Explore the intriguing world of bats and learn the truth about one of the most misunderstood and beneficial creatures on Earth.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 4-12, Adult Topic: Life
Explore the great white shark’s place in our imaginations, in our fears, and in the reality of its role at the top of the oceanic food chain.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 2-5 Topic: Life
Students explore the skeletal, digestive, nervous, muscular, respiratory and circulatory systems, while learning how to take their own vital signs and keep their body healthy.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 4-8 Topic: Life
Get a bird’s-eye view of how hawks, owls and eagles survive in the wild. Includes an owl pellet dissection.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Planetarium Grade Level: 4-6 Topic: Earth + Space
Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 2-8 Topic: Life
Students use hands-on science to extract DNA and real forensic techniques to examine their own unique fingerprints.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Planetarium Grade Level: 4-12, Adult Topic: Earth + Space
See breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope, experience the eventual collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, then sweep through the Valles Marineris canyon.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 2-12 Topic: Physics, Tech + Engineering, Art + Science
Science and art collide when you combine conductive tape, batteries, and miniature LEDs into one-of-a-kind, take-home creations.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 4-8 Topic: Physics
Students become chemical detectives, investigating "mystery chemicals" and identifying them based on their unique properties, ranging from solubility to flammability.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 6-12, Adult Topic: Earth + Space
JERUSALEM immerses audiences into one of the world's most beloved cities. Discover why this tiny piece of land is sacred to three major religions through the stories of Jewish, Christian and Muslim families who call Jerusalem home.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 4-12 Topic: Tech + Engineering
With just a motor, a battery, a marker and a handful of craft supplies, students are challenged to design and build a scribbling robot that can doodle all on its own.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 2-8 Topic: Physics, Tech + Engineering
Students study the nature of electricity by engineering circuits using generators, batteries, bulbs, motors and more.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 2-12, Adult Topic: Earth + Space, Life, Tech + Engineering
An inspiring celebration of space exploration, a tribute to international cooperation in space research and a vision toward our near-term future beyond Earth's orbit - a manned mission to Mars.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: K-3 Topic: Physics, Early Childhood
In this introduction to basic chemistry, young students study mixtures and chemical reactions involving changes in color, temperature and states of matter.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Planetarium Grade Level: PreK-12, Adult Topic: Tech + Engineering, Early Childhood
Laser light shows feature intense colors set to music ranging from Tchaikovsky to Pink Floyd.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 2-12, Adult Topic: Earth + Space
Join these two courageous captains and their Corps of Discovery as they conquer raging rivers, bison-filled prairies, subzero temperatures and rugged mountains on an 8,000-mile journey to the Pacific Ocean and back.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: K-2 Topic: Life, Early Childhood
Available Spring 2022 - Discover clues about bird adaptations through an interactive exploration of real bird parts.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 3-12 Topic: Life
Students work in groups of three to explore the tissues of the eye while learning how they work together to allow for sight.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 3-8 Topic: Life
Available Spring 2022 - While participating in a hands-on DNA extraction from plants and animals, students learn the basic structure and function of DNA.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 6-12 Topic: Life
This lab is an extended comparative anatomy dissection with students working in groups of three.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 3-8 Topic: Life
Learn basic microscope and slide preparation skills while investigating onion and human cheek cells.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 3-12 Topic: Life
Our most popular dissection. Focus on the importance of structure and function while examining squid anatomy.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Assemblies Grade Level: K-8 Topic: Physics, Early Childhood
This show has it all! Learn about chemical reactions with solutions that instantly change color, giant piles of foam, great balls of fire, and more!
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: K-2 Topic: Physics, Early Childhood
Students explore the wonders of magnetic forces and discover how magnets attract and repel.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 4-8 Topic: Life
Students learn to prepare slides and identify diverse microorganisms living in a single drop of pond water.
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