Science City
General Admission
Admission
- Union Station Members Free Admission Year-Round to Science City
- General Admission $17.25*
- *Excludes Preservation Fee. Prices subject to change
Hours of Operation
- Tuesday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm
- Sunday 12 pm - 5 pm
Join Us All Month Long For Activities and Demos with Science City Educators
Monthly Theme: Engineering Exploration!
Daily Science Demos and Activities
Indoor Fun for the Whole Family!
Create a Creature: Learn how probability and genetics help determine the different way that creatures can look. Roll dice and decide what characteristics your creature will display.
Engineering Fun: Learn about physics principles such as gravity, speed and momentum as you construct components of a rollercoaster project that will be added to throughout the month.
Paper Lanterns
Guests will get experience using a ruler and making exact measurements as well as fine motor skills with scissors. Everyone will create their own lantern and take it home with them to help decorate for spooky season!
Make a Mechanism
Create your very own simple mechanism using Makedo and cardboard construction tools. Will you create an arm, a leg, a robot claw?
Animal Chats
Join us at 11:30 and 3:30 to learn more about our animals!
Learn how various fish and deep see creatures survive in some of the most inhospitable places in the ocean.
Sunday animal chats are at 12:30 and 2.
Mini Med School
September 23 – 30: Vote for which apple you like best, red or green, by adding a finger paint thumbprint to the crawling caterpillar.
October: Tinker Tots – On alternating weeks all month long, your young engineer can help the Three Little Pigs construct a sturdy house and test incline and decline with various ramps and cars.
Early Learning highlights for this month:
Talk: “What is the strongest material?” “Why did that blow down?” “What if we moved the ramp lower or higher?”
Sing: “Shapes Are All Around”
Read: Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beatty
Write: Fine motor skills development
Play: Blocks, puzzles and sensory station.
Experiments in Expression
Word are only part of our story! Communication is more than WHAT we say—it’s HOW we say it. Experiments in Expression shows us how emotions, gestures, and vocal expression work together to shape how we say words in communication. Investigate the role of feelings & body language by pairing various emotions with a single sentence. How can the same words take on completely different meanings? Come find out in this interactive activity, highlighting the science of LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS!