Beginning this Friday, June 19, we’re taking the next step in gradually welcoming visitors back to the Discovery Center by providing outdoor hands-on activity stations on our grounds. Learn more here!

This week, our Distance Learning offerings are focusing on different aspects of flight. Join one of our museum educators as she reads Planes Fly! by George Ella Lyon, with illustrations by Mick Wiggins!

Today’s upcoming SpaceX Dragon-2 rocket launch is momentous for two reasons: it’s the first time NASA has ever launched astronauts into orbit on a private spacecraft, and this is the first launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in nearly a decade.

In the spirit of anticipation and ground-breaking, join one of our museum educators as she reads Go for the Moon: A Rocket, A Boy, and The First Moon Landing, by Chris Gall!

This week’s Distance Learning offerings are focusing on optics, light, and the electromagnetic spectrum.

Join one of our museum educators as she reads the Scholastic children’s book COLOR, by Kay Manolis!

This week’s Distance Learning theme is optics, light, and the electromagnetic spectrum. Today we show you how to split sunlight into all the beautiful colors of the spectrum, with a simple homemade spectroscope! This activity takes just a few minutes, and utilizes common household items. Adult supervision is required—we’ll be cutting cardboard with a craft knife.

As we look at the evolution and importance of plants this week, let’s focus on some flowering plants that took an interesting step back into the water. Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) includes aquatic grasses- these are plants that grow almost completely in water (one genus produces flowers above the water- the rest have underwater flowers pollinated by water movement!) even though ancestral flowering plants evolved on land.