Sessions with Descriptions
Activity #1: Sustainable Energy Room: 38 Sponsoring School: Hale Kula Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 2-5 Description: Learn how solar panels turn sunlight into electricity! Learn and play with photovoltaic cells to see how we get energy from sun. Activity #2: Basic Coding Room: 39 Sponsoring School: Hale Kula Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 2-8 Description: Find out how a computer program works by building your own. Students will learn the basics of computer coding through fun online games. Can you reach a higher level than your friends? Activity #3: Wahiawa Exploratorium Room: P18 Sponsoring School: Helemano Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 2-5 Description: Have you ever wondered how clouds form? How we get electricity? How airplanes can fly? What do you wonder about? Come explore how things work in this interactive science museum. Go from one station to another and explore the wonderful world of science. Our goal is for you to leave our museum wondering about the world around you. Live a curious life at the Wahiawa Exploratorium. Activity #4: Lemon Light Room: 44 Sponsoring School: `Iliahi Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 3-5 Description: Use potatoes to light an LED light bulb as you learn how a battery works in a simple circuit and how chemical energy changes to electrical energy. As students learn more about electrical energy, they better understand the concepts of voltage, current and resistance. Activity #5: LEGO Mindstorms Introduction to Robotics Room: P16 Sponsoring School: `Iliahi Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 3-5 Description: Work in a group to program and operate a LEGO Mindstorm robot. Students will use an Apple laptop to apply technology into the programming and operation of the robot. Activity #6: Secret Messages Room: 102 Sponsoring School: Ka`ala Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 2-3 Description: Learn about sound and its different properties. Student will use common household items to create secret codes using sound. Their partners will then need to decode the message. Activity #7: Project Catapult Room: 103 Sponsoring School: Ka`ala Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 4-5 Description: Good at Angry Birds? Put your skills to the test in the Project Catapult class. Build your own catapult using cups, rubber bands, spoons and tape. Use your catapult to launch balls of paper to hit the pigs. Make your catapult better than your friends' and then challenge them to a game. All materials are provided, but only the best catapult will win. Activity #8: Polynesian Wayfinding and Canoes Room: 40 Sponsoring Organization: Polynesian Voyaging Society Appropriate for Grades: K-4 Description: Help create a Hawaiian Star compass and learn how it is used to navigate. Students will also learn the parts of a Hawaiian canoe and build their own model canoe to take home. |
Activity #9: Sonic Insulation Bags Room: 105 Sponsoring School: Solomon Elementary Appropriate for Grades: K-4 Description: Discover how sound travels and create the best sound insulators. Activity #10: Let's Talk Room: 104 Sponsoring School: Solomon Elementary Appropriate for Grades: K-3 Description: Discover how sound is transmitted and create a simple communication device. Activity #11: May the FORCE Be With You Room: 47 Sponsoring School: Wahiawa Elementary Appropriate for Grades: K-2 Description: Experiment with different "forces" found around us everyday. Activity #12: Owl Pellets Room: 46 Sponsoring School: Wahiawa Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 4-6 Description: Dissect an owl pellet to determine what was digested and piece together bones to determine the owl's habitat. Activity #13: Kolorful Kaleidoscopes Room: Cafeteria Sponsoring School: Wahiawa Middle Appropriate for Grades: 2-8 Description: Build an eye-catching home-made kaleidoscope out of basic materials, and learn how mirrors and colors can be used to create beautiful visual effects. Activity #14: Gumdrop Dome Room: 50 Sponsoring School: Wheeler Elementary Appropriate for Grades: K-5 Description: Can you build the strongest building with the fewest materials? Come be an engineer and design and construct a building using gumdrops and toothpicks. Find out how architects use math shapes in their buildings and see if your building can be the tallest while holding the most weight. Activity #15: Flight Line Room: P19 Sponsoring School: Wheeler Elementary Appropriate for Grades: 2-5 Description: There are many forces that help and prevent things from moving. Construct an airplane and see if it can fly the fastest, then fight gravity and fly vertically. Activity #16: Balloon Car Experiment Room: 101 Sponsoring School: Wheeler Middle Appropriate for Grades: 5-8 Description: Build a balloon-powered race car using everyday materials. Activity #17: Magnificent Magnet Room: 48 Sponsoring School: Wheeler Middle Appropriate for Grades: 6-8 Description: Create your own electromagnet. What will it pick up? Can you redesign it to improve its magnetic power? Students will investigate the properties of an electromagnet and experiment with ways to change its strength. |
- All elementary students must be accompanied by an adult or a responsible sibling / family member.
- Each ticket will admit one student and one adult / family member.