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Museum and Traveling Workshops for Preschool – Grade 5

It’s full STEAM ahead as we step into a new school year with 18 S.T.E.A.M.–infused workshops. Stepping Stones Museum for Children is an engine of playful learning with a nationally-recognized track record of success. We provide outstanding exhibits, programs and services for children that contribute to healthy communities around the world. Bring your class or group to the museum to experience the hands-on fun, connect with us virtually or we can bring our special brand of play-based learning to you!

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Tours and Workshops

Title 1 Schools

Designated Title 1 schools receive discounted pricing for tours and workshops. Please contact the museum for more information about these special rates.

Homeschool Experiences

Homeschool groups of all ages and sizes have a unique opportunity to investigate our multidisciplinary, hands-on exhibits and activities. Link up with other homeschool families for our engaging workshops or a social gathering at the museum.

Museum Tour
and Workshop

In addition to your tour, groups can enhance topics being explored with fun, interactive workshops led by a Museum Educator.

  • Self-Guided Tour+

    $400

  • Guided Tour+

    $500

  • One class or group per workshop

  • Workshops add 45 mins to tour

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Museum Tour

Our museum staff will take you and your group on an exhibit tour, engage in discussions and help them uncover the many content layers of learning opportunities.

  • Self-Guided Tour

    $300 per class

  • Guided Tour

    $380 per class

  • 90–minute tours are available daily starting at 9:00 am

  • Free admission for adults at a 1:5 ratio

  • Bonus: Each child will receive a FREE admission pass to Stepping Stones for one child and one adult

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Workshops
at Your Location

No time? No bus? No worries! Our fun and engaging Museum Educators will bring our multidisciplinary workshops to you and your group.

  • $300 per workshop, plus travel fee

  • 45 minute workshops

  • Bonus: Each child will receive a FREE admission pass to Stepping Stones for one child and one adult

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* For an additional fee, Stepping Stones can develop a customized workshop to fit your curricular needs.

Workshops by Grade

At Stepping Stones, workshops are thoughtfully designed to spark curiosity and inspire creativity in every young learner. Tailored to fit the developmental needs of students from Preschool through to Grade 5, each workshop builds on foundational skills while encouraging hands-on discovery. Choose your grade level below to find engaging activities that connect to key learning themes, from science and art to storytelling and problem–solving.

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A snippet of our workshops in action

Preschool

Butterflies

Investigate butterflies and discover how they help us better understand the world. In this workshop, explore shapes and colors in nature using butterflies throughout their life stages.

Dinosaurs: Teeth to Tails

Unearth the past and uncover how dinosaurs were alike and how they were different. Classify them into groups based on their characteristics.

Listening Ears and Engineers

Put on your thinking caps and take out your magnifying glasses! Read and analyze select books from the Questioneers series by Andrea Beaty and engineer your own creative inventions just like Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere.

Ramps and Rollers

Engage in collaborative investigations to explore the cause and effect of force and motion by experimenting with ramps and rollers.

(Sense)-ational Explorations

Do you think it’s possible to smell sound? Work together to investigate the influence our five senses have on how we interact with the world around us.

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Illustration of Chef Lillie

Kindergarten

Butterflies

Investigate butterflies and discover how they help us better understand the world. In this workshop, explore shapes and colors in nature using butterflies throughout their life stages.

Dinosaurs: Teeth to Tails

Unearth the past and uncover how dinosaurs were alike and how they were different. Classify them into groups based on their characteristics.

Flying Contraptions 2.0

Calling ALL young engineers!  Develop, construct and test your own flying contraption designs! Compare the strengths and weaknesses of your creations.

Kinetic Contraptions

Investigate balanced and unbalanced forces, motion and gravity while designing your own kinetic contraption.

Let it Shine

Illuminate your learning as you experiment with how light interacts with transparent, translucent, opaque and reflective materials. Develop and present your own artistic demonstration of light’s many properties.

Listening Ears and Engineers

Put on your thinking caps and take out your magnifying glasses! Read and analyze select books from the Questioneers series by Andrea Beaty and engineer your own creative inventions just like Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere.

Matter Matters

Use your amazing investigation skills to observe, classify and experiment with three different forms of matter: solids, liquids and gasses.

Meet the Dinosaurs

Dive into the thrilling world of dinosaur survival exploring their unique movements, clever food tricks and how they outsmarted predators!

Ramps and Rollers

Engage in collaborative investigations to explore the cause and effect of force and motion by experimenting with ramps and rollers.

Seeing Sound

How are sounds made? How do we hear them? How can sounds be used to communicate? Investigate how vibrating materials make sound and how we hear that sound.

(Sense)-ational Explorations

Explore and discover the awe-inspiring properties of light and sound. Using your senses of hearing, sight and touch, learn more about the world around us.

Tell Me a Tale 1.0

Explore story arcs through classic and familiar tales. Work collaboratively and creatively to reimagine and retell a story with a cast of literary characters, new settings and challenges.

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Illustration of Lillie in a rocket ship

Grade 1

Flying Contraptions 2.0

Calling ALL young engineers!  Develop, construct and test your own flying contraption designs! Compare the strengths and weaknesses of your creations.

Kinetic Contraptions

Investigate balanced and unbalanced forces, motion and gravity while designing your own kinetic contraption.

Let it Shine

Illuminate your learning as you experiment with how light interacts with transparent, translucent, opaque and reflective materials. Develop and present your own artistic demonstration of light’s many properties.

Matter Matters

Use your amazing investigation skills to observe, classify and experiment with three different forms of matter: solids, liquids and gasses.

Meet the Dinosaurs

Dive into the thrilling world of dinosaur survival exploring their unique movements, clever food tricks and how they outsmarted predators!

