Science

Maritime Gloucester and Cape Ann Art Haven team up to invite kids ages 6-10 to a vacation week session where they will learn about science through making art - part of a week full of educational sessions during April vacation! Check in at Cape Ann Art Haven (180B Main Street, Gloucester) and we will go together to Maritime Gloucester for a sea adventure. After lunch we will make our own sea creatures at Art Haven.

Maritime Gloucester invites kids in pre-k through first grade to a vacation week session about crustaceans and hermit crabs - part of a week full of educational sessions during April vacation! Did you know that hermit crabs decorate their shells?  

Maritime Gloucester invites kids in grades 2-5 to a vacation week session about coral and crystals - part of a week full of educational sessions during April vacation! Is a coral a plant or an animal?  How does it grow? 

Robotics programs and teams from all over the Seacoast will converge on the Children's Museum of New Hampshire for an afternoon of fun with robots. See local FIRST LEGO League, FIRST Tech Challenge and FIRST Robotics Competition robots in action along with SeaPerch underwater remote operated vehicles. Robotics programs like these offer an exciting blend of tech education and innovation. If you've never seen these student-built robots before, now is your big chance to check it out.

NOTE: Due to the events of the massive manhunt in the Cambridge Area and shooting of an MIT police office over the past few days, all events and activities for the Cambridge Science Festival have bee postponed for Friday April, 19 and Saturday April 20, 2013!

The Cambridge Science Festival is the first of its kind in the United States. It is a fun and enagaging celebration showcasing  the leading edge in science, technology, engineering, and math in our region. The Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun with hundreds of events taking place in and around Cambridge, MA each spring.  For ten days, Cambridge will come alive with science and offer exhibits, activities, fairs, demonstrations, lectures, debates, concerts, plays, workshops and all kinds of interactive events for kids, families and curious individuals!

Come to Joppa Flats after school to learn about song birds! Our afternoon starts off with self-guided activities, challenges, or puzzles that lead us to our topic for the day. As a group, we'll observe, investigate, and compare wildlife, their adaptations, and the changes that they undergo each season. Participants may play the role of a zoologist, a naturalist, or even an Arctic explorer throughout this series. Each experience will leave your young scientist eager for the next session.

Tucked away on the roof of the Museum's parking garage, the Gilliland Observatory is a wonderful resource for our starry-eyed public. Equipped with a computer-controlled, Celestron CGE 1100 Schmidt Cassegrain telescope and staffed by knowledgeable Museum employees, this is the perfect place to end a Friday evening at the Museum.

Maritime Gloucester invites kids in grades 2-5 to a vacation week session about the sea life in Gloucester Harbor - part of a week full of educational sessions during April vacation! What kinds of marine life can be found around Maritime Gloucester’s main pier?  In our digital microscope lab, we’ll get an up-close view of the tiny live plankton found right outside our doors.

Our afternoon starts off with self-guided activities, challenges, or puzzles that lead us to our topic for the day. As a group, we'll observe, investigate, and compare wildlife, their adaptations, and the changes that they undergo each season. Participants may play the role of a zoologist, a naturalist, or even an Arctic explorer throughout this series. Each experience will leave your young scientist eager for the next session.

Our afternoon starts off with self-guided activities, challenges, or puzzles that lead us to our topic for the day. As a group, we'll observe, investigate, and compare wildlife, their adaptations, and the changes that they undergo each season. Participants may play the role of a zoologist, a naturalist, or even an Arctic explorer throughout this series. Each experience will leave your young scientist eager for the next session.