Hands-on Science and Math Exhibits

All hands on deck! That’s what we’ll be encouraging at Children’s Science Center, where we’ll be providing interactive exhibits that will encourage exploration, stimulate creativity and inspire through active learning.

As we continue to work on securing a building, we’re also in the process of developing our hands-on exhibits. Here are some of our initial ideas:

Environmental Science GO GREEN
We plan to use our own building as an exhibit and teach children and adults how we built a “green” museum through environmentally friendly practices and products. Even our exhibit fabrication will be on display for children to observe.

Outer Space
In the Outer Space area, kids can really experience what it would feel like to walk on the moon, feel the heat radiating off the sun, talk to astronauts in outer space, and fly to distant planets. They can conduct experiments under zero gravity and use math to calculate the distance items would travel through space.

Chesapeake Bay
This would be an exhibit where children could explore the Chesapeake Bay from its start to its end, with an emphasis on the watershed from Washington, DC, through Virginia, and its effects on our daily lives. Kids can learn about marine life, the results of pollution, the interrelationships between organisms, and how each one of us can make a difference.

Touch Tanks
A touch pool would allow visitors to gently touch and learn about marine animals such as blue crabs, hermit crabs, stone crabs, snails, turtles and other animals that live in the Chesapeake Bay.

Surgery Simulation
How cool would it be to actually perform surgery? With the help of computer animation, children can take the concept of the old-fashioned Operation game to new heights by performing simulated surgery, and in the process learn a lot about the human body.

Little Tykes Place
This special area would allow our youngest visitors, from infants to preschoolers, to explore and learn through play in a safe environment populated by kid-sized objects. It will include an extensive teaching collection for exploring natural history, physical science and technology topics.

Construction
In the construction zone, elementary school-aged children would use their imaginations to design and construct bridges, buildings, playgrounds, boats, planes -- whatever they can dream, they can build. Additionally, children will be able to see how things work, take things apart and put them back together again, or design something brand-new.