Certified Service
Provider Official Media Sponsor
|
 |
Exhibit Hall
Engage, excite, inspire! Our exhibit hall has dozens of interactive hands-on exhibits to keep every visitor captivated and enthralled. A Tot Spot, live lizards, special events, classroom space, and science demonstrations make the Science Factory Children's Museum & Planetarium a place where "imagination gets in gear"!
Current Exhibits
 |
Your Healer Within
The Your Healer Within exhibit introduces students to the human body's remarkable self-repair systems and explains how to tap these to stay healthy. A trip through the exhibition offers insights into anatomy, physiology, the immune system, the nervous system and much more specific content. Students will leave with a desire to get healthy and stay that way.
For pictures and descriptions of the exhibit, as well as grade-specific classroom activities you can use to prepare your students for their field trip, visit:
http://www.healerwithin.org/
Planning a Field Trip to the Science Factory to see this exhibit?
Check out the resources for more information.
» K-8 Curriculum Standards [doc]
» 1-8 Curriculum Standards for Healer Within Intro [doc]
» K-2 Healer Within Scavenger Hunt [doc]
» K-2 Healer Within Scavenger Hunt Answer Key [doc]
» 3-8 Healer Within Scavenger Hunt [doc]
» 3-8 Healer Within Scavenger Hunt Answer Key [doc]
Generously sponsored by
|
 |
Every Body Eats
Every Body Eats, a 400 square foot bilingual (Spanish and English) traveling exhibit, is the perfect companion for the continuing Your Healer Within. Every Body Eats is designed to engage parents and children together through a highly interactive and playful environment that explores how to make healthy diet and nutrition choices.
For pictures and descriptions of the exhibit, see:
Every Body Eats Exhibit Description
Every Body Eats Exhibit Photos
|
| |
Laballotory
A highly interactive, colorful exhibit that provides plenty of action and education by exploring the physics behind simple machines and motions. Witness how long a ball will remain levitated by the fascinating powers of Bernoulli's principle, race different shaped cars on a racetrack, and drop golf balls through the "Kinetica" maze. LaBallotory is on loan to the Science Factory from A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village in Salem, Oregon.
|
 |
Recyclotron
Prevent the balls from ending up in the "landfill" in this recycled exhibit from OMSI.
 This exhibit made possible by a donation from BRING Recycling.
|
 |
The Tot Spot
Children 4 and under will have a ball in this exhibit area designated just for them. Toddlers can engage in a variety of hands-on fun in an exploratory space that is big-kid free!
Generously sponsored by SELCO Community Credit Union
TOTAL TOT SPOT TRANSFORMATION
 Your favorite Tot Spot is about to undergo an ocean-themed make over! Debuting in March, the updated Tot Spot will become “Discovery Cove,” an immersive ocean and shoreline play zone. Visiting toddlers will be able to climb a lighthouse play structure, touch a starfish in a makebelieve tide pool touch tank, or act out stories with ocean animal puppet characters. Tots may also enjoy getting active in the ball pit “shallows” - or, they can watch ocean animals in action displayed on the new flat screen TV. The Tot Spot ocean environment will be finished with commissioned illustrative collages designed to stimulate the imaginations of all age groups.
While some of the pieces in the new Tot Spot came from an exhibit collection acquired from Alaska’s Imaginarium, the new and improved Tot Spot was made possible by a generous gift from the Emerging Generation trustees of the Woodard Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Woodard Family Foundation and Alaska’s Imaginarium for helping us produce this exciting new ocean adventure for tots and families at the Science Factory, and SELCO Community Credit Union for their ongoing support of the Tot Spot and Tot Discovery Day program.
The Grand Opening of the new Tot Spot will be held in conjunction with March’s “Under the Sea” Tot Day program - Friday, March 5, between 9 am and noon.
|
 |
Renegade the Iguana and Lizard Terrarium
Watch Renegade, our resident green iguana, as he lounges in a tree, eats a salad or watches you. Then visit the Lizard Terrarium to see lizards, plants and frogs from all over the world.
Ongoing support provided by Albertson's and Al Heide. |
Sponsored by
InSite Virtual Tours
|
