Discovery Place Education Guide Volume 1, 2014 - 2015 School Year | Page 8

KIDSCIENCE

THINK IT UP

EXPLORE MORE COLLECTIONS LAB

FIELD TRIP
EXPERIENCE

KidScience is Discovery Place’s early childhood
exhibition where young children, second grade or
younger and their caregivers learn about science and
math as they experiment, create and play together. 

Explore More Collections is a one-of-a-kind
environment where you can find, identify and
connect objects from the natural world.

EXHIBITIONS

Through an extraordinary hands-on, minds-on
experience, young visitors explore science through
inquiry and fun in an environment developed
according to early childhood learning standards.

Full of ideas, inspiration and imagination, Think It Up
activates engagement in the processes of innovation.
Areas include: Air Tubes, Designing Footwear, Go Motion
and Sound Space. View shoes created by Museumgoers. Check out visitor stop-motion videos here.

Discovery Place offers fun and informative
exhibits presented in interactive
environments. Through hands-on
experiences and instruction, students
will learn about human inventions and
innovations, the life processes of living
things and watch science come to life.
A field trip to Discovery Place includes

PROJECT BUILD
Building takes on a new form as students tap their primitive
instincts using materials such as PVC pipes and netting to
build rudimentary structures critical to human survival. 
From there, students unleash their inner architect to
create building sketches, develop floor plans and design
buildings through different computer-generated programs.

all of these exhibitions plus free

COOL STUFF

admission to Discovery 3D Theatre,

Encouraged to get physical with physics, students can
learn leverage from a giant game of Tug-of-War, understand
weight distribution by laying on a bed of nails and master
many other STEM principles in this hands-on exhibition.

live animal encounters, science shows
and so much more. (Times vary, see
daily Visitor Guide for details).

FANTASTIC FROGS

SCIENCE BUZZ
Scan the world for current topics in science
at Science Buzz, a series of interactive stations
throughout the Museum that bring online, audio,
video, graphic and artifact components together to
create discussion around contemporary topics.
WORLD ALIVE
Dive into World Alive where you can find diverse
habitats filled with extraordinary live species, unique
hands-on labs, dramatic photography and access to
thousands of objects in Discovery Place’s world-class
collection. Students will have the opportunity to
experience and experiment with the natural world. 
Travel from the top of a tropical rainforest full
of live animal and plant species and a threestory waterfall the bottom of the aquarium
featuring ecosystems from around the world.

Prepare to enter the wild world of frogs and learn about
fascinating frogs that have unexpected adaptations for
survival. To avoid predation as well as to attract mates, frogs
have a number of incredible physical adaptations to survive in
many types of habitats. On display only thorugh August 2015.

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Delve into taxonomy, find patterns by
observing geometric