Student workshops can help to enrich the New York City (NYC) Science Core Curriculum/Scope and Sequence, and meet the New York State and National Standards.

Fee: $225 for a 45 minute session with a max of 32 students. Pre-K workshops starts at age 4.

Bookings start November 1, 2023

BUBBLE BRAINSTORM

Grades Pre-K – 2

Observing, Predicting, Investigating and Tool Making:

Engage in science process skills (conducting experiments, comparing, classifying and sharing findings) exploring the properties of bubbles and making your own bubble blowing tools and blowing lots of bubbles!

Grade Pre K – NYC Unit 7 P-PS1-1, NYS P-PS1-1

Grade K – NYC Unit 1 K-PS1-1, NYS P-PS1-1

Grade 2 – NYC Unit 1 2-ESS2-2, NYS 2-ESS2-2

FLOAT, SINK, DESIGN A FLINK!

Grades Pre-K – 2

Explore buoyancy and properties
 of different materials by testing and classifying whether everyday objects sink or float. Use the results from your investigations to design, predict and test your own creations to determine whether they sink or float.

Grade Pre-K – NYC Unit 7 P-PS1-1, NYS P-PS1-1

Grade K – NYC Unit 1 K-PS1-1, NYS K-PS1-1
Grade 2 – NYC Unit 1 2-PS1-1, NYS 2-PS1-1

MIXING COLOR

Grades K – 2

Explore the colors of the visible spectrum through hands-on experiments and learn the differences between primary and secondary colors. Participate in an interactive story-time and make a colorful collage to take home.

NGSS-Patterns

FIVE SENSES

Grades K – 2

Learn how our five senses work together to perceive information in the world around
us. Participate in hands-on activities that require using your senses
to identify what you see, feel, touch and taste. View optical illusions, hear and see sound using tuning forks, distinguish different textures and identify mystery objects or scents to draw conclusions on how your senses work.

Grade 1 – NYC Unit 2 1-PS4-1, NYS 1-PS4-1

CLASSY CLASSIFICATION

Grades K – 2

Delve into the fascinating world of insects and learn how entomologists identify insects through body parts. Observe preserved bugs to compare and contrast insects from other organisms and perform your own sorting of artificial insects. Includes interactive story-time.

Grade K - NYC Unit 3 K-ESS3-1, NYS K-ESS3-1

Grade 1 - NYC Unit 3 1-LS1-1, NYS 1-LS1-1

Grade 2- NYC Unit 3 2-LS2-2, NYS 2-LS2-2

REFLECTING ON MIRRORS

Grades 2–4

Enter the realm of the looking glass. Experiment with light reflection and symmetry by predicting laser bounces. Assemble your own kaleidoscope or magic box.

Grade 4 NYC Unit 3, 4-PS3-3, NYS 4-PS3-3

BOUNCE, BALANCE AND PLAY

Grades 3 – 6

Test your balancing skills while you discover how balance is related to sports. Observe the relationship between kinetic and potential energy. Investigate the shape and composition of various balls to see what makes them bounce, fly or roll as far as they do. Make predictions, conduct trial experiments and collect data
 on the elasticity of various balls.

Grade 3 - NYC Unit 4 3-PS2-1, 3-PS2-2, NYS 3-PS2-1, 3-PS2-2

Grade 4- NYC Unit 2 4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-4, NYS 4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-4

MICROBES AND MICROSCOPES

Grades 3 – 5

Learn how to use 
a microscope to investigate the fascinating world of microorganisms. Prepare slides to observe and analyze the shapes, colors and sizes of various live microbes and how they move and feed. Take home your own magnifying lens to conduct your own magnification investigations!

Grade 3 - NYC Unit 1 3-LS1-1, 3-LS3-2, NYS 3-LS1-1, 3-LS3-2

Grade 4 - NYC Unit 1 4-LS1-1, NYS 4-LS1-1

Grade 5 - NYC Unit 2 5-LS1-1, NYS 5-LS1-1

THE EYES HAVE IT

Grades 3 – 7

Experiment with various optical illusions and learn how the brain can deceive
the eye. Conduct investigations on depth perception, use color filters to make 3D glasses, and create your own optical illusion toy.

Grade 7 - NYC Unit 3 MS-LS1-8, NYS MS-LS1-8

PUSH, PULL, YANK AND CRANK

Grades 4 – 8

Define force, weight and work. Experiment with simple machines such as levers, pulleys and wheels to determine the qualitative and quantitative relationship between force and work.

Grade 8 – Unit 1 MS-PS2-2, NYS MS-PS2-2

COLOR MY WORLD

Grades 4 – 8

Examine the mysteries of color and light by investigating the visible spectrum, color absorption and reflection. Observe objects under unique monochromatic color filters and discover how colors can be blocked to create secret messages. Make and take home a device that utilizes diffraction grating lens to observe the spectrum.

NGSS: Energy

HOT CITIES, COOL SCIENCE: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE CITY

Grades 5 – 8

Test your urban planning skills and help New Yorkers prepare for the effects of a changing climate. Investigate the impacts of heavier rainfall and rising temperatures on our city, and use green infrastructure concepts to design a more resilient New York City.

Grade 5 – NYC Unit 1/ NYS S1.1a-S3.2e

Grade 6 – NYC Unit 2/ NYS LE 7.2d

Grade 8 – NYC Unit 4 / NYS 7.1e, 7.2b, 7.2c, 7.2d

MINERAL MADNESS

Grades 6 – 10

Sharpen observation skills while learning about minerals, how they are different than rocks, and how they are classified through their various properties. Sort mineral samples by color and luster, and perform a streak test to identify minerals.

Grades 9 to 10 – NYC Earth Science Unit 3

NYS HS­ ESS2-3

D–N–AMAZING

Grades 6 – 12

Discover the shared chemistry that exists among living things. Engage in an interactive lab protocol utilizing lab equipment (goggles, gloves, pipettes, microcentrifuge tubes, chemical solutions) to extract DNA from your own cheek cells and learn how the same units of DNA lead to the diversity of living things.

Grade 7 - NYC Unit 3- MS-LS1-2, NYS MS-LS1-2

Grade 8 - NYC Unit 3 MS LS3-1, MS LS3-2, NYS MS LS3-1, MS LS3-2

Grades 9 to 12 – LE Units 4, NYS HS-LS1-1

FORENSIC FRENZY

Grades 7 – 10

Use critical thinking strategies and forensic science techniques to solve a mystery. Examine trace evidence to record and interpret data in order to formulate a conclusion.

Grades 9 to 10 – NYC LE Unit