Our educational science workshops for grades K-5 are designed to inspire curiosity and critical thinking. Each activity is aligned with North Dakota Science Standards and encourages students to explore concepts like growth, matter, engineering, coding, and more. Our STEM Educators provide everything necessary for the experience, including all materials, set up, and facilitation. They also offer professional development to teachers to help bring new hands-on learning opportunities into the classroom. These workshops are designed to empower educators while engaging students in meaningful, interactive science education.
Custom Workshops
Have a specific need for a workshop that you don’t see on this list? Let us know! We create custom workshops for individual needs and make sure they align to standards, are hands-on, and highly interactive.
The kids loved the hands-on! – Valley Edinburg Teacher
Available Workshops for Grades K-5
How Does It Grow?
Growing Plants
Students will explore the needs of living things and create their own window greenhouse for a seed to learn about plant growth.
Grades: K, 1
Length: 45 min
ND Science Standards: K-PS3-1; K-LS1-1; 1-LS1-1
What’s the Matter?
Exploring the Properties of Matter
Students will investigate solids, measure liquids, and observe gases that fizz and bubble.
Grades: K, 1, 2
Length: 45 min
ND Science Standards: 2-PS1-1, 2, 4
Be a Space Scientist
Astronomical Exploration
Students will “become” a planet and learn about its rotation to learn why we have day and night and will build a solar system that they can keep in their pocket.
Grades: 1, 2
Length: 45 min
ND Science Standards: 1-PS4-2, 1-ESS1-1
Magnificent Magnets
Exploring Magnetism
From refrigerators to roller coasters, magnets are everywhere! Students will explore how magnets interact, create a flying kite, and create a marble maze.
Grades: 1, 2, 3
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 3-PS2-3, 3-PS2-4
Finch Robots and Coding
Learning the Basics of Coding
Using Finch robots, students will learn how to program robots to follow lines and perform tasks, progressing through different concepts depending on age and skill level.
Grades: 2 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 4-PS4-3 / ND Computer Science & Cybersecurity Standards: ES.DD.1
LittleBits and Electricity
Exploring Electricity and Circuits
Students will learn about electricity and how electrons flow while exploring the basics of circuitry with LittleBits electronic building blocks.
Grades: 3 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 4-PS3-2, 4-PS3-4
Bucket Towers
Collaborative Engineering
Students will design and test a freestanding tower that can hold the most weight before collapsing. This activity teaches 3D shapes, variables, and construction engineering.
Grades: 3 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 3-ET1-1, 3; 4-ET1-3; 5-ET1-3
Dissection (Owl Pellets)
Exploring Predator-Prey Relationships
Students will dissect owl pellets to identify content and learn about predator-prey relationships and the food cycle. Non-refundable materials fee of $50 and 4 weeks advanced booking required.
Grades: 4 & Up
Length: 45 min
ND Science Standards: 4-LS1-1, 5-LS-2-1
Forensics
Case of the Missing Diamond Maker
Students will work as forensic investigators, using scientific techniques, such as fingerprints and chromatography, to analyze evidence at a crime scene.
Grades: 4 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 4-LS1-1; 5PS1-2, 3
Map Reading with ND’s Watershed map
Students will learn about watersheds and the impact people can make on our watersheds. Students will also learn about reading a map and the importance of the parts of the map remembered by the acronym TODALS. They will use this information to follow clues on our 20ft by 30ft map of North Dakota’s watersheds.
Grades: 3 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 3-LS4-4, 4-ESS2-2, 4-ESS2-1, 5-ESS3-1
Robots with ND’s Watershed map
Students will learn about North Dakota’s watersheds, our aquatic nuisance species, the impacts they have, how they spread, and what we can do to prevent or slow the spread. They will then learn how to drive our Sphero RVR robots and explore North Dakota’s main drainage basins on our 20 ft by 30ft map of North Dakota’s watersheds.
Grades: 3 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 3-LS4-4, 4-ESS2-2, 4-ESS2-1, 5-ESS3-1
Protecting Pollinators with a Bee Counter
Students will explore the vital role of bees in the plant life cycle, learn how people and scientists can help protect them, and apply engineering and coding skills to build a device that counts bees visiting a flower using the Climate Action Kits by Forward Education.
Grades: 3 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 3-LS1-1, 4-LS1-1, 5-ESS3-1
The Powerful Force of Wind
Students will investigate how wind powers turbines to generate renewable energy and then use engineering and coding skills to build a model wind turbine using the Climate Action Kits by Forward Education.
Grades: 4 & Up
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 4-PS3-4, 4-ESS3-1, 5-ESS3-1
Soil Composting
Students will learn how composting turns organic waste into nutrient-rich soil, explore eco-friendly technologies like solar-powered tumblers, and apply engineering and coding skills to build a model composting tumbler using the Climate Action Kits by Forward Education.
Grades: 5
Length: 60 min
ND Science Standards: 5-LS2-1, 5-ESS3-1