In-School Field Trips

Use all five senses to explore the properties of chemical reactions! Explore chromatography and watch colors separate before your eyes. Make your own silly putty and find out how much fun chemistry can be!

Explore the many types of weather and how they occur. Discover how our planet moves, creates seasons, and how the sun affects our weather. Experiment with temperature, lightning, storms, tornadoes, and even take home snow!

Discover the importance of water and how it affects life on our blue planet. Create colourful rain, wade through the water cycle, and uncover the clouds in this hands-on lab about water and weather.

Have fun with architecture as we design and construct buildings, bridges, and more. You will uncover the importance of strength and stability and how to improve them. Discover how different materials and forces can affect structures.

Become a botanist and discover the amazing world of plants. Learn about photosynthesis and plant life cycles. Have a hands-on look at roots, shoots, and transportation inside a plant. Get all of the “seedy” facts!

Hop on our gyroscope and go back in time to the days of Newton. It's time to experiment with force and motion. Discover gravity, friction, inertia and have FUN as we push, pull and get the job done!

What’s that noise, where is that light coming from? Learn about the properties of light and sound energy as we use our eyes and ears to help us understand where they start, and how they change and interact with the world around us.

Discover how insects are different from us and how they move through their life cycles. Discover the many ways insects communicate in order to survive. Observe our live insects as you never have before – through the eyes of a scientist!

Explore the different states of matter. Heat things up and cool things down as we find out what makes things sink, how things float, and what really gets matter moving.

Learn about different local landforms and how they get formed. You will find out how water, wind, and ice can erode away landforms. Learn the difference between weathering, erosion, and deposition.

Compare and classify bugs to become an entomologist and discover what makes each unique. Make a spider web and learn why bugs are so important to our environment. Get up close and personal with the live bugs we bring in!

Find out what really matters as we explore the properties of solids, liquids, and gases. Discover what happens when solids and liquids interact during chemical reactions and in our density bottles. Observe for yourself that gases take up space!

Take a look at all of the properties of motion and invisible forces. Uncover all the 'attractive' facts of magnets. Explore the effects of push and pull, friction, and gravity. Use attraction and repulsion to move things and make your own magnets!

Discover what living things need to survive in a habitat. Explore food chains, ecosystems, and what lives and survives in the rainforest. Build your very own rainforest to keep!

Check out curious creatures with well adapted features as we investigate the connections between plants, animals, and their environment. Look for clues in the way things act, how they look, and where they go when the weather gets extreme!

Learn all about Earth's movements. Explore different types of weather that happen on our planet. Find out about all of the cycles that occur on and around our planet. Take home your very own anemometer to measure weather conditions.

Attention all astronomers! Blast off into outer space to explore different celestial objects. Journey back in time to the Big Bang and look for yourself if there is life on Mars. Explore some of the constellations in the night sky; this workshop is out of this world!

Explore Newton’s three laws of physics and how they relate to our everyday lives. Find out what balanced and unbalanced forces are and how gravity interacts with our planet.

Ever wondered why some people have blue eyes or brown eyes? Find out as we uncover how plants and animals have changed over time. Take a closer look at survival and how some traits make you stronger while others leave you stranded.

Explore the properties of visible light and other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum by using prisms, mirrors, LED lights, and more. Discover what white light means and use our rainbow glasses to compare different sources of light!

Hold your breath and uncover the connection between four vital body systems. Take a trip through the heart, arteries, and veins as we explore how the heart and lungs work together to keep us alive and which systems protect our body.

Become a geologist and investigate the Earth and its layers. Explore plate tectonics and what can happen as plates move. Test out some rocks and minerals!

Discover what really matters and investigate the properties of matter. Test pH with litmus paper and explore solubility, solutions, mixtures, and more. Even use chemical reactions to make new compounds!

Learn what's "current" as you create static and current charges. Transform electricity into light, sound, motion, and even magnetism! Create simple and parallel circuits and experiment with our alternative, renewable energy station!

Using tuning forks, discover what sounds actually are. Catch a sound wave as we learn about pitch, intensity, and frequency. Understand wave motion as we introduce a sound modulator in your classroom. Discover some new instruments!

Roll up your sleeves and look at the digestive, excretory, and muscular systems of the body. You'll have a hands-on look at a real cow and pig stomach, intestines, and much more!

Finally! Fun with machines! Experiment with different simple machines and use a spring scale to discover if there is a mechanical advantage. Observe how forces and friction can affect motion.