Engaging science experiences at your school

Residencies give your students the opportunity to spend some up-close time with our professional educators. They'll come to your school for a day, a week, or longer! All of our residencies begin with a lively assembly program and continue with follow-up sessions for each teacher's classroom.

Your students will solve fascinating challenges, use intriguing scientific equipment, learn distinctive and interesting science content, and get enthusiastic about science. We'll work with you to develop a schedule that fits your student population. A standard week-long residency for a school of 500-600 students includes two assemblies and 48 fifty-minute time slots for class sessions.

Sessions can be taught in the teacher's room or in a classroom space provided by the school. Schedules and cost may vary due to number of contact hours.

Residency Topics

The following topics are available this year:

Antarctica Residency
Investigate how a glacier moves and how it affects landscapes, plan a dogsled trip to Antarctica, clean up an oil spill, and evaluate the insulating qualities of fabrics for cold weather wear.
Grades K-6
Downloads: classroom summary

Crime Lab Science Residency
Apply problem-solving skills and scientific processes to solve a fictional crime complete with suspects, evidence and an intriguing story. Each student learns different techniques in forensic science to analyze evidence and reason out "who done it."
Grades K-8
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Electricity Residency
Discover how electricity is produced by investigating a variety of sources, explore how types of materials (including people) allow electrons to flow through them, and investigate the wonders of static electricity. Students will construct a static electricity producer, an electromagnet or a magnetic suction device to continue their research on their own.
Grades K-6
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Energy Connections Residency
Investigate challenges to observe, measure, and analyze how different objects use and transfer energy. Students develop an understanding of why and how to conserve energy at home and school as they participate in engaging experiments to evaluate energy consumption.
Grades K-6
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Three Rivers Residency
Examine the St. Croix, Minnesota, and Mississippi river systems. Students explore the biology, ecology, water quality, and interdependence of these backyard waterways.
Grades K-8
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Water Residency
Students explore the importance of water as a resource as they conduct water cycle experiments, pump groundwater from wells, attempt to make wastewater clean enough to drink, and observe pH changes in lakes affected by acid rain.
Grades K-6
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Archaeology Residency
Students analyze artifacts, read layers of debris, excavate and map a simulated archaeological site, and discover microscopic evidence as they develop an understanding of the tools and techniques of archaeology. They use these skills to uncover clues about the lives of people who lived over 9000 years ago in the area of modern-day Turkey.
Grades K-8
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Reservation Information

Residency prices are based on contact hours. Please contact us for a quote.

Reserve a Residency Program today!
To reserve an Assembly Program, email us at or call us at (651) 221-4748 or (800) 221-9444, ext. 4748.