| | | | Blowin' in the Wind | | Audience:Students, Grades K - 1 | | Description: You and Curious George learn about wind. What can the wind move? See how wind makes different things move while you investigate bubbles, wind socks and pinwheels. Listen to the wind. What makes that sound? | | Fee: | $25/person | | Session 1: | March 23, 2013, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | 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: | February 23, 2013, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Primary Physical Science | | Audience:Students, Grades 1 - 2 | | Description: Create your own volcano. Construct test equipment to measure peanut butter adhesion. Generate an electric current with the help of a lemon using two different metals. | | Fee: | $27/person | | Session 1: | April 20, 2013, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Move It | | Audience:Students, Grades 1 - 3 | | Description: How does force move an object? What forces have an effect on speed and motion? Learn about Sir Isaac Newton's Laws of Motion and Bernoulli's Principle and have fun while you investigate how things move. | | Fee: | $32/per person | | Session 1: | February 16, 2013, 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 13, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Lego Engineering Juniors | | Audience:Students, Grades 3 - 5 | | Description: Are you a beginner or expert Lego builder? At either level you can learn something new. Use Legos to explore the engineering behind several design challenges from basic to more advanced. Work at your own challenge level as you explore gears and pulley machines. Try some basic programming to make your devices move on their own. Design, build and test your projects. Build alone or work like engineers in a design team. | | Fee: | $32/person | | Session 1: | February 23, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Full | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | 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: | March 2, 2013, 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | 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: | March 16, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Lego Engineering Juniors | | Audience:Students, Grades 3 - 5 | | Description: Are you a beginner or expert Lego builder? At either level you can learn something new. Use Legos to explore the engineering behind several design challenges from basic to more advanced. Work at your own challenge level as you explore gears and pulley machines. Try some basic programming to make your devices move on their own. Design, build and test your projects. Build alone or work like engineers in a design team. | | Fee: | $32/person | | Session 1: | February 23, 2013, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Junior Prairie Rangers - Prairie Pin Session 2 | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | Description: Learn about Fermilab's animal population. What roles do they play in their different habitats? Explore animal sites.
Learn how you can become a certified Junior Prairie Ranger and have fun as a steward of the land! The $12 registration fee is for all 5 sessions. Sessions meet: 1/26, 3/30, 5/18, 6/9, and 8/17.
More information | | Fee: | $12/person (covers any or all pin sessions) | | Session 1: | March 30, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Junior Prairie Rangers - Prairie Pin Session 3 | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | Description: Explore the geology of Fermilab. Examine rocks, look for fossils and make your own collection.
Learn how you can become a certified Junior Prairie Ranger and have fun as a steward of the land! The $12 registration fee is for all 5 sessions. Sessions meet: 1/26, 3/30, 5/18, 6/9, and 8/17.
More information | | Fee: | $12/person (covers any or all pin sessions) | | Session 1: | May 18, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Junior Prairie Rangers - Prairie Pin Session 4 | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | Description: 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.
Learn how you can become a certified Junior Prairie Ranger and have fun as a steward of the land! The $12 registration fee is for all 5 sessions. Sessions meet: 1/26, 3/30, 5/18, 6/9, and 8/17.
More information | | Fee: | $12/person (covers any or all pin sessions) | | Session 1: | June 9, 2013, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Junior Prairie Rangers - Prairie Pin Session 5 | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 6 | Description: Construct your own herbarium by collecting plants from Fermilab’s prairie. Learn how scientists identify and classify plants.
Learn how you can become a certified Junior Prairie Ranger and have fun as a steward of the land! The $12 registration fee is for all 5 sessions. Sessions meet: 1/26, 3/30, 5/18, 6/9, and 8/17.
More information | | Fee: | $12/person (covers any or all pin sessions) | | Session 1: | August 17, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | Nanotech Investigation | | 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 16, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Full | | Complete Listing |
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| | | | Girls Scientific Salon | | Audience:Students, Grades 4 - 7 | | Description: Develop new relationships and experiment with women of science. See the science in things that are important to you. Learn how science is important in your daily life and health. Experiments will help you explore and question. Share activities or projects to take home. Lunch is included. | | Fee: | $42/per person | | Session 1: | April 6, 2013, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
| | | | | 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. Work at your own challenge level as you construct a motorized vehicle or explore bridge design. Use PICO software to program your projects to move on their own. Design, build and test your projects. Build alone or work like engineers in a design team. | | Fee: | $32/person | | Session 1: | March 23, 2013, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM | | Complete Listing |
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