At Your School: Science-to-Go™!
For Science-to-Go!™ call (216) 231-8002
• Experience the wonders of nature in your classroom
• See Museum specimens, real instruments, models and simulations
• 50-minute, hands-on science lessons
• Based on Pre-K to grade 8 Ohio Academic Content Standards
• Maximum of 30 students per class; larger class size may result in an additional charge
Topics
Wildlife in the City – for Preschool
Go wild learning about local wildlife! Using interactive games and songs, students will learn all about our local plants and animals. Touch real furs and describe the difference between our pets and native anumals that live near us.
E&S: 3; L: 3, 5; Phys: 3; ScI: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7; ScWK: 1, 2
Teacher's Guide for Wildlife in the City
Digging for Dinos – for Preschool
Your students will discover the answer to the question "What does a paleontologist do?" as they excavate simulated dinosaur fossils, match skeletons with models, compare different types of dinosaur teeth and touch a real dinosaur fossil.
L: 2, 5; Phys: 3; S&T: 1, 3, 4; ScI: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7; ScWK: 1, 2
Teacher's Guide for Digging for Dinos
Is It Alive? – for Preschool-grade 1
What makes living and nonliving things different? Explore the characteristics of living organisms and learn about their basic needs and adaptations.
L: 1, 2, 3, 5; Phys: 2, 3; ScI: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7; ScWK: 1, 2
Grade K: L: 1, 2, 4, 5; Phys: 2; ScI: 4, 5, 6, 9
Grade 1: E&S 1; L: 1; ScI: 4, 8
Teacher's Guide for Is It Alive?
States of Matter - A Solid Lesson Where Liquids Can Be A Gas! – for grades K-3 (also available via Distance Learning)
Students will learn how temperature affects the physical properties of matter and relate this information to everyday experiences. They will explore the physical changes of matter as it transitions from solid to liquid to gas and examine the properties of each phase of matter.
Grade K: ScI: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7; ScWK: 1
Grade 1: Phys: 2, 3; ScI: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
Grade 2: ScI: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10; ScWK: 4
Grade 3: ScI: 4, 5, 6; ScWK: 2
Teacher's Guide for States of Matter
Adaptations of Ohio Animals – for grades K-3
Explore how Ohio's animals adapt to their changing habitats by studying real animal skulls and furs from the Museum collections.
Grade K: L: 5, 6; ScI: 4; ScWK: 1, 3
Grade 1: E&S: 3; L: 1, 3, 4, 5; ScI: 8
Grade 2: L: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8; ScI: 2, 10; ScWK: 4
Grade 3: L: 2, 3, 6; ScI: 5, 6; ScWK: 2
Teacher's Guide for Adaptations of Ohio Animals
Water: H2O is Awesome! – for grades K-4
Students will get their hands wet as they learn about the water cycle, states of matter, and properties of water: magnification, refraction, reflection, cohesion, and density.
Grade K: ScI: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7; ScWK: 1
Grade 1: Phys: 2, 3; ScI: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8
Grade 2: ScI: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10; ScWK: 4
Grade 3: ScI: 4, 5, 6; ScWK: 2
Grade 4: E&S: 2, 3; Phys: 1, 4; ScI: 4; ScWK: 2
Teacher's Guide for The Wonder of Water (grades K-2)
Teacher's Guide for The Wonder of Water (grades 3-4)
Forces & Motion– for grades 3-5 (also available via Distance Learning)
Convert your classroom into a high-action lab ruled by the Laws of Motion! Forces and motion are sometimes difficult concepts to describe, but easily observed and understood through hands-on experiments and observations. Explore gravity, Newton's Three Laws of Motion, friction, acceleration, velocity, and how studying science is physically fun!
Teacher Feedback about the Program
Grade 3: Phys: 3, 4; ScI: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6; ScWK: 2
Grade 4: ScI: 1, 3, 4; ScWK: 2, 3, 4
Grade 5: ScI: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
Teacher's Guide for Forces & Motion
Simple Machines – for grades 3-6 (Updated!)
Students will experiment with simple machines, investigate how they work and explore how they help us accomplish both easy and complex tasks.
