Education
Programs
You may search for student programs below.
- For programs that come to you, see the Outreach section.
- To find programs open to the general public, search our Programs & Events.
Title |
Program Type | Description | Dates Available |
|---|---|---|---|
Investigate Lab Experience |
iLab | Spend the morning exploring either our Micro World our Natural World, or our Visual World Investigate Lab’s offerings of hands-on science activities. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 |
Green Plants |
Curiosity Classes | Examine the lives of green plants through hands-on activities and role-playing. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 |
Gram Staining Bacteria |
iLab | Learn about and then perform Gram staining on a variety of bacterial species. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 |
Go Outside to Prairie Ridge |
Discovery Room | Hike through the prairie to a bird blind overlooking a pond and look for animal signs using all your senses and a few tools. | September - October 2012; April - May 2013 |
GIS 101 |
iLab | Use computers and geographic information system (GIS) software to view and edit geo-referenced data sets. | January 9 -May 31, 2013 |
Fossils: Window into the Past |
iLab | Give your students a unique opportunity to study fossil specimens from North Carolina and elsewhere. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 |
Exploring the World Marketplace |
Living Conservatory | Experience what can happen when forest resources are unevenly distributed around the world and explore some tradeoffs of resource use. | October 1, 2012 - May 30, 2013 |
DNA Electrophoresis Lab |
iLab | In this lab students will learn how to obtain a DNA “fingerprint.” They will perform gel electrophoresis, stain a completed gel, and deduce from the results who the “guilty party” is from a series of suspects. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 |
Discovery Room: Parent-Led Programs |
Discovery Room | Your children may be too young for a structured school program, but they are never too young to enjoy and explore the Discovery Room. | October 2, 2012 - June 28, 2013 |
Discovering Dinosaurs |
Interactive Video Conferencing | What is a fossil? What dinosaur fossils have we found? How do we use these fossils to develop an understanding of dinosaurs and how they lived? | year-round |
Dinosaurs Roar! |
Discovery Room | Take a pretend field trip back to the time of dinosaurs. | October 2, 2012 - June 28, 2013 |
Cycles of Life at Prairie Ridge |
Seasonal changes produce life cycle changes. Search out baby birds, tadpoles, flowers, or insects and learn about their development. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 | |
Coastal Carolina |
Interactive Video Conferencing | Explore the habitats and inhabitants of North Carolina’s Coastal Region. | year-round |
Cell Cycle |
iLab | Prepare and stain plant root tips for examining cells in interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase and cytokinesis. | October 2, 2012 - May 31, 2013 |
Butterflies and Moths |
Interactive Video Conferencing | Explore the life history of some of North Carolina's flying jewels. | year-round |
Butterflies and Moths |
Interactive Video Conferencing | Students will learn how to identify common butterflies and moths of North Carolina. | year-round |
Bugs & Slugs |
Discovery Room | Join us for a friendly safari in search of the strangest backyard invertebrates. | October 2, 2012 - June 28, 2013 |
Buds, Bark and Berries: A Tree Program |
Interactive Video Conferencing | Explore the parts of a tree, their function and a variety of adaptations trees exhibit. Photosynthesis, seed dispersal, and germination will be reviewed. | year-round |
Bringing the Outdoors In: Why and How? |
Living Conservatory | Explore the connections - shared species, products, and the global environment - that North Carolina has to the New World tropics. | October 1, 2012 - May 30, 2013 |
Biodiversity of the New World Tropics |
Living Conservatory | Observe live plants and animals characteristic of a Central American dry tropical forest . | October 1, 2012 - May 30, 2013 |
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