Classroom Programs and Labs

Fridays
Age 3–Grade 1 

Jambo! Take a “safari” through Africa. Find out why elephants have big ears and zebras have stripes, practice counting at the Savuti water hole, crawl through a “burrow” like a warthog, and pronk like an antelope. Visit Botswana Hall.

Wednesdays
Age 3–Grade 1

Travel back in time to explore the life of American Indians. Compare and contrast different tribes from various regions while experiencing the culture through dramatic play and immersive games and activities. Visit North American Indian Cultures Hall.

Mondays
Age 3–Grade 1

G’day mate! Take a trip to Australia and learn about marsupials, make a plateful of food for a kookaburra, dress like an echidna and a frilled lizard, and hop like a kangaroo.

Tuesdays
Age 3–Grade 2

Join an expedition to seek out dinosaur bones. Touch real fossils that reveal our prehistoric past, and use creative play to act out the fossilization process of a dinosaur.

Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
Grades K–6

Compare the lifestyles of Colorado American Indian tribes. Experience life on the Great Plains in a tipi. Learn to weave, bead, and make pottery. Play music and trade artifacts at a “powwow.”

Mondays–Fridays
Grades K–6

Learn how animals and plants are uniquely adapted to life in Colorado’s ecosystems. Investigate predator-prey relationships using clues revealed by skulls and pelts. Encounter wildlife all the way from Colorado’s low-lying wetlands to the high alpine.

Mondays–Fridays
Grades K–3

Explore the objects of our solar system in a hands-on, interactive program. View the relative sizes and distances between the planets and sun with 3D visuals. Dress up as the moon to understand the lunar phases.

Mondays–Fridays
Grades 5 & 6

Explore puberty during a sensitive, respectful, coed discussion led by a professional educator. Discuss the physical and emotional changes of growing and changing. Ask honest questions about puberty changes and get honest answers.

Thursdays
Age 3–Grade 1

Black bear, brown bear, polar bear—what’s the difference? Build a bear habitat, walk like a bear, dig for food with your bear paws, and prepare for a long sleep through the cold season.

Mondays–Fridays
Grades 2–5

From saliva to bile and rugae to villi, explore the unusual and sometimes gross parts of your digestive system, aka your guts. Culminate your study as you observe the dissection of a frog’s digestive system.

Grades 6–8
(available January 2010)

The human body is built to move. Understand how our respiratory, circulatory, and musculo-skeletal systems work together to help us run, play, and dance.

Mondays–Fridays
Grades 4–8

Study the components of blood and its importance to the body. Experiment with heart rates using a stethoscope, and learn the benefits of exercise, a healthy diet, and not smoking. Conduct an in-depth study during small-group dissections of a sheep heart.

Mondays–Fridays
Grades 4–8

Develop an understanding of the respiratory system by examining physiology, lung capacity, and anatomy. Conduct an in-depth study during small-group dissections of a sheep lung.

Mondays–Fridays
Grades 4–8

Think outside the box with this unique, inquiry-based lab! Learn about robots that are working in space science today. Use small motors and various robot components to build and engineer a robot for specific tasks.