Exploratorium - Even if you don't live in San Francisco!

If you don't live in San Francisco, you probably can't accept Exploratorium's invitation to take your students there on a fabulous field trip. But oh, can you find things to do, make, listen to, and watch on their awesome website!

Below are just a few of the 528 things to make, see, and do:

• Blue Sky - why the sky is blue and the sunset is red
• Color Chromatography - the colors in "black" ink 

http://www.exploratorium.edu/afterschool/activities/images/nav/color-on.gif

• Ice Balloons - density, changes of state, etc. 
• Modeling the Seasons - refer to the blog posts on "A Private Universe!"
• Peter's Savage Garden - carnivorous plants in action with California Carnivores' owner

http://www.californiacarnivores.com/Images/CC_Peter_N_Truncata.jpg

• Slinky in Hand - transverse and longitudinal waves

And oh, my goodness, explo.tv! How do 1030 webcasts, videos, podcasts, and slide shows sound?
With registration, you can download videos so that you don't have to wait for buffering when showing them to your students. Here's one I downloaded from Ice Stories Polar Media Collection, "Traverse Across Frozen McMurdo Sound":

So, don't wait - hurry to the Exploratorium site and see what's in store for you and your kiddos!