Experience how musical sounds are produced and try some unusual musical instruments like the "toolaballoonaphone" and musical glasses.

Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Capacity: 16
Duration: 50 minutes
Available: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm and 1:00pm

Physics Phenomena

See demonstrations of fun and unusual physics, including the vacuum chamber, the Van de Graaff generator, and magnets or unusual musical instruments.

Grades: K-2, 3-5, 6-8
Capacity: 16
Duration: 50 minutes
Available: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm and 1:00pm

Electricity and Magnetism

How do electricity and magnetism make our modern world possible, and how did scientists build on each other's discoveries to make useful transformations of energy? Students look at magnets, motors, generators, direct and alternating current, the Van de Graaff generator, and the Tesla coil.

Grades: 3-5, 6-8
Capacity: 16
Duration: 50 minutes
Available: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm and 1:00pm

Lasers and Holography

Optics and the unique qualities of laser light that make holography possible. Students see an "interferometer," then watch the making of a hologram from start to finish.

Grades: 9-12
Capacity: 16
Duration: 50 minutes
Available: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10:00am, 11:00am, 12:00pm and 1:00pm