Featured Exhibits and Films


Whitaker Center is designed to provide your students with a powerful learning experience—an educational approach that presents the same science concepts in many different ways, including interactive exhibits, large-format films, inquiry-based lab activities, and science theatre presentations.


The science of creatures gross and disgusting...





Exhibit
Animal Grossology
January 19–April 27, 2008
Invite your students to get a different view of the animal kingdom through a visit to Animal Grossology. Based on the bestselling children’s book by Sylvia Branzei, this impolite but educational exhibit mixes hands-on fun, facts and kid-friendly humor to teach important biology concepts and healthy living habits. Students will discover some of the stinkiest, slimiest and most disgusting creatures on Earth, as well as each animal’s importance in the food chain. Students will peer into the belly of a cow to discover why it has four stomachs, expels methane gas, and generates 53 gallons of saliva per day. They’ll pump “blood” into a mosquito and study its unique blood-sucking adaptations, uncover why making slime is important for some creatures, and find out how scarab beetles help prevent the spread of disease by burying animal dung.






Click here to download Animal Grossology pre- and post-visit classroom activities. Special admission fees apply (click here or ask the School Reservations Associate for more details.) To further engage your students, click here to check out our related Discovery Lab offerings Predators Aloft and Operation Outbreak.
 

Film


Grand Canyon
Adventure 3D

Opens March 22, 2008
Water—it’s the most important story of this century. As Earth’s population expands, our planet’s finite fresh water supply grows more and more scarce. Scientists say a crisis is looming. What can be done?



One of the world’s mightiest rivers, the Colorado, no longer reaches the sea. Every drop of river water is allocated to agriculture and populations along the way, many of whom don’t even realize their connection to the river. No water remains for the river’s end—the Colorado Delta—once a thriving estuary that supported the most diverse biosphere in North America. Join two fathers, their 18-year-old daughters, and their guide on a journey down river to explore the challenges that we face and the many opportunities that exist for conserving and restoring our watersheds.

Admission to The Science of Aliens and Animal Grossology exhibitions is offered only in combination with a visit to Harsco Science Center. Click here for pricing information.

 

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