The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Plants Alive: Garden in a Glove Journal

Young scholars 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...

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

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.

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

Students learn about germination, or the process by which an organism grows from a seed and witness how seeds use sun, water, and soil to turn into a fascinating head of grass.

For 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 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.

Check out this step-by-step experiment and, before you know it, you'll be growing a garden in a glove.

Calling all green thumbs! Using a clear plastic glove, pupils create a plant nursery. Learners plant different types of seeds in a moistened cotton ball that is placed into each of the fingers in the glove. Leaving the seeds there for...