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February 26th & 27th, 2010

Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA

Friday, February 26th from 10am-1pm: Grades K-6

Saturday, February 27th from 10am-4pm: Open to the public

Questions? Comments? Send an email to: PET1533@cup.edu

Activities (mouse over for descriptions)

Pressure	Play With a Raindrop	Cookie Topography	Edible Lanfills	Tornado in a Jar
Cloud in a Bottle	Chemical and Physical Weathering	Acid Rain	Cloud Spotter Guides	Japanese Hanging Fish
Make a Rock	Wind Sock	Homemade Paper	Magma Lamps	Make a Weather Map
Rain Stick	Solar System Strips	Water Cycle Bracelets	Cup Cake Core Sampling	Fossil Prints
Homemade Thermometers	Lemon Batteries	Pinwheels	Water Density	Evaporation
Paper Snowflakes	Glurch		Scratch & Sniff Stickers	Handprints Suns

Shows how high and low pressure systems work and how the air will sink or rise.

Children can make different size rain drops and learn about why they are shaped the way they are.

Look at the way a chocolate chip cookie can be compared to the earth’s surface.

Learn about the different layers of a landfill and what each layer does to help conserve our planet.

Make a tornado and see what happens to things that get in its way.

Discover how clouds form right before your eyes.

Explain how rocks are worn down by multiple sources from plates moving against each other to rain with chemicals inside.

Using Chalk watch how acid rain affects so many different structures.

Make your own wheel to show you what kind of clouds you are seeing in the sky.

Cut out your own fish and streamers and make decorative hanging fish just like in Japan.

Make a rock with your own special touch of add in’s no one rock will be alike.

Make your own wind sock and hang it to see the wind direction.

Learn how to conserve our planet by recycling newspaper and making your own paper.

Learn about the properties of different liquids and why a magma lamp does what it does.

Be your own forecaster, tell your audience about what is happening outside.

Listen to the sound of the rainforest inside your own paper tubes.

Learn where the planets are in the solar system in relation to each other.

Learn how a drop of water travels in a circle and what forms it can take using different colored beads.

Take a sample of your “earth” and see the different layers, just like the layers beneath your feet.

Learn how fossils are made and how many different types of fossils there could be.

Make your own thermometer and watch the temperature change before your eyes.

Learn the electrical properties of a lemon.

Make your own pinwheel and take it outside and watch the wind move it.

Watch how tap water and salt water have different weights.

Feel how water evaporates and how it is a cooling process.

Make your own snowflake and see how every snowflake is different.

This slime will stretch and then go back together again, pick your own color!

Color pictures and choose your sent to scratch and sniff your personal sticker.

Make your very own sun by cutting out your traced handprints!