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: Physical, 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: Physical, 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: 6-8 Topic: Life
Students explore major topics in biology, including metabolism, DNA, heredity, evolution and ecology over twelve consecutive sessions. Please note this program takes place over multiple days.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: K-2 Topic: Life, Early Childhood
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
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: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: K-2 Topic: Physical, 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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Program: At Your School Format: Assemblies Grade Level: K-8 Topic: Physical, Early Childhood
Student volunteers participate in Sir Isaac Newton's 300-year-old experiments by using ordinary objects to demonstrate the physics at work around us each day.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: K-5 Topic: Life, Early Childhood
Get your class moving and shaking while investigating the effects of exercise on the human body.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 4-12, Adult Topic: Life
Follow researchers and explorers as they piece together the archaeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies.
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Program: Camp-In/Sub-In Format: Overnight Grade Level: 3-8 Topic: Physical, Tech + Engineering
Plan an OMSI Camp-In for team building, an end-of-the-year celebration or just for fun! OMSI Camp-Ins are guaranteed to be a unique experience that's warm, dry and exciting this winter and spring!
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Exhibits Grade Level: PreK-12, Adult Topic: Earth + Space, Life, Physical, Tech + Engineering, Early Childhood
Time to get out of the classroom and into OMSI for learning and fun! A museum field trip includes four permanent exhibit halls and one rotating exhibit. Group rates available for groups of 12 or more, with a reservation in advance.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 4-12, Adult Topic: Life, Tech + Engineering
Mysteries of the Unseen World reveals phenomena that can’t be seen with the naked eye, taking audiences into earthly worlds secreted away in different dimensions of time and scale.
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Program: At Your School Format: Class/Lab Grade Level: 4-12 Topic: Physical, Tech + Engineering
In this class, students go beyond microscopic, observing firsthand the strange, sometimes surprising properties of matter when manipulated at the nanoscale.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: 2-12, Adult Topic: Earth + Space
Experience the ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation’s awe-inspiring great outdoors as Academy Award® winner Robert Redford narrates this centennial celebration of America's majestic national parks.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Films Grade Level: K-12, Adult Topic: Life
Oceans: Our Blue Planet takes us on a global odyssey to discover the largest and least explored habitat on earth. New ocean science and technology has allowed us to go further into the unknown than we ever thought possible.
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Program: Field Trip @ OMSI Format: Planetarium Grade Level: PreK-4 Topic: Earth + Space, Early Childhood
Elmo and Big Bird live in the United States and Hu Hu Zhu lives far away in China, but they discovered that they still see the same stars at night! When Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu "travel" to the moon, they discover some basic but surprising scientific facts.
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