Inquiry & Connections
Making science connections.
The Museum challenges visitors to recognize and practice their scientific thinking skills. A variety of "hands-on, minds-on" activity stations allow visitors to experience the scientific process by asking questions, formulating hypotheses, performing experiments, examining evidence, and drawing conclusions.
Omni FilmS
Planetarium ShowS
Live PresentationS
- Frankly Franklin
- God's Dice
- Home Run Science
- Iceman Mystery
- Lower Your Home & Auto Fuel Costs!
- Mind Games & Optical Illusions
- Motel of the Mysteries
- SciCORE Science Theater Plays
- Science Live!
- Selections from Powers of Ten
- Sound and Music
- Super-Cold Science
- The Real Adventures of Spiderman!
ExhibitS
- Investigate!
- Making Models
- Natural Mysteries
- Playing by the Rules: Fish, Fads, and Fireflies
- Take A Closer Look
- Weems Animal Sculptures
Temporary ExhibitS
LectureS
- October 03, 2008 - Sustaining Life: A Conversation
- October 15, 2008 - Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
- October 29, 2008 - Bigfoot, Sea Serpents, and Cryptozoology
- November 12, 2008 - Innovation in Hollywood: Past, Present & Future
PodcastS
- September 28, 2007 - Genographic Project | Velociraptor or Turkey?
- June 15, 2007 - Studying Chimpanzees
- June 09, 2007 - Stem Cell Advancements | Cancer Research
- November 24, 2006 - Death by Jet Lag
- January 27, 2006 - Forest Health and the Inner Workings of Alzheimer’s
VideocastS
- September 04, 2008 - Genes and Social Behavior in Fire Ants
- August 07, 2008 - Children's Understanding of Apologies
- July 31, 2008 - Children Are Expert Face Recognizers
- May 01, 2008 - Citizen Science Comes to the Museum
- March 20, 2008 - Toxic Newts and the Snakes Who Eat Them -- and Live
Special ProgramS
Design Challenges
Design Challenges, the popular program in which visitors engineer a solution using provided materials, now has its own website where visitors can browse all of the program's activities, download worksheets, and play the "Aviary Architect" interactive game.
