Meet Rat Team SMV and learn about operant and classical conditioning as you watch two rats play basketball – no we aren’t kidding.
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Camp In
Camp In features tons of special hands-on activities. Try your hand at designing and building structures and testing their strength. Do you have a future in architecture or building? Find out. Watch a giant-screen film in the IMAX®DOME, enjoy a Carpenter Science Theatre Company storytelling performance, explore the exhibits and much more!
Live Science
Daily presentations bring science to life! Join us as we freeze a penny with liquid nitrogen, dissect a cow eye and coach our rat basketball teams to victory!
How do solids, liquids, and gases react to extremely cold temperatures? What is Absolute Zero? Watch wide-eyed as liquid nitrogen boils water and makes a tea kettle whistle. Observe as elements change phases right in front of you and learn how liquid nitrogen treats tumors in cryogenic surgery.
Chemistry is at its coolest when it's put to action! Witness four different types of chemical reactions. See colorful flames, a foam fountain, and a rainbow in a tube! Learn the difference between exothermic and endothermic reactions and watch as a colorless liquid solution changes to blue once shaken.
Let anatomy amaze you. Observe as an educator dissects a cow eye while explaining its different parts and functions. Can cows see color? Do our eyes change over time? Learn about the eye-brain system by comparing the difference between human eyes and cow eyes.
Animated images of atmospheric storms, climate change and ocean temperature are shown on the sphere, illuminating sometimes complex environmental processes in a captivating way.