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601 Light Street at ’s | www.marylandsciencecenter.org | A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization operating in the state of FREQUENTLYFREQUENTLY ASKEDASKED QUESTIONSQUESTIONS General Questions About Visiting the Maryland Science Center (MSC) What are the costs? What should I do upon Can teachers preview the What happens if my ALL MARYLAND STUDENTS our arrival? museum before their numbers decrease or AND CHAPERONES VISIT THE When you arrive, leave your group visits? increase the day of visit? EXHIBIT HALLS FOR FREE. students on the bus while Yes. All Maryland teachers are You will only need to pay you check in the group. You admitted to the exhibit halls for the actual attendees. If IMAX, Planetarium, Kids Room, will be issued a sticker for free of charge, with a school you have optional programs enrichment experiences, and every student, teacher, and ID or pay stub. that are limited by capacity, other programs are available chaperone. Once everyone is we will do our best to as add-ons. For a full listing of accounted for, you may enter accommodate everyone. additional options and pricing, the Maryland Science Center including pricing for non- and enjoy your visit. Maryland schools, see pg. 6. Questions About the Traveling Science Do you provide guided tours? Is a deposit required? What are the accepted Program (TSP) No. We encourage you to payment methods? Our Traveling Science Program vans begin their educational experience the museum Who should I make the journeys in Maryland and beyond for the 2019-2020 school year through self-exploration. check out to? starting October 1, 2019. We offer structured No deposits are needed. All educational programs. How do I arrange for TSP to visit my school? payments are due on the Bookings are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. How long does it usually date of arrival. Payments Contact the TSP Reservations Department at 410-545-5968 take to go through the can be made in the form of or email [email protected]. A member of general exhibits? cash, credit (Visa, MasterCard, the TSP Reservations Department can answer questions, offer We recommend allotting American Express, or Discover), scheduling suggestions, review costs, and book the date you approximately two hours to visit or a check made out to the FREQUENTLY ASKEDQUESTIONS select for TSP to visit your school. the general exhibits. More in- Maryland Science Center. depth investigation will require When can I phone the TSP Reservations Department? Non-Maryland schools must additional time. Staff are on hand Monday through Friday from 2pm-9pm. bring payment on the day of Certain months fill up quickly so phone early with your desired their visit. Maryland schools program, date, and time. who plan on using a purchase order or requesting an invoice TSP Pricing on pg. 6 must do so at the time of their TSP Programs on pg. 25 reservation—not on the day of

01 their visit. TABLETABLE OFOF CONTENTSCONTENTS Our store offers a wide selection of E items that complement our programs Trip Checklist pg. 4 H T and exhibits. Kits, games, teaching Pricing pg. 6 CE aids, resource books, gifts, and Special Opportunities for School Groups pg. 7 SCIEN souvenirs are all available for purchase. Earth & Nature Exhibits pg. 8 RE The Science Store is open during Health & Human Body Exhibits pg. 8 STO regular Maryland Science Center Early Childhood Exhibits pg. 9 hours of operation. We offer educators a 10% discount with proper ID. Physics & Phenomena Exhibits pgs. 9 & 10 Space & Aerospace Science Exhibits pg. 10 For groups who don’t have time to shop during a visit, pre-packaged science Enrichment Experiences pgs. 11 & 12 sacks are available for advance IMAX pg. 13 purchase. The sacks are $3 each PLM pgs. 15 & 16 and can be customized Schedule by Time & Date pgs. 17 - 19 according to the age of Traveling Science Program pgs. 20 - 22 your group. Please order at least two weeks prior to your visit.

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for Emails” in the top right corner of the screen. 410.545.5929 AT A RESERVATIONIST PHONE 02 TRIPTRIP TIPSTIPS FORFOR SCHOOLSCHOOL GROUPSGROUPS InformationInformation toto HaveHave BeforeBefore CallingCalling toto BookBook YourYour ReservationReservation For Teachers For Your Students Programs are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call early to ensure your activities and visit dates are available. • Provide several challenges for students to meet during their visit. • Prepare a schedule of the day’s activities, including when and where lunch is to be eaten, as well as any special programming that your • Create questions that require students to read, manipulate, observe, students are scheduled to attend. and interact with exhibits. • Remind your students that each is a representative of the school and • Prepare your chaperones with trip information such as agendas and needs to behave appropriately while visiting MSC. schedules, as well as copies of the Chaperone Guide found below. • Inform your students that each must stay with his or her chaperone at • Include all parents of students attending in your chaperone count even all times. if they did not accompany you on the bus.

