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Would You Have Gone with Lewis & Clark?
 
The  Lewis & Clark Expedition is an exciting adventure story full of science, history and literature that will thrill your students. South Dakota’s own scholar/storyteller will have your students considering “Would they have gone with Lewis & Clark?” Shows also available on “Christmas on the Trail” and “Encounters, Escapes and Escapades.”
Maximum: 50 students
Sessions: 6 per day
Grades 1 - 8


Solids, Liquids, Gases

Believe it or not, not everything boils at 100 degrees C and freezes at 0 degrees C. Experiment with what happens to balloons, rubber balls, hot dogs and flowers when they meet with liquid nitrogen and dry ice. Learning about the states of matter has never been so exciting.
Maximum: 25 students
Sessions: 6 per day
Grades 2 - 5

Starlab Astronomy
Programs were developed with the support of Amoco Oil Company.

Astronomy: The Sky Tonight -
Using the hundreds of stars projected on the ceiling of our portable planetarium, our educator will demonstrate how to use the Big Dipper as a guidepost to the major constellations and explain the fundamentals of astronomy.
Maximum: 25 students (20 high school)
Sessions: 6 per day
Grades 1 and up
 
Lakota Star Knowledge
The Lakota Nation has always looked to nature for its guidance. View the constellations as they see them. Learn how they used the constellations as maps, clocks and for teaching life lessons to their children.
Maximum: 25 students (20 high school)
Sessions: 6 per day
Grades 1 and up
 
GEMS
We can develop an outreach program based around any of our GEMS kits.  Please contact Kristie or Sue (605-224-8295) for more information.
Maximum: varies
Sessions: varies
PreK and up
 

Discovery Outreach Program Fees

$275 per day

plus .32 cents per mile,
$19 per diem, and lodging

 

ATTENTION ALL SCHOOLS

in the following counties:
Walworth, Stanley, Hughes, Potter, Jackson, Tripp, Sully, Todd, Pennington, Lyman, Gregory, Davison

You are eligible to receive

1/2 off the price of SD Discovery Center Programs

There are no grants to write, no forms to fill out, no hoops to jump through, simply call 224-8295 to schedule a program for your school. This unique opportunity for you to bring exciting science demonstrations & workshops to your school is brought to you by

THE BANKWEST FOUNDATION

 
 
 
 

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