Workshops

Available on-site and off-site at your school.

Groups may choose one of the following workshops to complement their visit to
Stepping Stones. Each workshop is fun, interactive and aligned with state and national curriculum standards. One class per workshop.

Programs for Preschoolers

 

Workshops

Science Says

Introduce science through stories! Hear a story and explore the science concepts it presents through fun experiments, artwork and interactive games.

Choose from the following topics:

Ages 3 and 4

  • Butterflies
  • Color Mixing
  • Magnets
  • Our Senses

Ages 3 – 5

  • Rainforest Animals
  • Fun Foods

 

Storybook Theater

Put on a play with your students! This interactive workshop features storytelling and acting. Children bring a familiar tale to life using costumes and props to become the characters in the story.

Choose from the following stories:

Ages 4 and 5

  • Billy Goats Gruff
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears
  • The Three Little Pigs

 

Travel Trunks

Rainforest Animals

Bring the wonders of rainforst animals to your students. Experience the lives of rainforest animals and understand the concepts of camouflage, animal adaptations, animals' needs, classification and distribution.

Programs for Grades K – 4

 

Build It!

Nature by Design

Grades 1 – 4

How do trees stand up? Investigate how trees use strength and stability to withstand the forces of nature. In the final challenge, design a structure that an animal would build to help them survive.

Put It Together

Grades 1 – 4

Structures need to withstand the power of forces. Have fun striking poses as you experience compression and tension in the body. Investigate shapes and materials as you build structures to test what stands up best.

 

Literacy

Storybook Theater

Grades K and 1

Put on a play with your students! This interactive workshop features storytelling and acting. Children bring a familiar tale to life using costumes and props to become the characters in the story. Choose from the following stories:

  • Billy Goats Gruff
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • The Tortoise and the Hare
  • Stone Soup
 
Healthyville

Food Groups

Grades K – 2

Food gives our bodies the energy to be active and grow strong. Investigate how nutrients keep the body healthy. Learn about serving sizes and practice sorting and classifying meals into the basic food groups.

Body Basics

Grades K – 4

Explore how different parts of the body work together to keep us healthy and learn how to keep them fit and safe. Investigate the skeletal and muscle systems through art and movement activities.

Consumer's Choice

Grades 3 and 4

Become food-label detectives as you search for healthy and not-so-healthy ingredients in common foods. Have fun learning about protion size, recommended dail allowances and the mysterious vocabular found on food labels.

 

Plants and Animals

Rainforest Layers

Grades K – 4

Explore the layers of the rainforest and investigate the amazing and diverse array of wildlife that inhabits them. Includes an up close look at live hissing cockroaches!

Animal Classification*

Grades 1 – 4

Investigate reptiles, birds, amphibians, mammals and insects through interactive games and activities.

Animal Adaptations*

Grades 1 – 4

Discover the remarkable characteristics that help animals survive in their environment. Students will create an animal, complete with adaptations unique to its habitat.

From Seed to Plant

Grades K – 2

Explore the life cycle and importance of plants through role-play and scientific investigation. Dissect a seed, identify its parts and explore how plants meet their basic needs.

Plant Identification

Grades 3 and 4

Become a botanist as you investigate and identify rainforest plants using a dichotomous key. Discover the many ways that people use plants in their everyday lives.

* Can be modified to be rainforest specific. Please indicate when registering.

 

Weather

The Water Cycle

Grades 1 – 4

Discover the essential role that water plays in our lives. Students explore the steps in the water cycle, experiment with evaporation and condensation and learn how water affects the world in which we live.

Weather Wise

Grades 1 – 3

Become meteorologists and measure weather using authentic scientific tools. Create a weather instrument and investigate different elements of weather, including temperature, pressure and water.