School Programs Calendar and Booking At Museum or We Come to You. 

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Bring your lessons to life! Our hands-on workshops and dynamic presentations provide an engaging introduction to a new unit, a deeper exploration of a current topic, or a fun and authentic reinforcement of previously taught concepts.

At The Museum

Enhance your field trip with an immersive activity! Add a workshop to your field trip for $5 more a student or a tour for $3 student more.

Workshops min 15 max 38;   Tour Groups: min 10 max 35   Presentation:  min 10 max 60

At Your Institution 

Our hands-on workshops can also be taught at your school, community center, library or other educational venue!

Workshops max 36;      Presentation need a screen and large room max 75

Note: Workshops outside San Diego County will be charged a 75 cents per mile fee both ways.

Mobile Classroom

Have our 42 foot school bus come to your location for programming in an onsite field trip. Please see this link for Mission Control information and activities.

Limited outreach scholarships are available each month to bring our programming to your San Diego County Title I school. For more information, please contact us education@sdasm.org

Need Additional Sessions?

The first session is listed below, book additional same-day sessions of the same program for $165 each 50 min program (max of 3 sessions per day). Have questions? Please email education@sdasm.org

Reserve your program today!

Fill out this form to start the reservation process. We are using Explorable Places as a booking site. Please make a free account to reserve your spot. 

DIY Solar Panels
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Theme: Space Exploration
Description:
Using processes created right here in CA, make and test a solar panel
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $210
HS-PS3-3: "Design, build, and refine a device that works within given constraints to convert one form of energy into another form of energy."

Space Gloves: Thermal Energy Transfer
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Theme: Space Exploration
Description:
Help design and test a glove that is both moveable and stands up to the cold.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
MS-ESS3-4 Construct an argument supported by evidence for how increases in human population and per capita consumption of natural resources impact Earth’s systems

Ready for Re-Entry: Energy Transfer
Grades: 3, 4, 5
Theme: Space Exploration
Description:
Discover how spacecraft return to Earth as we make heat shields.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
4-PS3-4: Design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Moon Landers
Grades: 1, 2
Theme: Space Exploration
Description:
Set off to the moon just like future Artemis astronauts as we discover how far the moon is, make landers for humans, and create our own communities.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
K-2-ETS1-2. Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

3 Little Pigs in Space: Storytime
Grades: PK, K
Theme: Space Exploration
Description:
Join the piglets as they set off into space. Can you construct a habitat/house that will survive the wolf shaped meteor? Includes stories, directed activity and playtime.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $185
Literacy Standards: 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life. Science Standard 1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.

Rockets: Motion
Grades: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Theme: Rocketry
Description:
Ready to be a rocket scientist? Students construct a rocket and then watch it launch with high pressure water. See forces in motion.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $210
PS2.A The effect of unbalanced forces on an object results in a change of motion. Patterns of motion can be used to predict future motion. Some forces act through contact, some forces act even when the objects are not in contact. The gravitational force of Earth acting on an object near Earth’s surface pulls that object toward the planet’s center.

Rockets: Gravity
Grades: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Theme: Rocketry
Description:
Ready to be a rocket scientist? Students construct a rocket and then watch it launch with high pressure water. See forces in motion.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
PS2.A The effect of unbalanced forces on an object results in a change of motion.The gravitational force of Earth acting on an object near Earth’s surface pulls that object toward the planet’s center.

Zoom Rocket Room: Storytime
Grades: PK, K
Theme: Rocketry
Description:
Soar on a spaceship as we read stories, play, and create rockets.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $185
Literacy Standards: 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life. Science Standards 1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.

Robots: Cybersecurity Ciphers
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Theme: Robots
Description:
Use our robot collection to decipher and send secure messages across the classroom.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $210
6-8.NI.4 Model the role of protocols in transmitting data across networks and the internet.

Robots: Modeling the Moon
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Theme: Robots
Description:
Use our Ozobots to model how mining might take place on the moon.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $210
6-8.AP.19 Use computational models to run different variables.

Robots: Informational Processing
Grades: 3, 4, 5
Theme: Robots
Description:
Robots and humans share a love of sensors and central processing. Start with an off scree activity to design a robot and then use our Lego or Cubelets to create robots of your own.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $210
3-5 LS1.D Different sense receptors are specialized for particular kinds of information; Animals use their perceptions and memories to guide their actions.

Robots: Simple Coding
Grades: 1, 2
Theme: Robots
Description:
Explore beginning coding with an off screen intro activity and then progress to using a robot that will follow simple codes.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $210
K-2.NI.6 Create patterns to communicate a message.

Robot Petting Zoo: Storytime
Grades: PK, K
Theme: Robots
Description:
Explore our wide collection of robots in this interactive story time.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $185
Literacy Standards: 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life. Science Standards 1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.

Autonomous Rovers
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Theme: Circuits
Description:
Using Little Bits create your own rovers that won't crash.
Time: 60 mins
Cost: $210
9-12S.CS.1 Illustrate ways computing systems implement logic through hardware components.

Aircraft Systems
Grades: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Theme: Circuits
Description:
Craft your own electrical airplane system using Little bits.
Time: 60 mins
Cost: $210
6-8.CS.2 Design a project that combines hardware and software components to collect and exchange data. 3-5.CS.2 - Demonstrate how computer hardware and software work together as a system to accomplish tasks.

Bug Bites
Grades: 1, 2, 3
Theme: Circuits
Description:
Combine electrical engineering and bug fun as we create models of insects using circuit components.
Time: 60 mins
Cost: $210
1-LS1-1. Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs

Circuit’s Tale: Storytime
Grades: PK, K
Theme: Circuits
Description:
Spark imagination with stories about electricity and then play with simple circuits in an interactive story time.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $185
Literacy Standards: 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life. Science Standards 1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.

When Pigs Fly: Newton’s Laws of Motion
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Theme: Aviation
Description:
Discover the world of aviation as you design a hover device for a pig to test our wind tunnel.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
HS - PS2-1 Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration. (Cause and Effect)

Aviation Innovation: Forces and Motion
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Theme: Aviation
Description:
Students design, build, and test their own hand-launched gliders to safely carry a valuable payload. See how balanced and unbalanced forces interact in the glider.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
6-8-PS2-1 The role of the mass of an object must be qualitatively accounted for in any change of motion due to the application of a force.

Aircraft Design: Engineering Process
Grades: 3, 4, 5
Theme: Aviation
Description:
Students design, build, and test their own hand-launched gliders to safely carry a valuable payload. See how balanced and unbalanced forces interact in the glider.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
3-5-ETS1-3 Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.

Things that Fly
Grades: 1, 2
Theme: Aviation
Description:
From animals to plants to machines discover why things fly as you create planes, helicopters and kites.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
2-PS1-2. Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

Cleared for Takeoff: Storytime
Grades: PK, K
Theme: Aviation
Description:
Fly high as we learn about building and riding airplanes. Includes stories, activities, and playtime.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $185
Literacy Standards: 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life. Science Standards 1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.

Are We Alone: Aliens and Exoplanets
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Theme: Astronomy
Description:
Examine a recently found exoplanet and design a being with specific traits for the ecosystem found there.
Time: 60 mins
Cost: $200
HS-LS4-4. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations.

Model the Universe
Grades: 6, 7, 8
Theme: Astronomy
Description:
Create proportional models of the solar system and help sort celestial objects.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
MS-ESS1-3: Analyzing the scale properties of the solar system.

Starlight’s Journey
Grades: 3, 4, 5
Theme: Astronomy
Description:
Using sensors examine how distance impacts star brightness, then create a star life cycle.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
5-ESS1-1: Stellar Brightness and Distance: Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from the Earth. (Scale, Proportion, and Quantity)

Patterns in the Night Sky
Grades: 1, 2
Theme: Astronomy
Description:
Explore how patterns and cycles are discovered and observed in the night sky. Day and night, moon phases, and star patterns.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $200
1-ESS1-1: Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Twinkle Twinkle: Storytime
Grades: PK, K
Theme: Astronomy
Description:
Zoom through around the moon, stars, and planets as we read stories, explore models, and recreate the night sky.
Time: 50 mins
Cost: $185
Literacy Standards: 2.2 Understand and use accepted words for categories of objects encountered and used frequently in everyday life. Science Standards 1.5 Make predictions and check them, with adult support, through concrete experiences.