Wonder Workshops
Let the Denver Museum of Nature & Science come to you!
Our magnificent educators will transform your classroom and take your adventurers on an unforgettable journey. These programs will fuel your students’ passion and curiosity for nature and science – challenging them to experiment, play and work together to learn about the world around them. Our programs are equipped with everything from interactive challenges to hands-on collections items from the Museum’s own archives.
Price: $270 for three sessions in the same room, additional $40 for four sessions on the same day.
All programs are available in English and Spanish and can be adapted to your students’ language needs.
Please note that all bookings must be made at least 21 days in advance of their scheduled date.
Classroom Logistics:
Please review all guidelines before booking these programs.
We require a space that comfortably accommodates students, educators and our educational materials. A minimum of at least 27' x 27' of space is needed for this experience. Alternatively, programs can be taught in larger spaces such as gyms or libraries.
Ensuring your room is empty of students and barriers can prevent delays when setting up the program.
We will bring materials in a large, rolling cart (48" x 28" x 40"); ramps/elevators must be available for access if the room is not on the main floor.
Wild Senses
We will transform your space into a natural wonderland ready to be explored. Young learners take on animal behaviors to experience the natural world around them, as animals would. Kids will smell out their food like a squirrel, hunt in the dark like a raccoon, move fast as lightning like a snake and use their sensitive touch senses to find trapped insects like spiders! Our knowledgeable educators will guide your explorers as they discover the adaptations and senses that animals rely on to survive. This program will amaze and delight your animals – er, kids – through playful discovery and museum-grade education.
Ages: 4-7
View the Learning Standards.
Mission to Mars
With advances in space exploration comes the search for astronauts with critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration skills to crew these future mission. This action-packed lesson simulates real-world challenges that NASA has and will face when exploring the surface of Mars. Students will have to use their problem solving and communication skills to complete these challenges, while exploring Mars’ history and geology – Marsology? – with items from the museum’s own education collections!
Grades: 3-6
View the associated Learning Standards.
Body Systems in Motion
Get your students’ hearts pumping in this high energy program filled with physical challenges, while your students learn about the systems in their bodies that make movement possible! Students will travel through the circulatory system as blood cells carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide, race to send coded messages to extremities through the spinal cord and work together as muscle pairs to carry out a motor function.
Grades: 4-8
View the Learning Standards.