Group tours are aligned with the Ohio State Educational Standards

and are led by early childhood experts trained in experiential learning techniques.

 

All tours are 90 minutes in length and include learning and playing in three of the following exhibits:

 

Water, Water Everywhere!

Splish! Splash!

The Urban Water Cycle is explored through a catchy song and the flowing currents of our water table. Students may even become a “raindrop” in the water cycle climber

 

Money, My Community & Me 

Bridges to Our Community is classic experiential learning. Students are in charge as they role-play their way through a day in our community: drive the RTA bus or Kohl’s Kids Care© safety car to the house, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, grocery store, or bank.

Every class will participate in an interactive puppet show introducing Financial Literacy through the basics of earning, spending and saving money!

 

 

Special Seasonal Exhibits!

 

Abracadabra! Everyday Magic

April 26, 2008 through August 10, 2008

Reveal the world of magic through math and science! Great analytical skills will be needed to decipher a secret code, manipulate air pressure to suspend objects, create a chemical reaction with your body heat, learn a new card trick, build a keystone arch, and even disappear into thin air!

 

 

Healthier Ever After

August 23, 2008 through Early October 2008

Once upon a time children traveled through the Fitness Forest learning all about exercise and nutrition so they could live “Healthier Ever After.”  At The Children's Museum of Cleveland “Healthier Ever After” is an active fairytale forest. Children must maneuver through the make-believe forest overcoming obstacles as they exercise their bodies and learn healthy nutrition facts in a fun, playful manner. In doing so, they will learn to live “healthier ever after.”
 

 

SANDstruction ~ Annual Sand Exhibit

December 13, 2008 through Mid-April

Grab your hard hats, roll up your sleeves and head to The Children's Museum of Cleveland where over 70 tons of sand will transform the Museum’s Pinzone Pavilion into a giant construction site! Kids will create their own sand sculptures, construct their own buildings, examine blueprints, "drive" dump trucks, or excavate sand with a digger. Whatever you choose, SANDstruction is sure to provide interactive, hands-on dramatic play to satisfy every child. 

 

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Click here for a suggested list of first grade companion resources to enhance your experience...

 

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Ohio Academic Content Standards: Bridges to Our Community

 

Language Arts
Communication: Oral and Visual
A. Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.
B. Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.

C. Follow multi-step directions.

Research

A. Generate questions for investigation and gather information from a variety of sources.

B. Retell important details and findings.

Social Studies
Economics
A. Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy
their wants.
B. Distinguish between goods and services and explain how people can be both buyers and sellers of goods and services.

C. Explain ways that people may obtain goods and services.

 

Mathematics
Number, Number Sense and Operations
D. Determine the value of a collection of coins and dollar bills.
F. Count using numerals and ordinal numbers.

Data Analysis and Probability
A. Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.
B. Sort and classify objects by attributes, and organize data into categories in a simple
table or chart.
C. Represent data using objects, picture graphs and bar graphs.

D. Describe the probability of chance events as more, less or equally likely to occur.

 

 

Ohio Academic Content Standards: Splish! Splash!

 

Language Arts
Communication: Oral and Visual
A. Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.
B. Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.

C. Follow multi-step directions.

Research

A. Generate questions for investigation and gather information from a variety of sources.

B. Retell important details and findings.

Social Studies
Geography
A. Identify the location of the state of Ohio, the United States, the continents and oceans
on maps, globes and other geographic representations.
B. Identify physical and human features of places.

C. Explain how environmental processes influence human activity and ways humans
depend on and adapt to the environment.

Economics
A. Explain how the scarcity of resources requires people to make choices to satisfy
their wants.

 

Science
Earth and Space
C. Observe, describe and measure changes in the weather, both long and short term.
 

Mathematics
Data Analysis and Probability
A. Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.
 

 

Ohio Academic Content Standards: Abracadabra! Everyday Magic

 

Social Studies
Skills and Methods
B. Predict outcomes based on factual information.
D. Identify a problem and work in groups to solve it.

 

Language Arts
Communication: Oral and Visual
A. Use active listening strategies to identify the main idea and to gain information from oral presentations.
B. Connect prior experiences, insights and ideas to those of a speaker.

C. Follow multi-step directions.

Research

A. Generate questions for investigation and gather information from a variety of sources.

B. Retell important details and findings.

Mathematics
Geometry and Spatial Sense
A. Describe and create plane figures: circles, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram and rhombus, and identify them in the environment.
Patterns, Function and Algebra
B. Extend sequences of sounds and shapes or simple number patterns, and create and record similar patterns.

D. Model problem situations, using objects, pictures, numbers and other symbols.

Data Analysis and Probability
A. Pose questions and gather data about everyday situations and familiar objects.
B. Sort and classify objects by attributes, and organize data into categories in a simple
table or chart.
D. Describe the probability of chance events as more, less or equally likely to occur.

Mathematical Process
A. Use a variety of strategies to understand problem situations; e.g., discussing with peers, stating problems in words, modeling problems with diagrams or physical materials, identifying pattern.

C. Generate alternative strategies to solve problems.

D. Evaluate the reasonableness of predictions, estimations and solutions.

E. Explain to others how a problem was solved.

F. Draw pictures and use physical models to represent problem situations and solutions.

 

Science
Physical Sciences
B. Recognize that light, sound and objects move in different ways.
C. Recognize sources of energy and their uses.

Science and Technology
B. Explain that to construct something requires planning, communication, problem solving and tools.
 

Social Studies
Geography
A. Identify the location of the state of Ohio, the United States, the continents and oceans
on maps, globes and other geographic representations.
B. Identify physical and human features of places.

C. Explain how environmental processes influence human activity and ways humans
depend on and adapt to the environment.