Seeing Sound

How are sounds made? How do we hear them? How can sounds be used to communicate? Investigate how vibrating materials make sound and how we hear that sound.

Tell Me a Tale 1.0

Explore story arcs through classic and familiar tales. Work collaboratively and creatively to reimagine and retell a story with a cast of literary characters, new settings and challenges.

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Illustration of Lucy using

Grade 2

Flying Contraptions

Calling ALL young engineers!  Develop, construct and test your own flying contraption designs! Compare the strengths and weaknesses of your creations.

Kinetic Contraptions

Investigate balanced and unbalanced forces, motion and gravity while designing your own kinetic contraption.

Let it Shine

Illuminate your learning as you experiment with how light interacts with transparent, translucent, opaque and reflective materials. Develop and present your own artistic demonstration of light’s many properties.

Matter Matters

Use your amazing investigation skills to observe, classify and experiment with three different forms of matter: solids, liquids and gasses.

Meet the Dinosaurs

Dive into the thrilling world of dinosaur survival exploring their unique movements, clever food tricks and how they outsmarted predators!

Seeing Sound

How is sound made? Can you see, hear and touch it? Sound makes some crazy, vibrating connections!

Tell Me a Tale 1.0

Explore story arcs through classic and familiar tales. Work collaboratively and creatively to reimagine and retell a story with a cast of literary characters, new settings and challenges.

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Illustration of BooZoo using hand puppets

Grade 3

Ecosystem Explorations

Investigate ecosystems that can be found around the world, the effects change can have on ecosystems and how humans can support conservation efforts.

Fossil Detectives

Through the scientific investigation of fossils, uncover the secrets of how dinosaurs evolved and adapted to survive in their habitats.

Kinetic Contraptions

Investigate balanced and unbalanced forces, motion and gravity while designing your own kinetic contraption.

Natural Hazards

Weather affects our everyday lives. With extreme weather, the impacts can be more extreme. What can we do to make life habitable in the most extreme conditions? Explore natural disasters and hazards to design, build and test solutions that allow humanity to coexist with nature.

Roller Coasters

You’re in for a great ride! Design the fastest and wildest roller coaster using a wide variety of materials to demonstrate the energy, momentum and centrifugal force needed to make it a memorable ride.

Space Systems

Explore the mysteries of the solar system, create creatures capable of thriving on distant planets and engineer spacecraft destined for cosmic exploration.

Tell Me a Tale 2.0

Experiment with a story arc, theme and traditional archetypes to develop a retelling of a classic myth in the form of a poem! Gain an understanding of verse, rhythm and meter to build out a narrative of your liking.

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Illustration of Bird dressed as a safari guide

Grade 4

Ecosystem Explorations

Investigate ecosystems that can be found around the world, the effects change can have on ecosystems and how humans can support conservation efforts.

Fossil Detectives

Through the scientific investigation of fossils, uncover the secrets of how dinosaurs evolved and adapted to survive in their habitats.

Natural Hazards

Weather affects our everyday lives. With extreme weather, the impacts can be more extreme. What can we do to make life habitable in the most extreme conditions? Explore natural disasters and hazards to design, build and test solutions that allow humanity to coexist with nature.

Roller Coasters

You’re in for a great ride! Design the fastest and wildest roller coaster using a wide variety of materials to demonstrate the energy, momentum and centrifugal force needed to make it a memorable ride.

Space Systems

Explore the mysteries of the solar system, create creatures capable of thriving on distant planets and engineer spacecraft destined for cosmic exploration.

Tell Me a Tale 2.0

Experiment with a story arc, theme and traditional archetypes to develop a retelling of a classic myth in the form of a poem! Gain an understanding of verse, rhythm and meter to build out a narrative of your liking.

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Illustration of a Dinosaur

Grade 5

Ecosystem Exlporations

Investigate ecosystems that can be found around the world, the effects change can have on ecosystems and how humans can support conservation efforts.

Fossil Detectives

Through the scientific investigation of fossils, uncover the secrets of how dinosaurs evolved and adapted to survive in their habitats.

Natural Hazards

Weather affects our everyday lives. With extreme weather, the impacts can be more extreme. What can we do to make life habitable in the most extreme conditions? Explore natural disasters and hazards to design, build and test solutions that allow humanity to coexist with nature.

Roller Coasters

You’re in for a great ride! Design the fastest and wildest roller coaster using a wide variety of materials to demonstrate the energy, momentum and centrifugal force needed to make it a memorable ride.

Space Systems

Explore the mysteries of the solar system, create creatures capable of thriving on distant planets and engineer spacecraft destined for cosmic exploration.

Tell Me a Tale 2.0

Experiment with a story arc, theme and traditional archetypes to develop a retelling of a classic myth in the form of a poem! Gain an understanding of verse, rhythm and meter to build out a narrative of your liking.

Make Reservation
Illustration of BooZoo on a rollercoaster

Book Your Experience Today

Bookings are made a minimum of two weeks out from the date of contact. When making a reservation, please carefully estimate the number of children and adults in your class(es) in order to minimize the difference between your planned and actual participants. We can only hold a reservation with a deposit or full payment.

Call 203 899 0606 ext. 208 or email groupandschool@steppingstonesmuseum.org

Please have the following information ready:

  • Name of organization, contact name, phone number, address and contact email

  • Grade and number of classes in your group, with number of children and adults per class

  • Name of program(s) you wish to reserve

  • Preferred dates and times

  • Special educational or physical needs of students

NOTE: Submission of a registration does not guarantee a reservation. Stepping Stones will try to accommodate your first choice, but reservations are subject to availability and are made on a first-come, first-served basis.

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