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UPCOMING PUBLIC PRE-SCHOOL SCIENCE CLASSES
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Catawba Science Center offers engaging, educational programs to inspire young scientists, ages 3 to 5. CSC's Preschool Science Program allows preschoolers to get their hands dirty and their minds piqued by exploring simple science concepts through play, crafts and demonstrations.
Programs are offered monthly during the school year for preschoolers and their caregivers.
November 12:
Junior Engineers
Explore simple machines and how they are used in our lives everyday. Experiment with building materials to construct sturdy, tall towers. Make a picture using gears.
December 17:
Forecast for Fun - Sunshine, Snow and Rain!
What can be more fun than jumping in a pile of leaves? We will find out about the different seasons of the year. We will do leaf rubbings, play in the snow, experience springtime growth, and play at the beach all in one class. Create a rain stick.
For more information and registration forms click here
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NOVEMBER EVENTS
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Saturday - NOVEMBER 30, 2013
Season's Greenings Family Day
From 10 AM to 4 PM
Catabwa Science Center (CSC) is offering an opportunity for visitors to obtain knowledge about holiday plants and orchids. On Saturday, November 30, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CSC will host the Season's Greenings Family Day, in conjunction with Wicked Plants: The Exhibit. A variety of hands-on activities that will keep children young and old busy (and quite possibly dirty) continuously throughout the day.
CSC will welcome gardener Judy Sigmon and her knowledge of plants to the Inventor's Workshop. Judy will discuss holiday ornamentation and their symbolic meaning. Guests will have an opportunity to create a take home holiday ornament.
At 2 PM, in the SALT Block's small chorus room, there will be a special presentation about orchids by Phyllis Erikson of Ironwood Estate Orchids of Hickory. She will be bringing a unique variety of colorful orchids from her greenhouse. Guests will have the opportunity to learn all about orchids found around the world and how to care for them.
Catawba Science Center's Science Shop will also be hosting their annual open house. Guest will be treated to refreshments and special extra discounts to help them with their special holiday shopping needs.
Thanks the generous support of von Drehle Corporation and Shurtape, admission into Wicked Plants: The Exhibit is included in CSC's General Admission rates and admission is always free for CSC Members.
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CELEBRATING BIRTHDAYS
SCIENCE STYLE
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Catawba Science Center offers a variety of engaging and educational birthday party packages for children ages 3 to 12.
Fun, hands-on activities with these exciting science themes Flower Power, Seashore Celebration, Meet the Animals, Science Magic, Dino-Mite and Earth & Sky Spectacular.
Happy Birthday to everyone who celebrated their special day during the month of October at CSC:
Noah Barbano, Jackson Behmer,
Jones Doom, Addison Enci,
Reese Hornak, Silas Jourdan,
Jackson Keller, Leyton Patterson,
Tray Powell, Nolan Richardson,
Riley Stillwell, Parker Wicker
Click here for details about CSC's Birthday Party Packages
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UPCOMING HOMESCHOOL
SCIENCE COURSES
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Catawba Science Center is pleased to offer another year of science homeschool courses. This year we are offering a dissection series for ages 13 and up. Please see the registration booklet for more details.
All classes are tied to the North Carolina Common Core and Essential Standards for Science. Our goal each new school year is to maintain the high quality of instruction you have come to expect from CSC, incorporating parental input with our resources for enriching programs.
Pre-K and Kindergarten - November 12-13
Simple Machines:
Find out how gears help things move and simple machines help us make our work easier. Explore gears with a gear train.
1st and 2nd Grade - November 12-13
Color my World:
Use prisms and lenses to investigate color and light. Build your own kaleidoscope.
3rd and 4th Grade - November 12-13
Wicked Plants:
Explore CSC's traveling exhibition to learn about
some pesky plants and pests.
5th and 6th Grade - November 12-13
Reptile Round-up:
What makes an animal a reptile? How do snakes differ from lizards? Get ready for some scaly encounters.
7th and 8th Grade - November 12-13
Dry Ice Investigations:
Gain an understanding of matter, the nature of gases and phase changes by experimenting with bubbling, mysterious dry ice. Brrr!
High School - November 13
Cell Structure and Function:
Investigate basic cell structure, and cellular functions of osmosis and diffusion. Compare cells of plants, animals and bacteria.