• For the safety and benefit of all our visitors, school groups without the proper number of chaperones (one adult per ten students) will not be Chaperone Tips admitted to the Maryland Science Center. • Know how many students are

PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | TRIP TIPS FOR SCHOOL GROUPS • Make sure your students are easily identifiable to your chaperones and in your group and do a head count from time-to-time, especially when our staff. There can be hundreds of students attending MSC on the day moving from one level to another.

of your visit. If possible, have them wear the same color shirts or shirts • Know the name of every student in your group. with the school logo on them. • Provide students with information on where they are going and what Scavenger Hunt they will see. A scavenger hunt to use during your visit can be downloaded from • Be aware of goals the teacher set for the students’ visit. MSC’s website. Visit www.marylandsciencecenter.org and navigate to Learn and then select Resources. The Scavenger Hunt can be found • Challenge your students to think about what they are seeing by in the Educator Resources section, along with other activities to asking thoughtful questions that explore the HOW, WHAT, WHEN, supplement your visit! WHERE, and WHY of science. Important Information Important Policies To Know If you must cancel your field trip, please call the MSC reservationistat • Chaperones are required to remain with their students AT ALL TIMES. least one full calendar week before your scheduled visit. Those who fail to provide a week’s notice will be charged a late cancellation fee of $75 • Groups of students are not permitted to visit MSC without an or 25% of the total reservation, whichever is higher. There is no charge adult chaperone.

to reschedule due to a school closure or weather emergency. • Chaperones are responsible for APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR of all In the event of severe weather, the Maryland Science Center may close. students in their group. Watch WBAL-TV for weather-related closings. To verify we are open in • Groups exhibiting inappropriate behavior will be asked to leave the case of inclement weather, please phone the 24-hour information line Science Center without a refund. after 7am on the day of your visit: 410-685-5225. Following a weather 03 emergency, call the MSC reservationist to reschedule. InformationInformation toto HaveHave BeforeBefore CallingCalling toto BookBook YourYour ReservationReservation Programs are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call early to ensure your activities and visit dates are available. Tell Us About Yourself and Your School Tell Us About Yourself and Your Group Booking Information Phone the MSC Reservationist Number of Students in Group Monday-Friday: 10am-4pm Your Full Name (Mr/Mrs/Ms/Dr) Number of Teachers Field Trips: 410.545.5929

Name of Contact on Visit Date Number of Chaperones Timeline (if different from above) Reservations are accepted by phone only Grade Level and must be made at least FOUR WEEKS Date of Visit before your visit. The Maryland Science School Name Grade(s) Center does not admit groups without Type of School: Public Private Time of Arrival reservations. *Please have a second date in mind in the event that your first choice is not available. Confirmation: A confirmation will be School Address mailed to you prior to your scheduled visit. Tell Us About What You Want to Do Payment City/State/Zip Code You will pay upon arrival with cash, check, Enrichment Experience (Title of Program) or credit card. Checks should be made

payable to the Maryland Science Center. County (Maryland Only) St. John Properties IMAX (Title of Program) We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. We will not accept Contact Phone Number Davis Planetarium (Title of Program) purchase orders from, nor will we invoice, *Please have alternate program choices in mind in out of state groups. the event that your first choice is not available. Email Other Important Information Calculate the Cost of Your Trip • Group rates are valid weekdays only, I would like to receive emails about Student Teacher & October 1-June 19 except major holidays. upcoming teacher workshops and special Chaperone educator resources. • Familiarize yourself with our program Admission grade levels and capacities. We recommend that you visit prior to your field Enrichment Experiences FREE trip to familiarize yourself with the exhibits Planetarium • You must have 15 people or more and plan challenges for your students. MSC Kids Room FREE per program. offers FREE ADMISSION to the exhibit halls IMAX • Please inform us of anyone with to Maryland teachers when visiting without a Total Fee for Students special needs or disabilities. school group throughout the year. Upon arrival, Total Fee for Teachers/Chaperones 410.545.5929 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE INFROMATION RESERVATION present your educator identification (school ID, Reminder: You need ONE CHAPERONE for DON’T FORGET LUNCH payroll receipt, etc.) to a ticket agent. every TEN STUDENTS See pg. 5 04 LUNCHLUNCH

Date of Visit Meals are $7.00/per person. All meals come with a beverage. Quantity Cost Total Number of People in Your Group Hot Meals Classic Cheeseburger with French Fries Group Leader Classic Burger with French Fries

Chicken Fingers (2 ea.) with French Fries Organization/School Name Hot Dog with French Fries Personal Cheese Pizza Phone Cold Meals Fax Ham & Cheese Sandwich with House Made Chips Turkey & Cheese Sandwich Lunch times (80 max per seating, 30 min segments) with House Made Chips Chicken Caesar Wrap with House Made Chips Peanut Butter & Jelly with House Made Chips Outside food and beverage is not permitted in Elements Cafe. Garden Salad

Groups can utlilize the Brown Bag Zone on a first-come, first-served Beverages basis. The Brown Bag Zone is located adjacent to the Key Highway entrance. Fountain Soda 16oz. Milk Allow 30 minutes per seating and keep your schedule to ensure everyone in your party eats on time. Hot Chocolate All lunches must be pre-ordered and guaranteed 72 hours prior Juice Box to your scheduled visit. Bottled Water 20oz.

Coffee (Adults Only) All lunch orders must be paid for upon arrival the day of your visit with cash, credit card, or certified check made out to Add On Spectra Food Services. Fruit Cup +$1.00 Please contact our Executive Chef, Chris Parker, with any menu Granola Bar +$1.00

LUNCH ORDER FORM questions or food allergies at [email protected] or [email protected]

To place your order, please scan and email this page to boxlunch@ Total Cost marylandsciencecenter.org or mail to Chris Parker, Executive Chef, Maryland Science Center, 601 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230 Tax Exempt Number

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05 Sign ACTIVITY PRICING The Maryland Science Center welcomes all MARYLAND students and chaperones reserving as a group to its exhibit halls FREE of charge. Plan your visit early and make your reservation today.

