Educators from the Science Learning Museum and San Francisco’s Exploratorium will set up participatory exhibits and engage in science activities. Highlights will include appearances by a group of educators called the Super Science Squad, a hang-glider simulation and a Bernoulli blower, which levitates a ball on a stream of air. The exploratorium also will offer traveling exhibits called Hoop Nightmares, Seeing Depth, and Intrusion.
Montana students, on campus for the High School Health Science Symposium, will be received in the Skaggs Building from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Fourth- and fifth-graders from Bonner, Lolo and Franklin elementary schools will visit the mini-science museum from 4 to 5 p.m. of the UC ballroom. The elementary students will be at UM for Science Opportunities for Kids, a University-sponsored after-school program. Events are open to the media but not the general public.
The fledgling museum will host a kids’ hands-on science tent at Out to Lunch in Caras Park this summer. It also will sponsor a Name Your Museum contest for the new facility. The Exploratorium is a world-renowned, hands-on museum of science, art and human perception.
UM’s Science Learning Museum and ExplorationWorks, a similar program in Helena, are developing a partnership that will bring semi-permanent exhibits and inquiry-based science curriculum from the Exploratorium to Montana starting in summer 2007. Fundraising for the partnership is under way.
For more information: Holly Truitt, 406-243-4828.
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