Little Al's Lab
Grades: K-4th
Little Al's Lab located right here at the National Atomic
Museum! Students can become scientists by trying out cool puzzles
and brainteasers, and by tackling fun challenges. Allow 30 min.
Content Standards: Science and Math
A Taste of Science
Grades: 4th – 6th
Challenge students’ minds through presentations about
space science, the magic of magnets, and radiation in the world
around them. Students will also be WOWed with the "Marshmallow
Man." This special educational program can also be
brought to your classroom, for a fee of $3.50 per student.
Allow 60 min.
Content Standards: Science and History
Atoms & Isotopes
Grades: 6th – 8th
Students will participate in hands-on activities as they learn about
the building block of all matter and its parts. They will leave
with an understanding of elements, and how they can be regarded
as a family. This program will introduce students to the Periodic
Chart of the Elements.
Allow 60 min.
Content Standards: Science and Language Arts
Power Up!
Grades: 6th – 12th
Students will participate in hands-on physics activities.
They will leave with an understanding of the production of electricity
from nuclear power reactors and the increasing need for electrical
energy. This program complements the Museum’s new exhibit
on the generation of nuclear power.
Allow 60 min.
Content Standards: Science and Technology
 Manhattan
Project – Secrets and Spies
Grades: 5th – 8th
Secrecy, espionage, science — all proved crucial
in the race for the atomic bomb. How did secrecy and science go
together? How did spies infiltrate the United States’ most
closely guarded wartime secret? Consider the answers to these questions
and more through a tour of exhibits, a play, and discussion of the
secrecy and espionage that took place during the Manhattan Project.
Allow 60 min.
Content Standards: Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts
Manhattan Project – Super Critical
Grades: 9th – 12th
Explore the challenges of nuclear fission by considering
the elements uranium and plutonium, the first human-engineered chain
reaction, and the ultimate creation of atomic bombs. Participants
will learn how Manhattan Project scientists were able to harness
nuclear energy, forever changing war and the world. A tour of the
Museum’s Manhattan Project exhibit is included.
Allow 60 min.
Content Standards: Science and Social Studies
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