Maryland School School Groups Family Science Night Groups Only* Outside of Maryland* (FSN) and/or Students Teachers Chaperones Students Teachers Chaperones Family Engineering Basic Admission FREE FREE FREE $8.50 FREE $5.00 Night (FEN)

Enrichment Experiences Students Teachers Chaperones Students Teachers Chaperones Family Science Night and Observatory $7.50 FREE FREE $7.50 FREE FREE or Family Engineering $1,500 Night (8 activities) Students Teachers Chaperones Students Teachers Chaperones Davis Planetarium $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 FSN Activities PLUS 4 FEN Activities $2,250 St. John Properties Students Teachers Chaperones Students Teachers Chaperones (12 activities total) IMAX Theater $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 $7.50 FSN Activities AND Students Teachers Chaperones Students Teachers Chaperones FEN Activities $3,000 Kids Room $2.00 FREE FREE $2.00 FREE FREE (16 activities total)

* Prices valid weekdays only, October 1 - June 19 (excluding major holidays).

Traveling Science Program The first day of TSP programming will be October 1, 2019. Assembly Programs Up to 250 participants 250 to 500 participants 250 to 500 participants 50 minutes each $575 $1050 $1150 Maximum 2 per day 1 presentation 2 presentations, same title 2 presentations, different titles Dinosaurs or Mixing Up Science Up to 100 participants 101 to 200 participants 201 to 300 participants Assembly Program $525 $675 $825 30 minutes each 1 presentation 2 presentations, same title 3 presentations, same title Maximum 3 per day Classroom Programs Up to 90 participants 91 to 120 participants 121 to 150 participants 50 minutes each $435 $535 $635 Maximum 5 per day 1-3 presentations, same title 4 presentations, same title 5 presentations, same title

STARLAB Programs Up to 120 participants 121 to 240 participants 50 minutes each $575 $1050 Maximum 8 per day 1-4 presentations 5-8 presentations PRICING | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE PRICING All pricing is based on reservations booked for weekdays during normal operating hours. An additional $70 fee is required for weekend or night programs. A $180 overnight fee may be charged for travel to a location more than 2.5 hours away. 06 SPECIALSPECIAL OPPORTUNITIESOPPORTUNITIES FORFOR SCHOOLSCHOOL GROUPSGROUPS

Camp-In Family Science Night (FSN) & Sleepover For School Groups! Family Engineering Night (FEN) Grades: 3-6 Bring the Maryland Science Center to your school for an evening devoted Capacity: 90 children per night, to family fun, community-building, and learning. Family Science Night plus adult chaperones is a two-hour program designed to engage students and their families in Time: Fridays and Saturdays, Winter-Spring STEM related activities. An additional offering of Family Engineering Night is available for an evening focused exclusively on design challenges and Campers will engineering concepts. • Participate in hands-on space science workshops PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCHOOL GROUPS Your reservation includes • View a planetarium show • 8 hands-on science or engineering activities • View an IMAX movie • 8 Maryland Science Center staff members, one for each activity • Visit three floors ofinteractive exhibits • Promotional flyer • Spend a night at the museum • Activity passport for students • 8 Maryland Science Center visitor vouchers for prizes Also includes • Snack and Breakfast The fee for either FSN or FEN is $1500. See page 6 for additional programming options. Pricing is based on schools within an hour of • Participation patch Baltimore City. Additional fees may apply for schools at a greater distance. Call 410-545-5958 or email [email protected] This program may be eligible for Title I Parent Involvement funding. for more information and to begin your reservation. Call 410-545-5968 or email [email protected] for more information and to begin your reservation. R Free Admission Online Resources TO For Teachers Information identifying links between Next Generation Science UCA The Maryland Science Center Standards and MSC exhibits, enrichment experiences, and theater ED offers FREE ADMISSION to our shows is available from the MSC website. This and other resources exhibit halls to all credentialed including a scavenger hunt for use during your visit and step-by- RESOURCES step science experiments are all available for download. Maryland teachers, when not visiting with a school group Visit www.marylandsciencecenter.org and navigate to "Learn" and throughout the year. select "Resources." Links and materials can be found within the Upon arrival, present your "Educator Resources" section. educator identification (school

07 ID, payroll receipt, etc.) to a ticket agent. CORE EXHIBITS

Our Core Exhibits are the centerpiece of our educational EARTH AND NATURE initiatives and form the Dinosaur Mysteries foundation for our programs. Follow the trail of dinosaurs from dig site to field laboratory and beyond. Work together to unearth dinosaur bones at the dig site. Examine a 70 million-year-old dinosaur embryo. Get up close and HEALTH AND THE HUMAN BODY personal with T. rex and over a dozen other full size dinosaurs throughout 10,000 square feet of soaring exhibit space, all in a SciLab hands-on environment. Scientists in 3rd grade and up get to work in a real laboratory. Use genuine lab tools and protocols to investigate chemical Follow The Blue Crab and biological phenomena. Follow the path of the blue crab in its life journey through the SciLab is presented by BD Diagnostic Systems . Learn about crab mating, molting, and anatomy. Stop by to meet our giant mechanical blue crab in its watery home. Cells: The Universe Inside Us

