Outreach - Science Carnival

Sci-Port brings science and math or space science exploration galleries to you!
Watch your classroom curriculum come alive! Let us deliver hands-on science and math programs to your school through Sci-Port's Science Carnival Outreach. Choose between two themes: Gee Whiz! or Space Journeys, and let us take care of the rest.

Why Science Carnival?

Faculty loves the teacher workshops that give them fresh ideas for inquiry-based teaching methods.
Students love the zany science presentations and the chance to experiment, manipulate and make WOW things happen.
Administrators love the results!

Teachers are saying:
"The exploration allowed for cause and effect in a way the students could understand."
"Excellent Sci-Port preparation for discussions before and after free exploration."
"All the activities used hit the GLEs perfectly."

Science Carnival transforms any space into an engaging learning environment, instantly!

Sci-Port staff provides a preparatory teachers' workshop and resource materials, student-involved demos, and a structured environment for classes to interact with the exhibits.
Science Carnival also is available for festivals, libraries, churches and community centers.
Portable outreach exhibits are set up by Sci-Port in one hour!

Science Carnival Pricing
Includes interactive exhibits, program demonstrations, teachers' workshop and resource materials.
$750 Caddo and Bossier Parish schools and other local venues
$950 All other schools and venues
For trips of 60 miles or more, add $1.75 per roundtrip mile travel cost.

For additional information, call (318) 424-8660.


Up to 300 students per day -- 60 per hour -- can receive the full experience of GeeWhiz Science Carnival.	Up to 250 students per day -- 50 per hour -- can receive the full experience of Space Journeys Science Carnival.
A potpourri of curriculum-based science and math fun that features 25 hands-on exhibits at eight stations. Designed for PreK-8th grades.	An adventure exploring the space sciences that features 15 hands-on exhibits and a StarLab portable planetarium. Designed for PreK-12th grades.
*Interactive Exhibits* MUSIC: The Science! Laser Harp, Digital Music Box, Xylo-Fun MUSIC: The Art! Air Guitar, Handy Bongos, Rock Rap'n Roll SIMPLE MATH Equations (2 variations), Fractions (2 variations) NUMBERS & SHAPES Make it Fit, World of Numbers, Inside a Shape MAGNETISM Attracting Art, Magnetic Sculptures, Compass Garden ALL ABOUT ME Reaction Speed, Balance Beam, How Tall LIGHT & COLOR Light Lenses, Laser Bullseye, Rainbows ELECTRICITY Build a Circuit (3 variations) CATENARY ARCH Build a Walk-On Bridge *PLUS. . .* *Six Interactive Programs* YOUR AMAZING BODY Explore the unexpected functions of your internal and external organs. NOISEMAKERS Discover the difference between noise and music, and learn how sound travels. BE A CONDUCTOR Find out if the human body conducts electricity! STRONG SHAPES Learn why architects use domes and arches. Then, build one of each! BUBBLEGUM CALCULATIONS Determine the percentage of mass that is sugar in a piece of bubble gum. OOEY GOOEY GLOOP Learn about states of matter and create a polymer to take home.	*Interactive Exhibits* LIVING IN SPACE Astronaut Suit, Space Bed, Space Food WORKING IN SPACE Robotic Station, Space Gloves, Tools in Space MOTION & GRAVITY Gravity Well, Planetary Slingshot PLANETS & ASTRONOMY Planetary Weight, Starry Night, Earth Puzzle OUR SKY Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring STARLAB Portable Planetarium *PLUS. . .* *Six Interactive Programs* BE AN ASTRONAUT Create your own space food, discover how astronauts sleep, and try on a space suit. STARGAZERS Gaze at the stars, the moon, planets, constellations, star clusters, and even galaxies in our Starlab. PEEK AT THE PLANETS Learn about the planets, their properties, and where you would find them in the sky. BABY BEAR See the stars as they move across the night sky and hear stories about the constellations. MEET THE PLANETS Your students will practice listening and following directions as they learn about the eight planets in our solar system. In this NASA Star Child activity, students will follow one and two step verbal directions as they learn about the order and characteristics of the planets. PLANETARY SHUFFLE Students will learn about the planetary orbits and discover the vastness of the solar system and the order of our eight planets as they walk a scaled model of the Solar System. Discover how the spin of the Earth creates a day and the orbit of the Earth around the Sun creates an Earth year.
In recognition of the following sponsors: ChevronTexaco Foundation BancorpSouth Charles T. Beaird Foundation Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier Douglas F. & Marion S. Attaway Charitable Income Trust Advised Fund Mrs. Bobbie C. Hicks The Hicks Fund Junior League of Shreveport-Bossier, Inc. Charles T. & Mary S. McCord Foundation Shreveport Medical Alliance	In recognition of the following sponsors: The Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier Institute of Museum & Library Services Charles T. Beaird Foundation Bank One Fibrebond Corporation Hibernia National Bank Kilpatrick Life Insurance Rose-Neath Funeral Home Dayna & Ronald L. Sawyer The Times/Gannett Foundation

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