The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Growing a Grass Head

Students will witness a fascinating chemical reaction and learn how to identify when a reaction has occurred by combining simple ingredients.

Learners will learn how dinosaurs were classified, compare shapes and sizes, and explore how paleontologists make discoveries. They'll analyze how dinosaurs interacted back in the day, and make their own dinosaur drawings and a fossil cast.

Young scholars create a parachute to explore how air pushes up against an object and slows it down as it falls.

In this lesson, students will witness the creation of a funnel, observe how a funnel moves debris, and learn how a thunderstorm can create tornados.

Students observe a molecular dance of bursting colors through exploring states of matter and learning that materials can be characterize by how they respond to water.

Students characterize materials by their state of matter and then combined materials to create a piece of colorful, tie dye-esque paper.

Students learn how dinosaurs are named for unique body parts or behaviors, for the location where they were found, or after a person and create their own dinosaur using the naming conventions they learn.

Students will observe the germination and growth of plants from seeds over the course of several days, and record their observations in a journal.

Students will begin exploring dinosaur' bodies by measuring them and comparing dinosaur size to their own size.

Learners will observe the parts of a seed, and identify how the different parts of the seed help a plant germinate.