Walk through a giant maze to find out how proteinsare made. Zoom “Our students loved all of it. into a projected image of yourself to see brain, heart, and muscle cells. Participate in a special MSC version of Dance, Dance Revolution to find We could have easily stayed out how exercise helps your bones, brain, and heart. several more hours. For Your Body: The Inside Story some that hadn’t been there, Discover the extraordinarily cool (and sometimes gross) things your when they heard the words body does every day. Find out what’s happening inside as you digest ‘science center’ they thought food and exercise. Lie down on a bed of nails. Walk into a giant, it would be boring and were human heart. Squeeze a large intestine and hear some interesting digestive sounds. Test your balance, chart your reaction to stress, and pleasantly surprised. Favorites calculate your body’s health age. were the tornado booth and the dinosaur exhibit.” CORE EXHIBITS | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE EXHIBITS CORE 08 CORE EXHIBITS

EARLY CHILDHOOD PHYSICS AND PHENOMENA The Kids Room Demonstration Stage The Kids Room is a sensory adventure for our early childhood visitors, Science is an explosive, chilling, electrifying, bubbling experience

PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | CORE EXHIBITS from birth to eight years of age. Dive into water-play, where hand on the Maryland Science Center’s Demonstration Stage. Get in on pumps, fountains, dams, river channels, and nozzles keep hands the action with hands-on audience participation. Presentations are and minds in motion. Send a message racing across the room in a offered daily on a variety of topics. pneumatic tube or create a building to withstand our earthquake table. Our youngest visitors from birth-24 months of age can explore Room Newton’s Alley to Grow, a special sensory-rich zone where the pace and activity level Explore sight, sound, transfer of energy, magnetism, light, and is scaled appropriately to infant and toddler development. In the Kids simple machines in this hands-on physics exhibit. Pull yourself to Room, children can experiment with cause and effect relationships, the stars in a pulley chair, play beautiful music on a stringless laser discover the forces of gravity and magnetism, explore the natural world, harp, and learn about physical forces by competing in a giant lever and exercise their imaginations. tug-of-war.

The Kids Room is designed as a child-led discovery space. Adult Power Up—It’s Electrifying! chaperones must accompany and remain in the room with children From fuel to power generation to delivery—it takes a lot to make at all times. School groups are encouraged to divide into age groups as sure the light goes on when you throw that switch. Power Up looks follows, so that a safe and age appropriate experience takes place: birth at the people and power that make the electricity we use every day. to five years (Pre-K and K) and six to eight years (1st, 2nd, and 3rd You are the energy behind the human-powered generator and you grades). School Groups must have a reservation to visit the Kids Room. take on the role of city planner as you try to figure out the power Please note there is anadditional charge for this exhibit. See pg. 6. distribution grid to electrify a city without overloading the system. Capacity: 50 students | Time: 50 minutes Power Up is the Science Center’s first permanent bilingual, Spanish-English exhibit. 09 CORE EXHIBITS

Science & Main SPACE AND AEROSPACE SCIENCE Science meets Main Street at the intersection of hands-on learning. Davis Planetarium Explore how gears work at the bike shop. Learn about sound in Under the dome, the fully digital star theater turns daytime to night. the music store. Discover the properties of flight at the airport and Planetarium programs immerse audiences into the night and through lots more in this streetscape exhibit that will have you strolling an adventure in space. Program-related educational resources are through science. provided to teachers on the day of your visit. Planetarium programs for school groups are by advance reservation only. Programs are Science Aglow offered at 10:30, 11:30, and 1:30. Please note there is an additional Science Aglow introduces the electromagnetic spectrum, with an charge. See pg. 6. emphasis on visible light and its interactions with mirrors, motion, and time. Glimpse the illusion of infinity as light bounces back Life Beyond Earth and forth between mirrored surfaces. See your shadow like never Are we alone in the universe? Is there other life on distant planets before as it is temporarily captured on our glow-in-the-dark wall. or moons? Explore new discoveries of extreme life on Earth and how Make a work of “light” art by sculpting light with prisms and lenses. they suggest where life might exist on planets and moons in our Discover the concept of radiation as information, while exploring and solar system. Follow the hunt for planets outside our solar system, experimenting with optics and the physics of light. including Earth-like worlds. Special tactile components provide

accessibility to visitors with vision limitations, and Braille guides and The Shed large type guides are available for use in the exhibit. The informal activities in this gallery use the design process so visitors can learn new DIY skills or new applications for old ones. Science On a Sphere Hands-on encounters with tools and materials inspire interest in Science On a Sphere is a large visualization system that uses STEM and related careers as you engineer solutions to a physical computers and video projectors to display scientific images and challenge, construct circuits, or prototype gadgets that blend art and animations onto the outside of a sphere. The globe appears as if STEM. Creativity, innovation, and collaboration are all developed suspended in air and shows dynamic images of the atmosphere, through physical and digital projects. oceans, and land of a planet.

The Shed is presented by SpaceLink Chesapeake Employers Insurance Company Witness the latest and greatest in space science explorations and findings in SpaceLink, a multimedia update center. Try on a flight suit. Learn about the latest news from NASA, human space travel, and CORE EXHIBITS | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE EXHIBITS CORE planetary exploration. 10 ENRICHMENTENRICHMENT EXPERIENCESEXPERIENCES Enrichment Experiences are Sensory Mystery Stats Lab Grades: PreK-1 Grades: 6-8 small group, classroom-style Capacity: 30 students Capacity: 30 students programs designed to enhance Length: 45 minutes Length: 45 minutes Students will: Students will: our core exhibits by offering • Use senses to solve a mystery • Collect and analyze statistical in-depth content and more • Discover how the brain is data generated by toys and games connected to other parts of the • Calculate frequencies hands-on examples of body by nerves and probabilities learning by doing. • Experiment to see how eyes, • Compare predicted and Advance reservation is required. ears, skin, and noses function observed outcomes

Circuit Solutions Engineered by Design Soap Bubble Math Grades: 3-7 Grades: 3-8 Grades: 2-3

PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | ENRICHMENT EXPERIENXES Capacity: 30 students Capacity: 30 students Capacity: 30 students Length: 45 minutes Length: 45 minutes Length: 45 minutes Students will: Students will: Students will: • Assemble a working simple • Explore the engineering • Participate in a circuit design process (imagine, plan, mathematical problem-based • Test insulators and conductors create, test, improve) learning experience • Add switches to turn on electrical • Be challenged to follow the • Gather and share data components design process in order to design through group participation a solution for a given task • Design a question and “The hands on DNA Discovery procedure, guided by activities were Grades: 4-8 Radical Reactions standards, to determine Capacity: 30 students Grades: 1-2 measurable information great. All of my Length: 45 minutes Capacity: 30 students about soap bubbles students were fully Students will: Length: 45 minutes engaged with the Students will: • Observe and analyze their activities and they personal genetic traits • Use real science tools to absolutely loved • Translate genetic code into traits run experiments to make a unique creature • Learn the science behind the enrichment various chemical reactions activities in the 11 • Extract plant DNA to see what it looks like up close and in person • Explore simple chemistry classroom.” ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCES ENRICHMENTENRICHMENT EXPERIENCESEXPERIENCES

Sudsy Science Wind and Waves We want every group to have Grades: PreK-1 Grades: 2-5, 6-8 NEW Capacity: 30 students Capacity: 30 students THIS YEAR the best experience possible Length: 45 minutes Length: 45 minutes and recognize that the special Students will: Students will: needs of some student groups • Experiment with various • Determine what energy may require attendance in bubble wands and predict sources are derived from enrichment experiences bubble shapes renewable and non-renewable outside their grade level. • Combine materials to make a resources and how their use better bubble solution affects the environment • Create a model of an offshore Please ask the reservationist Synthetic Biology wind and wave energy farm for advice about suggested Grades: 9-12 to maximize energy output Capacity: 30 students then optimize your solution to accommodations. Length: 45 minutes tackle multiple challenges Students will: • Create an efficient, cost • Survey ways that humans alter effective design within a DNA to benefit themselves defined set of parameters • Explore the intersection of (grades 6-8) technology and society Ziplock Chemistry • Discuss ethical issues related Grades: 3-8 to engineered organisms Capacity: 30 students Length: 45 minutes Students will: • Conduct chemical reaction experiments inside plastic bags • Uncover how matter and energy are transformed ENRICHMENT EXPERIENCES | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE EXPERIENCES ENRICHMENT 12 ST.ST. JOHNJOHN PROPERTIESPROPERTIES IMAXIMAX THEATERTHEATER IMAX films offer an immersive, larger-than-life exploration of key topics directly related to our core programs.

A Beautiful Planet 3D Beavers Extreme Weather 3D Island of Lemurs: Madagascar Grades: 3-12 Grades: PreK–8 Grades: 3-12 Grades: K-12 Capacity: 330 NEW Capacity: 390 Capacity: 330 Capacity: 390 THIS YEAR Length: 45 minutes Length: 35 minutes Length: 40 minutes Length: 40 minutes *April-June • Trek through the Canadian • Explore the interconnected system • Travel to the remote and lush • Gaze down on the wonders Rockies with a family of of weather that causes tornadoes, land of Madagascar of Earth from the International beavers, one of nature’s greatest collapsing glaciers, and draught- • Lemurs arrived here millions of Space Station for a breathtaking engineers driven wildfires years ago as castaways and have view of the planet • Travel underwater and inside • Discover some of the ways the evolved into hundreds of various • Discover how humanity and a beaver lodge for a rare look at dynamic forces of weather are and beautiful forms natural powers have changed these industrious creatures shaping planet Earth • Follow the adventure of these

PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | ST. JOHN PROPERTIES IMAX the world • Watch them fell trees, • Follow researchers as they playful explorers, now highly • Explore life on the construct their lodge, evade the uncover information to help us endangered International Space Station, forest’s predators, and transform adapt to our ever-changing weather and how research done in space their environment Journey To Space 3D pushes the boundaries of Flight of the Butterflies 3D Grades: 3-12 human knowledge Dream Big 3D Grades: 2-12 Capacity: 330 Grades: 3-12 Capacity: 330 Length: 40 minutes Backyard Wilderness 3D Capacity: 330 Length: 45 minutes • Examine the challenges of sending Length: 40 minutes Grades: 1-12 • Follow the migration of the humans into deep space, including Capacity: 330 • See engineering in a new monarch butterfly from Mexico to a round-trip voyage to Mars brought Length: 45 minutes light, as an exciting, creative, Canada and a determined scientist’s to life on the IMAX screen • View close-up footage of heroic field decades-long search to find their • Learn about the important role of animals and discover a picture • Watch today’s young hidden overwintering sites the International Space Station of life in the woodlands around engineers as they create life- • Watch the amazing transformation Discover how NASA’s shuttle your home saving, world-altering marvels from pupa to adult monarch program has led to an exciting new to make the world safer, more era of space exploration • Follow the cycle of the seasons • See hundreds of millions of connected and more awe- as animals find food and raise migrating monarchs in the remote inspiring their young mountains of central Mexico • Be inspired to get out and • Inspire students of all

13 explore the world for all of the backgrounds to become the life that surrounds you innovators of the 21st century A BEAUTIFUL PLANET FROM STILL FILM

14 ST JOHN PROPERTIES IMAX | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 PLANETARIUMPLANETARIUM Digital Davis Planetarium programs immerse audiences into the night and through an adventure in space. Planetarium programs for school groups are by advance reservation only. Live Planetarium Seasons in the Sky Recorded Programs Grades: 5-7 Planetarium Capacity: 140 Programs Beyond Your Backyard Sky Length: 45 minutes Grades: 6-12 Black Holes: Journey into • Tour seasonal constellations Capacity: 140 the Unknown of the night sky Length: 45 minutes Grades: 5-12 • Explore reasons for • Explore the current sky and Capacity: 140 the seasons compare observations of stars Length: 35 minutes and planets • Learn how to use a starmap • Find out how a black hole for backyard stargazing is formed and where they can • Launch from a backyard be found view of the sky into space and Shapes in the Sky through the solar system and Grades: 1-2 • Discover what effect a black Milky Way galaxy Capacity: 140 hole can have on celestial

PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | PLANETARIUM Length: 35 minutes bodies in the universe • See how the stars and planets of the nighttime sky fit into the • Look for familiar shapes • Use a model to imagine what universe as a whole among the stars in the sky might happen if you got too • Imagine and create personal close to a black hole Exploring Planets star patterns Grades: 3-5 Cosmic Colors • Observe patterns of the Capacity: 140 Grades: 4-12 NEW THIS YEAR Length: 45 minutes motion of stars and the Moon Capacity: 140 Length: 35 minutes • Fly through the solar system The Sky Tonight • View the human eye up close • Explore the invisible side to investigate features of planets Grades: 3-5 and discover what structures of the electromagnetic and dwarf planets Capacity: 140 allow us to see the visible spectrum and see how different • Explore characteristics Length: 45 minutes light spectrum wavelengths can be used in of a planet • Observe current objects in everyday life • Discover the many reasons • Learn about current the night sky for color to find out why the space missions • Find and identify stars, sky is blue and why Mars is red planets, and phases of the Moon

15 • Learn how to use a starmap for backyard stargazing PLANETARIUM PLANETARIUMPLANETARIUM One World One Sky: Solar System Odyssey Observatory Big Bird’s Adventure Grades: 3-7 See the Sun Night Under the Stars Grades: PreK-2 Capacity: 140 Grades: 3-12 Grades: 3-12 Capacity: 140 Length: 35 minutes Capacity: 25 people Capacity: 25 people Length: 35 minutes • Go on a futuristic journey (includes students & chaperones) (includes students & chaperones) • Follow Sesame Street’s Big through the solar system Length: 45 minutes Length: 2 evening hours Bird and Elmo as they explore • Set out on a mission • Observe the Sun Contact Observatory Manager the night sky to discover a new home through safe solar filters for availability: 410-545-2985 or [email protected] • Meet Hu Hu Zhu, a Muppet to colonize to reveal sunspots, flares, from the Chinese co-production • View the Moon, planets, and • Learn what makes a world and prominences of Sesame Street stars according to the season an ideal habitat for life and • Learn the power of the Sun • Take an imaginary trip to the what it would take for humans as a star by exploring its many • Admission is $10.00 per Moon with Elmo and Hu Hu Zhu to live there wavelengths of light with person ($100 minimum) special attention to ultra- • Program depends on the Solar Superstorms violet (UV) light weather, so rain dates will Grades: 5-12 be arranged Capacity: 140 • Solar viewing as weather Length: 35 minutes permits—telescope views • Discover the inner workings of ground-based objects of the Sun substituted under cloudy conditions • Learn how changes in the magnetic fields that surround “Our students learned about space the Sun can result in solar flares and eruptions (the relationship between the • Understand how modern life sun, moon, and earth) prior to us technologies are vulnerable to coming to the science center—so it the power of the Sun was really exciting for them to

have more information as well as make connections to what they had learned about in class.”

