In addition to the WOW on Wheels hands-on in-classroom activities, the WOW offers the following options for Outreach:
Library Outreach Program
Bring the WOW to your library! Invite one of our Educational Program Coordinators into your library for an engaging science experience for your students. Our specially designed programs are meant to meet the unique needs of a library setting for an engaging experience. Our hands‐on activities will enrich your science-minded guests and spark curiosity about the world around them.
Cost:
● Groups up to 25 = $150
● Groups up to 35 = $200
● Additional Guests, $6.00/per guest
● 45-60 minute demonstration
● Travel fees apply if greater than 15 miles from museum at $0.90 per mile, round trip
Program Choices:
Bee-bots – 4 years old-Grade 1
We start this lesson with a reading circle introducing the different jobs that robots perform in our society. Students then get an introduction to basic programming by creating their own sequential program using arrows and floor mats with different physical activities pictured. Finally pairs of students are given the Bee-Bot children’s robot and learn the basics of programming it to move along a racetrack.
Made in the Shade – Grades K-2
Put your little engineers to work designing and building a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area. Through the building activity, students will learn that surfaces in sunlight are warmer than those surfaces in the shade. Students work in pairs to build a structure and they have the option to keep the structures at the teacher’s discretion.
*Access to electricity needed
Magical Magnets – Grades K-3
Students work in pairs to discover the magical world of magnets. First we test a variety of items to determine what materials are magnetic and what are not magnetic. Next we learn that magnets can be used to make some objects move without being touched, due to a magnet’s special invisible power called the magnetic field. Finally, we experiment with magnetic poles by racing cars without touching them.
Seed Dispersal – Grades 2-6
Put your students’ STEM skills to work while learning about seed dispersal. Students will design and test a wind dispersed seed structure that will carry a single seed the farthest distance possible.
*Access to electricity needed
Balloon Rockets – Grades 3-5
Students will deepen their understanding of speed and energy through the creation and exploration of balloon rockets. Groups of students will be given a kit of materials to create a device that moves a balloon 5 meters along a string. Once built, students will also explore how the number of breaths and different string types affect the movement of the balloon.
I.D.E.A. (Invention, Design, and Exploration Adventure) – Grades 3-6
Test your students’ STEM skills in this student-directed lesson! Students utilize the scientific method to solve a design problem. By trial and error they will understand how simple machines and forces in motion such as inclined planes, gravity, friction, and acceleration affect their plans and will discover what they can do to make improvements.
Converting Electricity– Grade 4
Following a brief introduction to current electricity and generators, students will work in pairs using hand-held generators to experience first-hand how electricity can be converted to heat, light, and motion. They will connect the generators to a light bulb, a motor, and to another generator to explore energy conversion.
Slimy Science – Grades K-3
This lesson starts with a brief introduction to chemical reactions and three states of matter. After putting on their safety goggles, students work in pairs to see Chemistry in action! They measure and mix ingredients and discover substances with strange and surprising properties: polymers called slime and gluep. After performing a variety of tests to compare these two polymers, students have the option to take their gluep home.
Library Outreach Program Online Registration
Tabling Event
Bring the World of Wonders Science Museum to your next festival or event!
Cost:
● Less than 15 miles from museum = $100/hour
● Greater than 15 miles from museum = $150/hour plus $0.90 per mile, round trip
Description:
● 1 hands-on science activity
● Museum information and flyers
● You Provide: 1-2 tables, and access to water and electricity
To request a tabling event, please fill out this form.