Spring Break Science
Fill your days with science fun!
Get an activity guide with exploration ideas for at home and at the museum.
Drop in to see movies and discover themed activities and explorations.
Discover:
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Monday: Whale Adaptations
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Tuesday: Sun Science
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Wednesday: Aurora
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Thursday: Dinos & Fossils
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Friday: Moose
Included with museum admission.
Museum members get in free!
Presented with funding from Neal Brown Museum Education Support Fund.
Links for at home explorations:
Whales
- Make Arctic Food Chain nesting creatures.
- Discover baleen whales and play a Whale and Krill Tower Game.
- Make a Model Umiak.
Sun Science
- Discover our solar system, starting with the Sun, on the .
- Build a Model Solar Probe and discover more about the .
- Find dozens of Sun Activities on our Virtual Museum.
Aurora
- Follow the and watch the All Sky Live Cameras. Go outside and watch if conditions are right!
- Watch to hear how some of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples describe the aurora.
- Paint the Aurora with Ice Cubes. Find more activities on the Virtual Museum!
Dinos & Fossils
- Watch to see UAMN paleontologists excavate an ancient marine reptile.
- Make your own with clay.
- Create Ice Age Puppets and stage a prehistoric puppet show!
Moose
- Create Alaska State Symbols including our state mammal, the moose, for a shadow play.
- Watch the episode of Molly of Denali from PBS.
- Join us for Family Day: Moose on March 22 from noon-4pm at the museum!