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SciZone 1, 2, & 3 St. John Properties IMAX Theater Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

10:30am TEACHER’S CHOICE OF Flight Journey Circuit Solutions, DNA Discovery, Engineered Teacher’s Dream of the 11:30am to Space 10:30am Choice Big 3D Butterflies by Design, Radical Reactions, Sensory Mystery, 3D 3D 12:30pm Soap Bubble Math, Stats Lab, Sudsy Science, 1:30pm Wind and Waves, and Ziplock Chemistry Backyard Extreme Teacher’s Dream Wilderness Weather SciZone 4 11:30am Choice Big 3D 3D 3D Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic 10:30am Flight Biology Biology Biology Biology Journey Backyard Teacher’s of the to Space Wilderness 12:30pm Choice Butterflies Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic 3D 3D 11:30am 3D Biology Biology Biology Biology

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PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | DATES & TIMES Extreme Biology Biology Biology Biology Teacher’s of the Beavers Weather 1:30pm Choice Butterflies 3D Kids Room 3D Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Discovery Discovery Discovery Planetarium 10:30am Space Space Space Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri 11:30am Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Space Space Space Space 10:30am TEACHER’S CHOICE OF 12:30pm Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Space Space Space Space Beyond Your Backyard Sky, Black Holes: 11:30am Journey into the Unknown, Cosmic Colors, 1:30pm Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Space Space Space Space Exploring Planets, One World One Sky: Big (12:30pm not Bird’s Adventure, Seasons in the Sky, available Observatory Shapes in the Sky, The Sky Tonight, Solar Superstorms, Solar System Odyssey Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri 1:30pm 10:30am See the Sun See the Sun 17 11:30am See the Sun See the Sun DATES & TIMES DATESDATES && TIMESTIMES JANUARY-MARCH

SciZone 1, 2, & 3 St. John Properties IMAX Theater Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

10:30am TEACHER’S CHOICE OF Flight Teacher’s Journey to Dream of the Circuit Solutions, DNA Discovery, Engineered 10:30am 11:30am Choice Space 3D Big 3D Butterflies by Design, Radical Reactions, Sensory Mystery, 3D 12:30pm Soap Bubble Math, Stats Lab, Sudsy Science, Backyard Extreme 1:30pm Wind and Waves, and Ziplock Chemistry Teacher’s Dream Big 11:30am Wilderness Weather Choice 3D 3D 3D SciZone 4 Flight Journey Backyard Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Teacher’s of the 12:30pm to Space Wilderness Choice Butterflies Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic 3D 3D 10:30am 3D Biology Biology Biology Biology Flight Extreme Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Teacher’s of the 11:30am Beavers Weather Biology Biology Biology Biology 1:30pm Choice Butterflies 3D 3D Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic 12:30pm Biology Biology Biology Biology

Kids Room Planetarium Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Discovery Discovery Discovery 10:30am 10:30am Space Space Space TEACHER’S CHOICE OF Beyond Your Backyard Sky, Black Holes: 11:30am Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Space Space Space Space 11:30am Journey into the Unknown, Cosmic Colors, Exploring Planets, One World One Sky: Big 12:30pm Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Space Space Space Space (12:30pm Bird’s Adventure, Seasons in the Sky, not available Shapes in the Sky, The Sky Tonight, 1:30pm Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Space Space Space Space Solar Superstorms, Solar System Odyssey 1:30pm Observatory Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

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SciZone 1, 2, & 3 St. John Properties IMAX Theater Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Flight 10:30am TEACHER’S CHOICE OF Backyard Extreme Dream Big of the Circuit Solutions, DNA Discovery, Engineered by 10:30am Beavers Wilderness Weather 11:30am 3D Butterflies 3D 3D Design, Radical Reactions, Sensory Mystery, Soap 3D 12:30pm Bubble Math, Stats Lab, Sudsy Science, Wind and Backyard Extreme Waves, and Ziplock Chemistry Journey to Dream Big 1:30pm 11:30am Wilderness Beavers Weather Space 3D 3D 3D 3D SciZone 4 Flight Flight A Backyard Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri of the Dream Big of the 12:30pm Beautiful Wilderness Butterflies 3D Butterflies Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Planet 3D 3D 10:30am 3D 3D Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology Flight Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic A Extreme Extreme Dream Big of the 11:30am 1:30pm Beautiful Weather Weather Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology 3D Butterflies Planet 3D 3D 3D 3D Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic Synthetic 12:30pm PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5929 | DATES & TIMES Biology Biology Biology Biology Biology *Schedule changes during Spring Break, April 6-17. Please ask a reservationist for showtimes. Kids Room Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Planetarium HE Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery T 10:30am Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Space Space Space Space G 10:30am TEACHER’S CHOICE OF Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery 11:30am Beyond Your Backyard Sky, Black Holes: Journey into VELIN Space Space Space Space Space 11:30am the Unknown, Cosmic Colors, Exploring Planets, TRA CE (12:30pm Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery 12:30pm not One World One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure, Seasons in SCIEN Space Space Space Space Space available) the Sky, Shapes in the Sky, The Sky Tonight, Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery Discovery 1:30pm Solar Superstorms, Solar System Odyssey 1:30pm PROGRAM Space Space Space Space Space

