Programs Wish List

The Stillwater Children's Museum is in the process of organizing additional exhibits for our "Museum Without Walls". These exhibits will travel around providing discovery lessons for area schools, child care facilities, educational and other events. We need partners to help us with this critically important phase of the museum. If you have an educational/discovery exhibit that you would like to share or if your organization is interested in sponsoring such an exhibit, please contact us at 405-533-3333 or by email at info@stillwaterchildrensmuseum.org.

We are also seeking enthusiastic volunteers to serve on the Museum Without Walls programming committee. If you are interested, please contact us at 405-533-3333.

Future Museum Without Walls Programming currently under consideration include, but is not limited to the following:

Science of Sound:

Description:: What is music? What is sound? How has sound been recorded over the years? Why do they always tell me to “turn it down”? Science of Sound provides a hands-on opportunity for exploration of these seemingly simple questions.

Mechanism: A moving, shaking, noise making vehicular machine delivers this adventure along with cool manipulatives and professional sound specialists to lead the way. Participants are engaged by a “tripped out” sound system, which naturally fosters further curiosity. Students are exposed to the science process as they classify and experiment with the history of recorded sound by seeing, touching, listening to, and comparing the sound quality of live instruments versus record players, eight track tapes, cassette tapes, compact disks, and an I-Pod. A giant ear model gives a close up interactive view of how sound is received by the human body, and what elements of sound can be damaging or harmful to the structure of the ear. Students complete their “hearing” journey as they test their own ears in a fun game to identify sounds.

Target Audience: Science of Sound curriculum is suitable for pre-kindergarten to eighth grade students.

Crime Scene Investigation:

Description: Crime Scene Investigation puts a real life spin on classic fairytales encouraging learners to question, seek further information, and look beyond the obvious to solve a mystery.

Mechanism: Are you sure Goldilocks acted independently when breaking and entering into the three bear’s residence? Was weather an instigating factor in the destruction of the Three Little Pigs’ homes? Students use science and technology, imagination, hands-on investigation tools, and logic to uncover an alternative ending to these classic fairytales. Younger students learn about fingerprints and use simple detective tools to find clues at the scene of the crime staged in their very own classroom. Older students are taught the fundamentals of DNA and participate in hands-on investigation to actually “roll” banana DNA onto a toothpick and use microscopes to compare hair specimens found at the scene of the crime.

Target Audience: Crime Scene Investigation will be developed in two levels of programming to encompass the learning needs of pre-kindergarten to first grade students, and second grade to fifth grade students.

Team Up! Explore Science & Sports:

Description: Team Up! Explore Science and Sports examines the science of sports through 15 interactive components. Visitors can test their own skills in sports such as basketball, tennis, soccer, and football while learning about math and physics.

In this exhibition, visitors are invited to do such things as: Discover their pitching speed in a radar-equipped booth; Experiment with balance using pommel-horse and balance beam interactives; Make a perfect bounce pass to a "teammate" located on the other side of a Barrier; and Shoot a marble-sized basketball through a tiny hoop while learning about trajectory angles.

For a complete list of exhibit descriptions, please click here.

Too Small to See:

Description: Too Small to See is a five-thousand square foot interactive exhibition that zooms into the world of nanotechnology providing a fun, interactive experience for visitors of all ages. Developed by Cornell University and supported by the National Science Foundation. Too Small to See opened at Innoventions at Epcot® in November, 2006. Too Small to See was designed and built to surround visitors with things at the atomic scale and expose them to some important concepts in nanotechnology. The exhibit components are interactive and give visitors a chance to experience technology at the nanometer scale and learn how their lives will be affected by the products of nanotechnology. Too Small to See has something for everyone, whether it is zooming in on the latest in computer technology, building a molecule or moving an atom. Stories about the exciting discoveries in nanotechnology are provided through our partnership with Earth & Sky. Too Small to See will travel around the United States hosted by a variety of science museums and other venues.

For more information about this exhibit, please click here.