Overview

The Bakken Museum's assemblies and residencies are a chance to experience the drama of science and theater together in your gym, auditorium, or cafeteria. It is also perfect for libraries, scout groups, science fairs, and other family or youth events outside of the school day; these customize-able programs bring entertainment and education to all ages.

Additional Information

Cost: please contact us for details and pricing

Multi-Day Residency GRADES 3-6 - To make your Bakken experience really last, book a multi-day residency. String together a collection of workshops and/or assemblies that allow students to follow a scaffold-ed arc, specially constructed by the Bakken team from the topics you select. Fit these visits into a few days in a row or have us visit once a week for several weeks to allow to programming impact to stretch wider and go deeper, leaving students with a strong content base and the excitement to carry on the exploration beyond the confines of the program.

Round Robin One-Day Residency GRADES 3-6 - For an entire grade who wishes to stretch their experience and make connections across a few topics, this one-day residency option is an excellent opportunity to dig deeper. A team of Bakken educators will come to your school and teach either 3 or 4 different programs concurrently; then classes will rotate between them until everyone has experienced all the programs. A graphic organizer that travels with each class is used to help students track connections between the classes and allows each program to build on those before it, no matter what order they are seen in.

NANOSCIENCE PACKAGE: SMALL AND SMALLER GRADES 3-8 - Start with our fascinating Small Stuff, Big Deal Assembly as an introduction to the cutting edge of science on the smallest scale, then build on that understanding with an inquiry-driven Nano workshop. Students will take apply the basic ideas and excitement generated by the show to getting up close with demonstrations and work on small group challenges to get an understanding of this small science and its big possibilities.

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