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E Questions About the Traveling Science Program (TSP) TH Our Traveling Science Program (TSP) vans begin their educational journeys in Maryland and beyond for G the 2019-2020 school year starting October 1, 2019. VELIN How do I arrange for TSP to visit my school? TRA CE Bookings are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact the TSP Reservations Department at SCIEN 410.545.5968 or email [email protected]. A member of the TSP Reservations Department can answer questions, offer scheduling suggestions, review costs, and book the date you selected for TSP to visit PROGRAM your school. Can I bring TSP to my local library, community center, or other non-school setting? Yes, an additional program model is available for libraries, community centers, and non-school settings. Please contact the TSP Reservations Line at 410-545-5968 for more information. When can I phone the TSP Reservations Department? TRAVELING SCIENCE PROGRAM | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5968 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE PROGRAM SCIENCE TRAVELING Staff are available Monday through Friday from 2pm - 9pm. Certain months fill up quickly so phone early with your desired program, date, and time. 20 TRAVELINGTRAVELING SCIENCESCIENCE PROGRAMPROGRAM Assembly Programs Dinosaurs Mixing Up Science What’s the Matter? Grades: PreK–1 Grades: PreK-1 Grades: K-5 Capacity: 100 students Capacity: 100 students Capacity: 250 students Length: 30 minutes Length: 30 minutes Length: 50 minutes • Apply prior knowledge of self • Practice describing • Describe different and other animals to determine observations during states of matter with models how dinosaurs are different hands-on demonstrations and demonstrations • Observe similar patterns • Define properties of different • Observe properties of within dinosaurs and humans materials and relate them to different materials and and describe what all animals states of matter predict their use need to survive • Experience some surprising • Witness results of chemical • Discuss how parent dinosaurs chemical reactions reactions as substances PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5968 | TRAVELING SCIENCE PROGRAM combine and change were like their offspring and Science Unscripted unlike other dinosaurs and Grades: 1-5 other animals Capacity: 250 students Who Invented Electricity? Length: 50 minutes Grades: 3-8 Campfire Chemistry Let’s Science That Capacity: 250 students Grades: 6-8 Grades 2-5 • Compose a unique science Length: 50 minutes Capacity: 250 students Capacity 250 students show by selecting experiments Length: 50 minutes Length 50 minutes from our science topic cards • Determine the cause and effect relationships of electric • Explore a model of matter that Requires the ability to turn the • Partake in a range of overhead lights off for part of and magnetic interactions describes changes in particle demonstrations including liquid the program between objects motion, temperature, and state nitrogen, chemical mixing, and • Explore the process of with the addition of energy combustion reactions • Observe evidence that science through physical and electrical current can be • Identify the natural and chemical demonstrations transferred through synthetic materials that can be • Investigate light conductive material created from a simple wood fire reflection, absorption, • Experience the commonality • Witness the conservation and shadow making and global cooperation of of mass through multiple • Observe the formation American and world scientists combustive demonstrations of new substances through in observations and discoveries

chemical reactions of electromagnetic phenomena 21 TRAVELING SCIENCE PROGRAM TRAVELINGTRAVELING SCIENCESCIENCE PROGRAMPROGRAM Classroom Programs Starlab Programs Beyond Building Fairy Tale Engineering Solid, Liquid, Slime Seasonal Stars of Grades: 3-5 Grades: K-2 Grades: K-2 the Mid-Atlantic Capacity: 30 students Capacity: 30 students Capacity: 30 students Grades: 3-6 Length: 50 minutes Length: 50 minutes Length: 45 minutes Capacity: 30 students • Participate in three • Participate in three • Discuss the differences Length: 50 minutes engineering activities designed engineering activities inspired by between solids and liquids • Explore why constellations to engage in the engineering classic fairy tale stories • Prepare samples of appear at different times of design processes • Act as heroes of a story chemical slime the year • Engage in engineering skills by overcoming problems • Conduct an investigation on • Locate seasonal constellations beyond building, including using engineering slime’s state of matter and learn when they can be seen manipulating light with lenses • Be introduced to the • Discover the location of the and amplifying sound with engineering design process Moon, stars and planets in the different materials current night sky • Explore various real-world It’s Cool in Your School Grades: 6-12 Sunny Day, Starry Night careers that use engineering Capacity: 30 students Grades: K-2 to get the job done Capacity: 30 students Length: 50 minutes Length: 50 minutes Circuit Masters • Learn about the science Grades: 2-3, 4-6 of cryogenics using liquid • Learn the basics of astronomy Capacity: 30 students nitrogen • Identify what makes a Length: 50 minutes • Find out how different constellation • Explore the basics of electricity materials react to extreme cold • Observe constellations in the • Incorporate different types • Witness the relationship current night sky of switches between pressure, volume, • Test and compare insulators and temperature and conductors TRAVELING SCIENCE PROGRAM | PHONE A RESERVATIONIST AT 410.545.5968 AT RESERVATIONIST A | PHONE PROGRAM SCIENCE TRAVELING 22 TIEESS UUNNIITI OORRTT 00 OOPPPP //220022 1199 TheThe MarylandMaryland ScienceScience Center’sCenter’s 2200 FieldField TripTrip andand TravelingTraveling ScienceScience ProgramProgram GuideGuide

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