NC Essentials Series
Programs that directly line up with your curriculum.
Mad Science NC Essentials Programs
$255 with take home • $195 without • 1-30 kids
5th: Body Works
Children explore the major body systems through hands-on experiments. They simulate digestion, see how lungs work, and study how blood moves through the circulatory system. Students identify the skeletal, muscular, nervous, and digestive systems, then create model single-celled organisms to understand basic life functions. Take Home Required
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5th: Exploring Ecosystems
Children discover the diversity of life within the animal kingdom and beyond. They experiment with camouflage, explore different ecosystems where plants and animals coexist, and learn how organisms function as producers, consumers, and decomposers. Take Home Required
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5th: Magnificent Motion
Find out what makes the world go around in an entertaining introduction to the basic concepts of forces. Sir Isaac Newton would be proud when young scientists investigate his law of inertia. Children experiment with timed launches and measured distance traveled. Children leave with a thirst for physics.
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5th: N.R.G.
In this class, children learn about the concepts of heat and heat transfer. The children will witness the practical side of heat-sensitivity while warming up their hands and a gravity defying candle lighting. Students observe melted and resolidified metal— a shift of states from solid to liquid right before their eyes— as well as effects and behavior of warm air and water.
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5th: What's the Matter
Students will be introduced to the water cycle and get to see evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation and runoff in action. They will create a chemical reaction to see how it affects the sum weight of the parts involved. Children put Newton's third law to the test, experiment with fun chemical reactions and more!
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5th: Wild Weather
Children get weather-wise in this climate-controlled class! A demonstration using air pressure helps students understand that air is made up of matter and children discover how air affects weather. Children try out tools that meteorologists use to measure weather and see how weather affects their environment. They discuss global weather patterns and see a jet stream model.
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4th: Earth Explorers
Children dig-in to Earth science! Earth’s layers are introduced with a spotlight on its outer rocky layer. They model the moving plates that cause bends and breaks in the Earth’s rock layer. Students will create a model volcano that erupts under the pressure they apply, and watch as the landscape is changed. They will see how their favorite beaches may change over time and how to protect them.
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4th: Magnetic Motion
This class reveals the science behind magnet magic and magnetism mysteries. Children learn how and why magnets behave in such ways. They learn how to create magnets and how magnetism is lost. Children discover an electric charge’s basic properties, learn to distinguish between static electricity and electrical current, and explore the science behind these phenomena.
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4th: Moon Madness
This workshop provides students with an opportunity to experiment with eclipses and learn just how far away our moon is. They will experiment to see both how the earth turns, causing day and night, and how the moon moves in relation to the earth. Hands-on activities encourage students to interact with the concepts presented.
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4th: Nutrition Mission
This class focuses on nutrition and fitness including the essential components of a healthy diet and lifestyle. Children learn how plants produce their own food, and see how animals must consume plants or other animals to meet their needs. The program increases knowledge, stimulates motivation, and encourages healthy attitudes toward personal health, nutrition, and fitness.
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3rd: It's Alive!
Students explore major human body systems—skeletal, muscular, nervous, and digestive—through hands-on experiments. They test how bones and joints move, see how lungs function, learn why skin protects us, and create a take-home Mad Science® Robot Hand.
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3rd: Plants & Photosynthesis
We’re going green! Learn about how a plant uses sunlight to create food, find out why plants are green, and discover the life cycle of a plant. Learn about soil when you build and keep your own plant that will photosynthesize and grow right at home.
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3rd: States that Matter
Using water as an example, they will learn how, why, and in which progression matter usually transforms from one state to another. Students learn and observe the basic properties of heat by play-acting the role of atoms, as well as observing the effects and behavior of warm air and water. They will also see a lesser known phenomenon called “sublimation,” whereby a solid turns directly into a gas!
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2nd: Cycle of Life
Students look at the life cycles of humans, butterflies, and other animals to see the similarities in stages. By exploring different animals, students will see how many stages can look alike, or very different, depending on the animal!
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2nd: Matter Matters
This workshop provides students with an opportunity to explore matter and transformations between solids and liquids. They will experiment to see things can be done to materials to change some of their properties, but not all materials respond the same way to what is done to them. They will measure and compare the weight of water poured into different containers and more.
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2nd: Super Sounds
Students will explore the relationship between sound and objects of the body that vibrate – eardrum and vocal cords! They will learn how sound travels, and then experiment in sound stations and transform their voices with our Mad Science voice modulator!
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1st: Astonishing Astronomy
In this class, children recreate a solar and lunar eclipse, work out the relative size and distance of the Earth and its moon, and learn why the moon can appear different at different times. Students will also learn to tell the difference between objects when the children explore the phenomenal events that take place in the night sky.
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1st: Forces, Balance, and Motion
This workshop provides students with an opportunity to explore force using materials of different sizes, shapes, and properties. They will use magnets to change the direction and speed of objects to reach a desired destination! They will work to balance items based on positions and weights of the materials. Hands on activities encourage students to interact with the concepts presented.
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1st: In Solid with Earth
This 1st Grade Workshop compares the properties of soil samples from different places and explores the physical properties of earth materials, including rocks and minerals. Children will erupt a volcano, study cool rock samples and get the dirt on...dirt!
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1st: Plants and Animals
Students explore living things! Learn about how a plant uses sunlight to create food, and see how air, water, and other nutrients contribute to an animal’s growth. Examine the visible wave spectrum of different light sources to see why sunlight is best. Test for starch to see how plants provide energy for themselves and us!Act out a food web!
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K: Amazing Animals
In this class, children learn that animals of the same type still have individual differences. They will look at how multiple parts come together to make a whole in both living and non-living things. Students also see how the human body is similar to other animals, and how all animals develop over time. They will identify the needs of living organisms that set them apart from non-living things.
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K: Proper Properties
Kindergartners will understand how objects are described based on their physical properties and how they are used in this workshop. Students will explore a variety of items and their uses based on properties! They will test which materials are the best for building, observe objects up close, and use their noodles in a great sorting challenge!
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K: Wacky Weather
Kindergartners will understand change and the observable patterns of weather that occur from day to day and throughout the year. in this workshop. Children learn about clouds, precipitation and even make it "snow" in the classroom!
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