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Ancient Egypt & Its Art
Students tour the Ancient Egypt Gallery, learn an intricate, age-old metalworking technique, and then create an ancient Egyptian-inspired relief, which they can take home. Includes tour of the Ancient Egypt Gallery.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs (Planetarium Show) and Forensic Crime Lab (Class).
Program Type: Classes Subject: Art, History & Social Studies
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Beetles, Bugs, & Butterflies
This artful approach to science motivates students to explore the amazing world of insects while learning about adaptations, physiology, and the role insects play in their daily lives. Colorful, take-home art projects creatively reinforce scientific concepts.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with The Traveling Trunk Show (Interactive Educational Theater) and Flight of the Butterflies (Planetarium Show).
Program Type: Classes Subject: Art, Life Science
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Dream Big: Engineering Our World
Dream Big: Engineering Our World celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels big and small, and reveals the heart that drives engineers to create better lives for people around the world while transforming the way we think about engineering.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Marbles, Motion, & Magnets, Engineering: Simple Machines, Engineering Encounters, and Robot Design Challenge (Classes).
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Program Type: Planetarium Shows Subject: Math, Physical Science, History & Social Studies, Science & the Environment
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Flight of the Butterflies
Follow the monarchs’ perilous journey, join hundreds of millions of real butterflies in the remote mountain peaks of Mexico, and discover the compelling true story of a scientist’s 40-year search to find the monarchs’ secret hideaway in this beautiful scientific adventure.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with The Traveling Trunk Show (Interactive Educational Theater) and Beetles, Bugs, & Butterflies (Class).
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Program Type: Planetarium Shows Subject: Life Science, History & Social Studies, Science & the Environment
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Investigating the Art Exhibition
Inspired by objects and works of art in the current exhibition, students will explore interdisciplinary connections based on the Louisiana Student Standards. After a participatory tour of the exhibition, they will enjoy hands-on, STEAM-focused activities in a classroom setting. Creative connections that link art with core curriculum content will make learning meaningful, relevant, and memorable. Includes tour of the art exhibition on view.
NEW for 2019-2020!
Program Type: Classes Subject: Art
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean
Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau, invites you to dive into this whole new world that will leave you in awe of the beauty and diversity of the oceans – the source of all life on our planet. Secret Ocean introduces audiences to over 30 species, illuminating behaviors captured for the first time thanks to new underwater filming tools.
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Program Type: Planetarium Shows Subject: Life Science
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Journaling: Learning to Look & Looking to Write
As students explore the art in the current exhibition, they are encouraged to look closely and reflect on what they see. Creative writing activities take place in the gallery, using the art on view for inspiration. These activities will sharpen observation skills as students respond to art through writing while exploring opportunities for collaboration and personal reflection. Includes tour of the art exhibition on view.
Program Type: Classes Subject: Art, English & Language Arts
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Little Art Explorers
Students learn how artists use shapes and colors to create art with inspiration from Henri Matisse and Jacob Lawrence. Young artists use their imaginations and creative skills to make their own original collages. Following a discussion of the color wheel, students get hands-on with fun color mixing activities.
Updated for 2019-2020!
Program Type: Classes Subject: Art, Math
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs
Part historic journey and part forensic adventure, this show follows scientists and explorers as they piece together the archaeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies and reveal the mysterious world of the pharaohs.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Ancient Egypt Gallery (Guided Exploration), Ancient Egypt & Its Art (Class), and Forensic Crime Lab (Class).
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Program Type: Planetarium Shows Subject: Life Science, History & Social Studies
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone
Robot Design Challenge
Students sharpen their critical thinking and problem- solving skills to build modular robots. Working in teams, they will use the Science and Engineering Practices to develop inventions that sense, compute, and act upon the world around them. As students design their robots, they actually build a program through hands-on coding. This class culminates in a race that challenges each group to create the smartest and fastest robot.
Layered Experience: Pairs well with Dream Big: Engineering Our World (Planetarium Show) and Engineering Encounters (Class).
Program Type: Classes Subject: Math, Physical Science
Cost: $6.75 per student & chaperone