Animal Families
Animal Families come in all different shapes and sizes. Find out how animals adapt to live in these families and survive in their habitats.

• Children will meet an MCM animal up close and personal.
• Children will learn to identify and classify what makes up an animal family.
• Children will learn about adaptations and what animals need to survive in their habitat.
• Standards (Program best suited for students in grades K-3.)
  • LS.2 Describe and compare the physical features of common living plants and animals.
  • LS.3 Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats.
  • LS.3 Classify living organisms according to variations in specific physical features (i.e. body coverings, appendages) and describe how those features may provide an advantage for survival in different environments.

Learn Not to Burn
Fire can be a scary thing to children, especially if they don’t know how to be safe. Learn Not to Burn teaches children what to do if there is a fire in their house and how and where to get help.

• Children will learn how to escape a structure fire with the most up-to-date safety instructions.
• Children will participate in a fire simulation complete with smoke and heated doors.
• Children will know how to get help in case of a fire through 911 simulators.
• Standards (Program best suited for students in grades K-3.)
  • 2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers and leaders and describe how they help us. Example: Parents, teachers, school principal, bus drivers, and policemen.

Cookie Creation
The world is full of color. Cookie Creation takes a deeper look into how colors are developed.

• Children will learn about primary and secondary colors.
• Children will be able to mix frosting to create a variety of colors.
• Children will be able to make art using frosting and graham crackers (all supplies are nut free).
• Standards (Program best suited for students in grades K-3.)
  • VA:Cr2.1.K (a) Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.
  • VA:Cr3.1.1 (a) Use art vocabulary to describe choices while creating art.

Shopping with Shapes
Shopping with Shapes helps children develop and strengthen a variety of skills, including math, geometry, and color recognition. During this program, children receive a “shopping list” featuring specific criteria, then they must search around a designated area of the museum to find matching cards that meet those requirements.

Shopping with Shapes is now offered for three different age groups based on State Standards:

• Pre-K and Kindergarten: This Shopping with Shapes program focuses on matching skills, emphasizing shape and color.
  • K.G.1 Compare two- and three-dimensional shapes in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/”corners”), and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).
  • K.RV.2.2 Identify and sort pictures of objects into categories (e.g., colors, shapes, opposites).
• 1st and 2nd Grade: This Shopping with Shapes program incorporates simple addition and subtraction facts.
  • 1.CA.1 Demonstrate fluency with addition facts and the corresponding subtraction facts within 20.
  • 2.CA.2 Using number sense and place value strategies, add and subtract within 1,000, including composing and decomposing tens and hundreds.
• 3rd Grade: This Shopping with Shapes program incorporates multiplication and division facts.
  • 3.CA.6 Demonstrate fluency with mastery of multiplication facts and corresponding division facts of 0 to 10.