2. What Bugs Ya'? kids can see real & lifelike specimens, to sort and count, fold & make bugs, and see how they see

3. Creepy Crawlers: work with amphibians and reptiles (nothing live but fascinating) examples, measuring and "spotting" likes and differences

4. Roller Coaster Physics: kids get to observe physical motion & manipulate balls to see cause & effect

5. Under The Sea: oceanography for youngsters, models, specimens, art, w/samples of vertebrates & invertebrates sharks teeth dig, matching whales & dolphin babies,

6. Earth Sciences: learning about rocks and stuff, our planet, forces in nature, gems & a lava identification game for fun

7. Archaeology: peoples and cultures, art projects, dig site, learning about natural & man-made artifacts, history for kids

8. Skeletons: bones and hard parts, fascinating finds, our bodies (and ectoskeletons can be added).

9. Kitchen Chemistry: observe how we mix things like soaps, powders, use adhesives, tools like a mortar & pestle

10. Magnets & Gizmos: movement, gears, attractiveness and repelling evidence through play.

11. Paleontology: fossil game for finding out about "plant, animal or mineral" (trace fossils) Kids learn to compare a wonderful variety of examples from an extensive collection.

12. Sounds: learn about vibration and sound enhancement (make musical instruments using music-ethnocology theory throughout history & cultures)

13. Color, Light & Reflection: mix colors paint & light, mirror art, reflective writing and optical, illusions "Mirror Mirror" show (for group assembly)

14. Botany (trees, leaves, seeds & pods): plant parts we eat, seeds that move, variety of things people do with plants

15. Zoology: fabulous samples of the animal kingdom, some real specimens- from furs & skins to horns skulls & teeth

16. Bubbles: exhibition of soap molecules stretching and learning about air and water.

17. In the Sea: corals, shells, radial art, urchins starfish & sand dollars. Terrific specimens for kids to compare.

Penni Rubin: BA. in ECED, master teacher since 1970. Developed her own enrichment centers, was on staff at English Nanny School. Author/illustrator ("Mommy I Have Nothing To DO Book, Science in the Sandbox, Math in Motion, What's Under Your Feet?" for the USGS). Singer and song writer, popular lecturer and teacher trainer in Creativity in the Classroom, using her Project S.A.M.M. (integrating science art and math/music) into curriculum of preschool & primary students. Presently, Penni was on staff at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.