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CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER
BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKFAIR
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Catawba Science Center will be hosting their annual bookfair fundraiser at Barnes and Noble in Hickory on Friday December 13, 2013 and Saturday December 14, 2013.
Help Catawba Science Center while completing your holiday book purchases. Barnes and Noble in Hickory will donate a portion of your purchases to CSC during this two day event.
As a reward, visitors to the local Barnes and Noble will be treated to several exciting Catawba Science Center activities over this 2 day event.
On Friday the 13th, CSC's preschool educators will conduct a story time from 11 a.m. to noon in the children's book area. They will also have many exciting activities for preschool age children.
At 5 p.m., CSC's education department and teen volunteers will be making liquid nitrogen ice cream for everyone to share. Stop by and have a taste of this delectable treat.
At 8 PM, join Bruce Beerbower when he brings a bevy of animals and creepy crawlers. Bruce always has a surprise and this year won't be any different.
On Saturday the 14th, CSC will bring aquatic animals from the from 10 AM to noon. Don't miss your opportunity to see these marvelous creatures up close.
From noon until 3 pm, CSC will bring more live animals to Barnes and Noble for everyone to see.
To complete the festivities, CSC will host a special activity , Nanos and Dinos! from 4 to 8 p.m. Learn about the very small to the very large during this event.
If you are planning any book purchases this holiday season, please help support Catawba Science Center by marking your calendar and saving your purchases until this once a year fundraising event.
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SCOUT CAMP-INS AT
CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER
Explore CSC day or night with scout programs - camp-ins, theme days and evening classes. During camp-ins, scouts participate in classes about a variety of exciting science concepts related to elective requirements, then spend the night among exhibits. There's also time to explore the science center while it is closed to the public.
2014 Scout Camp-in
Info & Registration Forms
Girl Scouts
March 14, 2014
Bear Scouts
March 21-22 & March 28-29, 2014
Webelos Scouts
January 10-11 & January 17-18,2014
Wolves Scouts
February 7-8 & February 21-22, 2014
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NEW ADDITIONS TO WICKED PLANTS: THE EXHIBIT
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The Wicked Plants Exhibit at Catawba Science Center has been called "Wild, Neat, Amazing, Mysterious, and WICKED COOL!" Set in the venue of an old Victorian Mansion, visitors never know what to expect around the next corner. There are several mysteries to solve as one explores and learns about plants that can make one itch, sick, kill, or do other strange things. Hands on components engage visitors of all ages to learn about plant - their uses, dangers and how some are invasive (taking over natural habitats.
High tech computer and electronic screens share scientific data and folk lore while a working Zoetrope (early motion picture device) illustrates how some plants move by catapulting their seeds.
Catawba Science Center Staff have added other surprises - live creatures in special cages. Have you spotted our Giant Bird Eating Tarantula, 7'long centipede or other arthropods that arrived at opening time?
Recently, a two new creatures have found their way into the exhibit.
White Eyed Assassin Bugs, native to Africa, are cousins to Stinkbugs and the strange looking Big Wheel Bug found in Catawba County. These showy carnivorous insects have bright white dots on their shiny black bodies.
Giant Spiny Stick Insects (also called Devil's Thorn Bugs, are native to New Guinea with relatives around the world. (Their North Carolina Cousins are called walking sticks.) The Spiny Stick Insects resemble walking, crawling thorn branches, and have near perfect camouflage. They are herbivores- eating leaves of many bushes and trees including pyracantha (fire thorn), rose, blackberry, and oaks. The males have large "thorns" on their back legs for protection.
These strange, exciting insects will be on loan for the duration of the Wicked Plants Exhibit at Catawba Science Center from the Museum of Life & Sciences in Durham, North Carolina
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MEMBERSHIP
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Many CSC Memberships will expire at the end of November, so be on the look out for CSC Membership Renewal materials in your mail or email.
CSC Members continue to recieve many great benefits, like free admission to CSC exhibits and discounted rates on planetarium shows, science camps, programs and birthday parties. To remain eligible for these program discounts, your CSC Membership must be valid throughout the time you or your family member will participate.
That means renew now to see CSC's current exhibits including Wicked Plants and RetroView.
Don't delay, renew today by clicking here.
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