Pre-K – 12 Experiences

Enter a recreated tomb that houses an authentic, 2,300-year-old mummified person, and learn how modern technology revealed some of its secrets. Your students will learn about the ancient Egyptians’ civilization, beliefs, and customs, and how these people interacted with their Greek and Roman neighbors during the Ptolemaic period (323-30 BC). Your students will also view authentic masks worn by mummified people and learn about ancient Egyptian funerary customs. We strongly recommend booking the King Tut Exhibition Guided Tour AND the Ancient Egypt Gallery Guided Tour.

Hands-On Activity Add-On

Add an engaging, Ancient Egypt-related hands-on activity to make your students’ tours come to life! You may book the Hands-On Activity Add-On for either the Ancient Egypt Gallery OR the King Tut Exhibition Guided Tour.

Add-On will make your Gallery Guided Tour 60 minutes and $6 per student & parent/chaperone.

How do astronomers discover the chemical composition of faraway stars and nebulae? In this hands-on experience, your students will observe gas tubes in a spectroscope to compare the unique spectral lines of common gases.

While also engaging with prisms and diffraction glasses, your students will investigate the properties of light related to the visible light spectrum. The scientific concepts of refraction, diffraction, and reflection are explored with engaging activities related to the electromagnetic spectrum through real-life applications.

How and why do rainbows appear in the sky? In this illuminating introduction to light and color, your students will make exciting discoveries as they explore the visible light spectrum and the behavior of light as it travels through various mediums.

The scientific concepts of refraction, diffraction, and reflection will come to life for your students through experimentation with light sources, diffraction glasses, and giant water prisms.

Your students will sharpen their critical thinking and problem-solving skills as they work collaboratively to build modular robots.

Participants will use the Science and Engineering Practices to develop inventions that sense, compute, and act upon the world around them. As a final activity, students will enjoy a fun and friendly robot race!

Available October 16, 2024 – September 7, 2025

Experience an exciting reconstruction of one of the most important revelations in the history of archeology: King Tutankhamun’s tomb, which Howard Carter rediscovered almost fully intact in 1922. Your students will learn about ancient Egyptian customs and explore certified Egyptian replicas of the opulent artifacts found in King Tut’s tomb, which was the first known, mostly undisturbed ancient Egyptian royal burial site. We strongly recommend booking the King Tut Exhibition Guided Tour AND the Ancient Egypt Gallery Guided Tour so that your students can “meet” the authentic mummified person held in LASM’s Ancient Egypt Gallery.

Hands-On Activity Add-On

Add an engaging, Ancient Egypt-related hands-on activity to make your students’ tours come to life! You may book the Hands-On Activity Add-On for either the Ancient Egypt Gallery OR the King Tut Exhibition Guided Tour.

Add-On will make your Gallery Guided Tour 60 minutes and $6 per student & parent/chaperone.

Explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) by interacting with educational and fun hands-on exhibits in our newly-renovated gallery.

Your students will engage with state-of-the-art exhibits including a Rube Goldberg Machine Wall, an Interactive Periodic Table, an Everbright, and more. In the Curiosity Cabinet displays, hands-on activities related to our collection and current exhibitions provide additional learning opportunities.

• NEW! 3-2-1 Liftoff!
• America’s Musical Journey
• Apollo 11: First Steps Edition
• Dinosaur Passage to Pangaea
• Dream Big: Engineering Our World
• Earth, Moon & Sun
• Earth’s Wild Ride
• Flight of the Butterflies
• Forward! To the Moon
• From the Blue Planet to the Red Planet
• Into America’s Wild
• Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean
• Kaluoka’hina: The Enchanted Reef
• Magic Tree House Space Mission
• Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs
• National Parks Adventure
• NEW! T. REX
• The Life of Trees
• The Secrets of Gravity: In the Footsteps of Albert Einstein

CLICK HERE to download educator guides, view trailers, and learn more about our planetarium shows.

Working collaboratively in teams, your students will use design thinking along with the Science and Engineering Practices to build modular robots that address real-world challenges.

With an emphasis on communication, cooperation, and problem solving, your aspiring engineers will design robots and build programs through hands-on coding. After testing and improving their robot creations, your students will participate in a group challenge to determine which robot is the most efficient!

Investigate the history of our Solar System, from astronomy to geology and paleontology.

Your students will encounter interactive displays that allow them to learn about gravity, virtually travel to the Moon, and more. An exhibit of minerals and fossils, including a 65-million-year-old authentic Triceratops prorsus skull, will teach your students about our aging planet.

Hands-On Activity Add-On Option 1: Astronomy

Add an engaging, astronomy-related hands-on activity to make your students’ tours come to life! Your tour will be adapted to primarily focus on the gallery’s astronomy-related content.

Hands-On Activity Add-On Option 2: Geology

Add an engaging, geology-related hands-on activity to make your students’ tours come to life! Your tour will be adapted to primarily focus on the gallery’s astronomy-related content.

Choosing either Add-On will make your Gallery Guided Tour 60 minutes and $6 per student & parent/chaperone.

Sponsored by Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority  (CPRA)

FREE Program for 4^th–12^th graders!

This exciting program includes a visit to the LSU Center for River Studies and same-day, hands-on classes and programs at LASM. All activities are aligned with the Louisiana Student Standards for Science.

• Tour of the LSU Center for River Studies – Students will explore a 3-dimensional model of the lower 190 miles of the Mississippi River, one of the most technologically advanced models in existence.
• Hands-On Stream Table at LASM – Your students will collaboratively design solutions to real-world environmental challenges by engaging with a state-of-the-art stream table.
• Educational Movie at LASM – Your students will view a related, large-screen educational movie at LASM.

This FREE learning opportunity is available to 4^th through 12^th-grade students on a first-come, first-served basis through LASM’s partnership with the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA).

Contact reservations@lasm.org or 225.344.5272 x 119 to receive the separate booking form for this program.