Grade 3: S&T: 1, 4; ScI: 1, 4, 5, 6; ScWK: 2
Grade 4: ScI: 1, 4; ScWK: 2
Grade 5: ScI: 1, 3
Grade 6: ScI: 2, 3
Teacher's Guide for Simple Machines
Food Chains, Habitats and Us – for grades 4-6 (also available via Distance Learning)
Discover how all energy travels from the sun to plants and animals, and how we use food chains and webs to illustrate this flow. Demonstrate how human activity, like pesticide use, can impact this energy flow and how not all organisms are able to adapt to change in their environments.
Student Letters about the Program
Grade 4: L: 5
Grade 5: L: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; S&T: 1
Grade 6: L: 8
Teacher's Guide for Food Chains, Habitats and Us
Alternative Energy: Current Generation and Progressive Potentials – for grades 4-6
Investigate how conservation and innovation work together to use energy more efficiently. Learn about new energy technologies and compare their environmental impact to conventional energy sources.
Grade 4: S&T: 1, 2; ScI: 1, 3, 4, 5; MathL Measurement 5, Data analysis and probability 1, 2
Grade 5: E&S: 5, 6; Phys: 1, 2, 3, 4; S&T: 1, 3; ScI: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6; Math: Measurement 5, Data analysis and probability 1, 3, 10
Grade 6: Phys: 5, 6, 7, 8; S&T: 1, 2, 5; ScI: 2; Math: Data analysis and probability 1, 6
Teacher's Guide for Alternative Energy
Archaeology: Dig into the Past – for grades 4-6
Dig into a mock archaeological site. Students will interact with real and replica artifacts from the site and use them to learn about prehistoric Ohio people.
Grade 4: Hist: 2; People: 1; Sk&M: 4, 5, 6, 10; ScI: 1; ScWK: 1, 2, 3, 4
Grade 5: Hist: 2; Sk&M: 6, 9; SI: 1, 3; ScWK: 1, 5
Grade 6: Hist: 3 Geog: 5; Sk&M: 6, 7; ScI: 1, 2, 3; ScWK: 2
Teacher's Guide for Archaeology: Dig into the Past
Watch this video of a flintknapping demonstration before or after your class.
Weather – for grades 4-7
Your classroom will be a flurry of activity while students study the reason for season changes, experiment with the science behind weather systems, and investigate simple weather instruments.
Grade 4: E&S: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; Phys: 4; ScI: 1, 2, 4; ScWK: 2
Grade 7: E&S: 3, 4, 5, 8; ScI: 4, 5, 7
Teacher's Guide for Weather
Amazing Air: Science That Will Blow You Away! — for grades 4-6
Get your students excited about science inquiry and the scientific method by manipulating the properties of "Amazing Air"! Interactive, messy demonstrations from hot air balloons to Bernoulli’s toilet paper effect encourage use of the scientific method to explain, "How did we just DO that?"
Grade 4: E&S: 1; Phys: 1, 4, 5; ScI: 2, 3; ScWK: 2, 3, 4, 5
Grade 5: Phys: 1; ScI: 1, 2, 3; ScWK: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Grade 6: Phys: 3, 4; ScWK: 1, 2, 4
Teacher's Guide for Amazing Air!
Balto: A History of Humans, Huskies & Health — for grades K-12 (Also available via Distance Learning)
Learn about Balto and the heroic dogs and mushers of Alaska from the 1925 Serum Run to the Iditarod of today. What is diptheria, and why was the outbreak in Nome, Alaska so famous? Where is the Iditarod run today and what is the Cleveland connection to Balto?
Student Letters about the Program
Grades K-2: H: 1.2.3, 7.2.2
Grades 3-5: H: 7.5.3
Grade 2: S&T: 1, 3
Grade 3: S&T: 1, 3
Grade 4: S&T: 1, 2
Grades 6-8: H: 1.8.3, 7.8.3
Grades 9-12: H: 1.12.3, 7.12.3
Teacher's Guide for Balto: A History of Humans, Huskies & Health in Alaska
For Science-to-Go!™ call (216) 231-8002
Science Standards:
E&S:Earth and Space Sciences
L:Life Sciences
Phys:Physical Sciences
S&T:Science and Technology
ScI:Scientific Inquiry
ScWK:Scientific Ways of Knowing
Social Studies Standards:
Hist:History
People:People in Societies
Geog:Geography
Sk&M:SocialStudies Skills and Methods
Health Standards:
H: National Health Standards