | Audience:Students, Grades K - 2 | | Description: See colors and textures change before your very eyes! Begin the exciting exploration of chemical reactions. What can you make? | | Fee: | $25/person | | Session 1: | March 19, 2016, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Flutter Like a Butterfly | | Audience:Students, Grades K - 2 | | Description: In Mariana Becomes a Butterfly, Mariana wonders why her plants don't have many berries. What happened and can she do anything about it? Through role-play and hands-on activities, learn how bees and insects help plants produce the food we need. Without bees and butterflies helping to pollinate plants, our natural world would be dull indeed! | | Fee: | $35/per person | | Session 1: | April 9, 2016, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Snow Crystals | | Audience:Students, Grades K - 5 | | Description: Have fun as a young scientist learning how to grow crystals. You will study the patterns and designs of different crystals and have a chance to create and build your own snowflake. | | Fee: | $32/person | | Session 1: | February 13, 2016, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Hands-on Engineering | | Audience:Students, Grades 2 - 4 | | Description: Design your own aircraft to achieve whatever engineering challenge your team can handle! Next, you'll become a chemical engineer and design a polymer (alias: "slime") of your own creating. Design, create and test your projects. | | Fee: | $28/per person | | Session 1: | January 23, 2016, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | The Bugs are Back! | | Audience:Students, Grades 2 - 4 | | Description: Come join us as we welcome back the insects. Where were they over the winter? Why are we so pleased to have them back? Come explore these questions and others as we spend time in the field and in the lab learning about our friends. | | Fee: | $32/person | | Session 1: | April 23, 2016, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Lego Engineering Juniors | | Audience:Students, Grades 3 - 5 | | Description: Beginner and expert Lego builders can always learn something new. Explore the engineering behind several design challenges from basic to more advanced. Explore gear and pulley machines. Try some basic programming to make your devices move on their own. Build alone or work as engineers in a design team.
| | Fee: | $35/person | | Session 1: | February 27, 2016, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Fireflies, Sea Monsters and Glow Sticks | | Audience:Students, Grades 3 - 5 | | Description: Light is important to life, but what is light and how is it different than other things around us? What makes fireflies and underwater creatures glow even in the dark? Learn about light and why light can fool us sometimes. Can you become invisible like Harry Potter under his special invisible cloak? | | Fee: | $38/person | | Session 1: | April 16, 2016, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Wild and Wonderful Weather | | Audience:Students, Grades 3 - 5 | | Description: Play with wind, create a tornado, watch dew magically appear and make it rain! Student scientists experiment with concepts of weather during this fun filled morning. | | Fee: | $27/person | | Session 1: | May 7, 2016, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Girls Scientific Salon | | Audience:Students, Grades 3 - 6 | | Description: Work with some terrific women of science and explore the science in your world. This session will explore the interesting world of light and color. What is light and color and how do they make our world what we see? Use hands-on activities, demonstrations and projects to learn a rainbow of new ideas about light and color. | | Fee: | $36/per person | | Session 1: | April 2, 2016, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Nanotech Investigations | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | | Description: How do scientists make motors, robots and other devices work on a super small scale? What is nanotechnology and how is it used in our world? You'll discover the small scale of nanotechnology and how different things work when they are super small. | | Fee: | $38/person | | Session 1: | February 6, 2016, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Kid Inventors | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | | Description: Have you ever used something and thought you could make it better? Do you have ideas for something that doesn't exist yet? Use your ideas to invent new gizmos and gadgets. Make, adapt and test rocket launchers, bridges, a new sport or your own idea. Now what? If one of your inventions is new, unusual and not obvious, you may just get a patent for your invention. | | Fee: | $36/per person | | Session 1: | March 5, 2016, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Junior Prairie Rangers Pin Sessions | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | Description: Join this special yearlong program from January to August 2016. Learn what it means to be stewards of the prairie during each session. All sessions run from 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM except for the session in June. Students may begin participation at any time.
January 16, 2016: Observe prairie seeds under the microscope and build prairie plant terrariums for overwintering in your own backyard.
March 5, 2016: Learn about Fermilab's animal population. What roles do they play in their different habitats? Explore animal sites.
May 14, 2016: Explore the geology of Fermilab. Examine rocks, look for fosils and make your collection!
*June 12, 2016: Be a steward for the day! Teach visitors about the prairie through many fun activities at the Lederman Science Center during the Family Outdoor Fair. *Please note this session takes place on a Sunday from 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM.
August 20, 2016: Construct your own herbarium by collecting plants from Fermilab's prairie. Learn how to use a plant guide for identification.
More details at ed.fnal.gov/programs/rangers. | | Fee: | $12/per person | | Session 1: | January 16 - August 20, 2016, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Design and Create: Be an Engineer | | Audience:Students, Grades 5 - 7 | | Description: Mechanical and structural engineers take on building and design challenges. Your team will brainstorm solutions, then design, build and test a high rise structure, a paper table and investigate historic paper engineering projects. | | Fee: | $28/per person | | Session 1: | February 20, 2016, 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Caring for Critters | | Audience:Students, Grades 5 - 8 | | Description: Do you love animals, wildlife critters and nature? What happens when wildlife gets injured? Who can help them? Learn about animals in our area and the type of illness and injuries they encounter. Brainstorm solutions to patient cases and replicate actual treatment methods with a local expert. | | Fee: | $36/per person | | Session 1: | April 30, 2016, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Lego Engineering | | Audience:Students, Grades 6 - 8 | | Description: As your Lego building skills expand, are you curious about why things work as they do? You can always learn something new or try a new challenge. Use Legos to continue to explore engineering concepts from basic to more complex. Construct a motorized vehicle or explore bridge design. Use PICO software to program your projects to move on their own. | | Fee: | $35/person | | Session 1: | January 30, 2016, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Earth Engineers | | Audience:Students, Grades 6 - 8 | | Description: You be the miner. Learn the challenges miners and geologists face when working on underground projects. Guide your "company" to make the best decisions about the location of a mine. What will you do to reclaim the environment? | | Fee: | $36/person | | Session 1: | March 12, 2016, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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