Category: 3rd Grade

Cub Scout Bear – Forensics – Workshop

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Overview

Everywhere you go, you leave behind clues: fingerprints on your juice glass, DNA on your toothbrush, bits of fabric on your favorite chair, and footprints in your yard. Criminals leave behind clues, too. Forensic scientists study those clues to help law enforcement officers solve crimes.

Forensics is all about using science to answer questions about crimes (and other things that have happened). In this Adventure, you will practice some of the skills of a forensic scientist.

You will analyze a fingerprint, a footprint, the contents of ink, and some mysterious white powder. Grab your magnifying glass and start detecting!

1. Explore the term “forensics” and how it is used to help solve crimes.
2. Analyze your fingerprints.
3. Make a shoe imprint.
4. Do an analysis of four different substances: salt, sugar, baking soda and cornstarch.
5. Learn about chromatography and how it is used in solving crimes.
6. Find out how officers collect evidence.

as noted on Cub Scout Website

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Price*: $18 per participant/student
  • Location: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Cub Scout Workshops

Cub Scout Lion

Cub Scout Tiger

Cub Scout Bear

Cub Scout Wolf

Cub Scout Webelos

  • Earth Rocks! (Coming soon)

Arrow of Light

Onsite Program Registration Form

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Girl Scout Brownie – Home Scientist – Workshop

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Overview

Find out where science is hiding in your home.

1. Be a kitchen chemist
2. Create static electricity
3. Dive into density
4. Make something bubble up
5. Play with science

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll be able to see the science all around you.

as noted on Girl Scout Website

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Price*: $18 per participant/student
  • Location: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Girl Scout Workshops

Girl Scout Daisies

Girl Scout Brownies

Girl Scout Juniors

Girl Scout Cadettes

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How To Museum – Mobile Museum

Overview

Are you looking for a way to prepare your group for a museum trip Look no further! How to Museum will review what a museum is, prepare your learners for what to expect, and what’s expected of them. Help your learners love museums today!

Possible Activities (at the educator’s discretion)

  • Get to know your staff member
  • what is a museum
  • what your students and staff can expect
  • expectations when visiting
  • live animals – vs – taxidermy – vs – study skin – vs – model
  • exhibit vs gallery
  • review of our space
  • our organizations history

Standards

n/a

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: up to 1 hour
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students: 30 per session at your school/organization
  • Intended Grade Level: all ages
  • Price: $150 for one program; $140 for two programs; $125 for three or more programs.
    For destinations more than 25 miles away from the museum one-way, an additional cost will be incurred.
  • Location: at your site
Register for a Mobile Museum Outreach Program
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

Amazing Animal Adaptations – Mobile Museum

Overview

Venom, claws, and stripes…Oh my! Explore these incredible animal adaptations with our live animals and amazing specimens from around the world.

Possible Activities (at the educators discretion)

  • Define Adaptation
  • touchables to reinforce what adaptations are
  • Read, “The Mixed Up Chameleon”
  • Camouflage Quilt activity

Standards

NGSS: K-LS1-1

Details

  • Live Animals: Yes
  • Duration: 1 hour
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students: 30 per session at your school/organization
  • Intended Grade Level: PreK-5
  • Location: at your site
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

Dinos, Dinos, Dinos – Mobile Museum

Overview

Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes. Explore real fossils, see different tools, and learn what makes a dinosaur.

Possible Activities (at the educators discretion)

  • Reading a dinosaur themed book
  • explore a paleontologist’s backpack
  • investigate the length/size of various dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures
  • how fossils are created
  • fossil touchables
  • fossil making

Standards

n/a

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: up to 1 hour
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students: 30 per session at your school/organization
  • Intended Grade Level: PreK-5
  • Location: at your site
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

2026 Tatnall Earth Day Event

Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 10 a.m.-Noon

DelMNS partners with The Tatnall School for an annual event where Tatnall middle school students prepare exhibits and activities to educate local elementary school students about our changing Earth. Previous topics have included: Water use and accessibility, ocean health and pollution, biomimicry, species extinction, climate change, and many more.

Join us Wednesday, April 26, 2026 from 10 a.m.-Noon.

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Delaware & Beyond: Discovery Tour

Overview

We’ll take you on a guided tour of the museum’s new galleries, featuring a variety of ecosystems near and far. Experience hands-on science, interactive exhibits, up-close encounters with live animals, and a visit to the PaleoZone featuring Cretaceous creatures, including dinosaurs.

Stations

  • Two stops in the Regional Journey Gallery
  • 2 stops in the Global Journey Gallery
  • Connecting them all through the concept of cycles

Standards

n/a

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 1.5 hours
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
  • Intended Grade Level: All ages
  • Price*: $10 per participant/student
  • Location: at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

Self-Guided: Discovery Tour

Overview

Explore the museum without a tour guide/Museum Educator, and check out the exhibits at your own pace.

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
  • Intended Grade Level: All ages
  • Price*: $10 per participant/student
  • Location: at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

SENSE-ational Animals Discovery Tour

Overview

Animals have the same five senses as humans. Compare and contrast our senses to those of animals around the world with special adaptations.

Stations

  • Sight
  • Hearing
  • Smell
  • Touch
  • Taste

Standards

Details

  • Live Animals: Yes
  • Duration: 1.5 hours
  • Minimum number of students: 15
  • Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
  • Intended Grade Level: K-4
  • Price*: $10 per participant/student
  • Location: at DelMNS
Register for a Discovery Tour
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TRAIT-astic – Mobile Museum

Overview

Have you ever wondered why you look the way you do? What about why some plants are big while others are small? Or even why birds have all different colors of feathers? We will come to you with some hands-on activities/games to explore these possibilities.

Possible Activities (at the educators discretion)

  • What is a TRAIT?
  • Birds of Paradise images and information

Standards

NGSS: 1-LS3-1, 2-LS4-1, 3-LS4-3, 3-LS4-4

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 1.5 hours recommended
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students: 30 per session at your school/organization
  • Intended Grade Level: PreK-5
  • Location: at your site
Register for a Mobile Museum Outreach Program
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches