After you tour the Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns and Mermaids exhibition in Kahn Hall, come to the Discovery Center and create your own creature.  Will it have fins, fur, scales, skin or wings?

Do you know what to call a baby swan? A baby fox? Celebrate mothers of all shapes, sizes and species!  Learn about some favorite and unusual animal mothers during this month.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:

Your Brilliant Brain
Did you know that the brain is a very soft organ that floats in watery fluid? Learn how soft the brain is by touching a gummi brain model and see how important helmets are. Take a look at brain models and see how the different parts of the brain coordinate speech, movement, all of your senses and more with the Museum's Director of Human Health, Linda Spurlock. Activity: Do an experiment with eggs inside head models. Some heads have no helmet, and some do. It might get messy! Craft: Create a pipecleaner neuron.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:
 
Terrible Teeth Through Time
Check out real shark teeth and jaws, and life-like casts of dinosaur skulls and teeth. Then see fossil replicas of our armored fish with razor-sharp jaws and no teeth at all! Compare mammoth and mastodon teeth and examine a prehistoric cat's saber tooth. Learn how different teeth allow different feeding methods and compare and contrast the adaptations of different animal groups. Meet our renowned casting lab technician David Chapman, and expert volunteer Joe Klunder, and let them show you real examples of terrible teeth through time. Activity: Explore the remains of ancient seabeds for shark and ray teeth.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:

Energetic Earthquakes
What causes our rocky planet to shake? Learn how the building blocks of the Earth's crust shift and how earthquakes create seismic waves. Create your own waves with slinkies. Then see how earthquakes are recorded and measured by taking a 15 minute tour of the Museum's Seismic Observatory with Observatory Manager, Bob Bartolotta. Tours will leave every 30 minutes from the Discovery Center at 2:30, 3:00, 3:30, and 4:00. Craft: Color and create your own fault blocks. Play with them to learn about different types of faults.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:

Local Foods
Come celebrate the Year of Local Foods and be part of a city-wide sustainability campaign to increase the percentage of local food purchased in Northeast Ohio from 2% to 25%. Learn how you can grow food in a small space, and get familiar with the urban gardens in your city with Urban Farm Site Manager Kathryn Clusman from Cleveland Botanical Garden's Green Corp. Then learn how to raise bees and chickens in your backyard with beekeeper, chicken wrangler, and Museum Educator, Nancy Howell. Open and investigate the inside of a beehive (no bees will be at home), pet a baby chick, and learn where you can purchase food locally. Activity: Plant your own bush bean and take home some of the Discovery Center's own compost for your garden.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:

Wonderful Wetlands
Take a peek at the fascinating underwater world of wetlands with Mentor Marsh Naturalist, and wetlands wizard, Becky Donaldson. Learn why wetlands are important to people, animals, plants, and the environment. Do a fun science experiment to understand how wetlands clean and filter water. Then touch and explore a variety of wetland plants and animal pelts, and see live dragonfly nymphs. Dress up like a wetlands critter to learn about special animal adaptations to life in wetlands. Find out how you and your family can see the real thing by visiting Mentor Marsh and other natural areas in the region. Craft: Make your own dragonfly ring to wear home.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:

Awesome Archaeology
What's that point? Find out the difference between arrowheads, spearheads, and knives with Archaeologist Educator, Mark Kollecker. Learn how archaeologists use artifacts to learn about past cultures and see actual artifacts from our archaeology department. Activities: Try your hand at a variety of prehistoric tools and play a game to match artifacts and objects to the time period they came from.

Bring your family and your questions and get ready for hands-on fun. Stay as long as you like. Each week will feature a special activity or craft and a resource person who will make science fun and understandable for visitors of all ages! They will SHOW and TELL you about:

Marvelous Mammals
Learn about your furry friends, what they eat, where they live, and the lessons they can teach us. Pet a live rabbit, skunk, and opossum and learn about the adaptations that make these animals and you, a mammal, unique. Director of Wildlife Resources Harvey Webster will answer your questions and wow you with live animals, pelts, and skulls. In addition, preparator Maria Burke will show you how taxidermy works and give you an up close look at taxidermied mammals. Play a game to identify which glass eyes go with which taxidermy animal. Craft: Make a skunk out of a toilet paper tube.