Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.
What lives beneath our feet? Meet some of the Museum’s live animal ambassadors and learn more about creatures that dig and burrow underground. Explore why life below the surface can be a cool place to be!
Participants must be 5 to 7 years old for this program.
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Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.
For more information contact Missy Chernick.
Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.
The landscape of the South would have looked much different if you visited in early settlement times. Forests would have seemed to go on forever. One type of ecosystem you would have encountered was the Longleaf Pine Savannah. With vast, open understories and an amazing diversity of plants and animals, this ecosystem is a wonder to behold. Longleaf Pine forests now occupy only 3 percent of their original range, and require careful management, including frequent fire. In this class, we will talk about human impacts on these forests and uncover some of the amazing adaptations of plants and animals that are unique to this habitat.
Participants must be 8 to 10 years old for this program.
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Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.
For more information contact Missy Chernick.
Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.
We will take you on a journey to the microscopic world where we will examine the lesser-seen kingdoms of Protista and microscopic Animalia. The students will learn the parts and functions of a compound microscope, prepare their own slides from pond samples and learn to identify the creatures that they find.
Participants must be 11 years of age or older for this program.
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Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.
For more information contact Missy Chernick.
How do bears catch fish? They use their bear hands! What is a bear’s favorite dessert? Blue-beary pie! Okay, okay … enough with the jokes. Bear with us as we celebrate November with a focus on bears! We’ll learn about bear cubs, bear myths and the bears in our back yard!
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Natural Science Classroom occurs on Zoom once a month September-May. We recommend this program for ages 8 and up, but all ages are welcome. Parents and teachers are invited to participate with their children or students.
Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.
Ahoy Mateys! Join the Crew of the Flying Dutchman and discover the science behind the legends of the briny deep. Uncover the terrifying kraken and face off against a shark with the face of a goblin. Chase down the great white whale and escape the clutches of the fearsome sea serpent. Using hands-on activities, specimens and our own pirate daring, we’ll reveal the real-life animals that inspired the myths of Davy Jones’ Locker.
Participants must be 5-7 years old for this program.
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Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.
For more information contact Missy Chernick.
Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.
During this class we will explore the many strategies that nature uses to build structures; from ridged scallop shells and circular owl eggs to intricate bird nests and air-conditioned termite mounds. We will learn how humans have either copied some of these design secrets or have been inspired to create our own structures like bridges, houses and even outdoor clothing.
Participants must be 8-10 years old for this program.
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Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.
For more information contact Missy Chernick.
Join us for classes designed especially for homeschool and track-out students. These 60-minute classes allow us to delve deeper into topics and incorporate additional learning experiences.
Give your students a unique opportunity to study fossil specimens from North Carolina and elsewhere. Students examine fossils to learn how they form and how fossils tell us about the past. Students also explore how we know the age of fossils and how a geologic map can help with fossil dating and identification.
Participants must be 11 years of age or older for this program.
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Registration ends 48 hours prior to program start time.
For more information contact Missy Chernick.
Have you ever examined a drop of pondwater under a microscope? This droplet contains a variety of living creatures, including protists. Protists are not an animal, plant, or fungi…so what exactly are they? Using a compound microscope, we will zoom in and explore the magical world of protists!
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Natural Science Classroom occurs on Zoom once a month September-May. We recommend this program for ages 8 and up, but all ages are welcome. Parents and teachers are invited to participate with their children or students.
Join us to learn the basics of turtle biology, with a special focus on sea turtles! We’ll see why they are important, how climate change is affecting turtles around the globe, and what scientists are doing to help them.
This program features Dr. Boris Tezak, a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Cell Biology at Duke University School of Medicine.
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Natural Science Classroom occurs on Zoom once a month September-May. We recommend this program for ages 8 and up, but all ages are welcome. Parents and teachers are invited to participate with their children or students.