CKM OUTREACH DELIVERS THE SPIRIT OF OUR MUSEUM TO YOU!

With hands-on, interactive programs which meet or supplement elementary school objectives and provide educational fun.

Outreach programs adapt to any classroom sized space*, require 4 to 6 tables, and accomodate 25 students per presentation.

Prices :                                                            

$100 for set-up and 1 hour session/ $40 for each additional hour

Mini-Sampler: $75 set up/$25 add. hr.

Gym Sampler: $200 set up/ $50 add. hr.

StarLab Deluxe: $150 set up/ $45 add. hr.

Outreach is flexible, adaptable, and works to meet your needs and requests.

* StarLab requires 20'x20' floor space, a 11' ceiling, and a power outlet.

Curious Kids’ Museum! While you are enjoying the one in the building at 415 Lake Blvd., there’s an equal one traveling about in SW Michigan sharing discovery learning in YOUR area.

CKM offers exciting CLASSROOM workshops to schools in Southwest Michigan, in addition to some schools in outlying areas. Museum staff will set up six to eight stations in a classroom. After a brief introduction, the students will freely explore the hands-on activities for approximately 45 minutes. Each classroom topic includes a unique museum quality collection combined with hands-on activities and experiments. Every topic has a central question which can be answered with the information provided at all complementing stations. Reward your students for a job well done, or introduce a new unit.

 Save money and maximize your school, library, club, festival or church use of these unique fun learning tools by scheduling the whole school.

Special Needs or Requests? Outreach can adapt to your educational curriculum or theme and develop a specific hands-on wow activity or craft, if given advance notice when you schedule. Please call in advance and Outreach staff can work with you to accomplish your goals.

Last year was an outstanding year for the Museum’s Outreach Program. Curious Kids’ Museum gratefully sends a Thank You to all who made it possible for approximately 10,000 children to learn while having fun. A special Thank You to the Berrien Community Foundation for PALS program funding for Benton Harbor children.

PROGRAMS INCLUDE:

Paleo-students piece together the puzzles of dinosaurs. Date strata; dig fossils; build skeletons...add feathers? Contrast the idea slow, doomed monsters to new views of clever, colorful creatures. Line up species in order from great extinction that allowed room for their rise, to the catastrophes that buried them. Erupt a volcano, follow footprints, and meet their living neighbors.

 DRAWING -

NEW!

Step by step instruction to draw a super-hero-you. Create an alter ego comic book character and discover skills within yourself. This is an in-the-works program offered for a trial period introductory price of $75/$25.

This offers the best of everything and can include StarLab. 8 to 10 tables are needed, 6 with StarLab. Great for family nights and funraisers. Treat your school one grade at a time. Volunteers are requested.

Mix & match activities from our program selections to custom tailor your own sampler. Bubble Chamber and Face Paints optional.

Are mysterious magnets from space, made in the lab, or found in nature? Rediscover magnetite. Do they stick to more than refrigerators? Can you block their power? Do all parts of a magnet pull? Can they also push? How many things in our lives use magnets? How do they power our world and protect our planet from total extinction?

Our popular Bubble Chamber (inside), or Bubble Tub (outdoors), plus Face Paints, and a make & take craft with a related activity.

Traditional clothing, artifacts, foods, products, toys and musical instruments from Africa, Europe, Japan and original New Worlders. Authentic stuff, and some representitive. What is different about us, and what connects us as all related?

What makes a forest a rainforest? Compare rainfall and temps to those of deserts and polar regions. Count plants, insects, birds, reptiles and mammals. Handle authentic artifacts and hand-woven fabrics. Feel hardwoods, smell products, hear sounds. Connect food-chain links, which includes humans.

Does this make my work easier, or get more work done for me? Discover simple machines as common tools, toys and kitchenware- not for what they are, but how we use them. Meet the lever, ramp, wedge, pulleys and gears, and wheel & axle. Lift a classmate without effort. Win a tug of war against any two big kids. 

StarLab, a portable planetarium, presents the night sky, from the North Star and it's constellations of the Zodiac, as seen by ancient five ancient cultures.

Includes a slide showof NASA images, bridging myth with science. 25 persons fit inside for a 45-minute presentaion, or two groups of 25 for two twenty-some minute presentations.

StarLab Deluxe- Includes several tables of hands-on activities relating to stars, moon phases, seasons and planets.

Do more than talk about it! Prove air is here; measure it's speed and weight. We live in a bubble of air: wet, dry, hot or cold. Make a weather prediction map. Rediscover electricity through lightning. Follow the water cycle and the many shapes of H20. Name basic cloud formations. Weather creates climates; compare how we and animals adapt to all of them.

To find out more about the Curious Kids' Museum Outreach Program, please call and leave your name, organization and address with Curious Kids' Museum (269) 983-2543, for a complete information price list.

Curious Kids' Goes on the road!