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Plan Your Science Field Trip or Group Trip Today!
Nothing enhances your science lessons like hands-on experiences! Get your students out of the classroom and explore real world science phenomena with over 100 interactive exhibits in the 73,500 square-foot Museum and throughout the 21 wooded acres surrounding the facility.
Schools and non-profit organizations qualify for the group rate. Proof of non-profit status must be provided upon registering your group.
*A minimum two-week advanced registration required in order to receive the group rate.
Pricing
School Groups and Non-Profit Admission (15 persons or more)
Workshops & Science Shows
Mid-America Science Museum wants to further support teachers in hands-on educational activities offered at the museum and as Outreach and Distance Learning.
For a full description of all our educational offerings, please download the guide below.
WORKSHOPS
K Through 12th Grade (45 mins)
Each of our K-12th grade workshops are NGSS aligned.
Max. Capacity: 30
Min. Capacity: 10
Build it. Launch it. Learn it.
Grades: K - 12
Fuel curiosity with a hands-on STEM workshop that brings rocketry, physics, and engineering to life. Students explore problem-solving as they design, build, and launch their own rockets. Let your students launch into learning with excitement that truly takes off!
Truss Me, I’m An Engineer
Grades: 3 - 5
This activity is where creativity meets critical thinking. Students will build and compare two bridge styles, perform strength tests, record data, and redesign based on real-world testing. Perfect for introducing engineering principles such as tension and compression.
Ready, Set, Code!
Grades: K - 12
Introduce your K-12 students to coding with this engaging robotics workshop! Using Ozobot’s color-coding programs, students build problem-solving collaboration and computational thinking skills - no experience needed!
Bones & Beaks
Grades: 5 - 7
Uncover the secrets of the food web - one pellet at a time! Students will dissect real owl pellets to investigate what owls eat and how energy flows through ecosystems. Students will explore trophic levels and the role of owls in maintaining ecological balance all while building skills in observation, inference, and scientific analysis.
Wild Weather Lab
Grades: 5 - 12
Students will design and build simple structures - then put them to the test against high-force winds. This workshop is a powerful way to bring engineering concepts to life through critical thinking, collaboration, and the design process.
From Forest to Classroom
Grades: 2 - 4
Bring science to life with an interactive environmental and wildlife biology workshop tailored to your students’ grade level and the season! This session explores Arkansas’s diverse ecosystems, native species, and conservation topics - connecting classroom standards with real-world science.
SCIENTOTS WORKSHOPS
Pre-K Through 1st Grade. (30 mins)
Each workshop features a story and STEM activity combining science and literacy.
Max. Capacity: 30
Min. Capacity: 10
Three Little Engineers
The Three Little Pigs
Through storytelling, creativity, and simple experimentation, students will make predictions, build and test different house designs, and learn about materials, structure, and cause and effect. It’s the perfect blend of literacy and STEM, sparking curiosity and critical thinking in your youngest learners.
Creature Features
Mary Had a Little Lab by Sue Fliess
With a fun take on “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” we explore animal adaptation. If you could build your perfect pet, what could it do? Could it help you carry groceries from the car? Is it soft and perfect for snuggling? Could it fly?
A Rainbow of My Own
A Rainbow Of My Own by Don Freeman
In this vibrant workshop, students will explore how rainbows form through simple, age-appropriate science activities, create their own rainbow using light, color, and art, and experiment with prisms, flashlights, and translucent materials to see how light transforms. This playful, literacy-linked experience blends imagination and science, making it perfect for curious young minds.
Space Labs
Live presentations of the following NGSS-aligned theater shows will be tailored to your class curriculum by our expert Digital Dome operator. Hosted in the Oaklawn Foundation Digital Dome Theater.
Max. Capacity: 50
In My Backyard
Grades: Pre K - 3rd | 20 minutes
Students will explore the science available in their own backyard as they learn about the relationship between the Sun and the rotation of the Earth, the impact of the Earth’s land and water bodies on weather, and seasonal time cycles.
Space Explorers
Grades: 4 - 7 | 25 minutes
This class begins on Earth as the students examine the impact geological events such as continental drift and volcanic eruptions on the four “spheres”; atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and biosphere. Traveling away from Earth through the solar system, students will study how these events impact other planets, moons, and the Sun; and how gravity impacts the relationship between these bodies.
Starships and Stars
Grades: 8 - 12 | 30 minutes
Students become futuristic astronauts and go on a tour of our solar system to learn about planets and the coming challenges of interplanetary travel.
Feature Films
Explore the night sky and discover the latest in astronomy during these immersive shows. Suitable for 5th-12th grades. Hosted in the Oaklawn Foundation Digital Dome Theater.
Max. Capacity: 50
MESSENGERS OF TIME AND SPACE
Grades: 5th-12th | 30 Minutes
A stunning visual and educational experience that leads your students on a journey through the dynamic Universe during a night of observation at the International Gemini Observatory.
TALES OF A TIME TRAVELER
Grades: 5th-12th | 30 Minutes
The theater becomes a time machine as this professionally produced film explores different time cycles: Earth time, star time, and cosmic time.
DRAGONS IN SPACE
Grades: 5th-12th | 30 Minutes
An adventure from Earth to the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy and back, this film is a state-of-the-art visualization of the latest updates in NASA’s space program.
100 YEARS TO ETERNITY
Grades: 5th-12th | 30 Minutes
An exploration that begins with the early cultures of mankind and culminates with accomplishments in modern technology and today’s ever-changing view of the heavens.
Worlds of Curiosity
Grades: 2nd-5th | 15 Minutes
Funded by the “What If Hypothericals In Minecraft” (WHIMC) research grant, this show dives into the questions of what it would be like to live on an Earth with no Moon, or an Earth that was tilted on its side, like Uranus. Join Mateo and Dr. Alicia Woods as they explore how our lives would be different on these Earths, talk about other hypothetical planets that could exist, and marvel at the even stranger worlds that astronomers have discovered beyond our solar system.
Scout Badge Workshops
$10.00 per scout (30 minutes)
Mid-America Science Museum is the perfect place for your scout group! We offer badge workshops for Boy & Girl Scouts. (Badge, itself, not included.)
Girl Scouts
Space Science Explorer
- Daisy
- Space scientists are people who study outer space—what’s in the sky. In this badge, you can be a space scientist as you look at the sky and talk about what you see!
Space Science Adventurer
- Brownie
- When I’ve earned this badge, I will know how to investigate and learn about the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.
Space Science Investigator
- Junior
- When I’ve earned this badge I will understand that the Earth orbits the Sun and how far away the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are from our home planet, Earth.
Space Science Researcher
- Cadette
- When I’ve earned this badge, I will understand more about the amazing properties of light and how we use it to make discoveries about the Universe and space science.
Boy Scouts
Super Science Badge
- Bear Cubs
- Bear Cub Scouts will learn about static electricity, buoyancy, and color-morphing while working on the Super Science adventure.
Adventures in Science
- Webelos
- Taking part in this Webelos/Arrow of Light elective adventure will help Webelos understand and apply the role of fair investigations in science. They will acquire and evaluate information using processes associated with science, such as experiments, observation, and note taking.