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In the following sections you will find information on how to organize a Family Science Night at your school, various activities that you can use at these events, explorer’s notebooks, and take home kits. Feel free to download any of these documents for your use and make any desired modifications. Please send us an email with your comments when you use the materials.

What is a Family Science Night and how can your school organize one?

The following link provides detailed information on what a Family Science Night is, reasons why to host one at your school, and some basic guidelines to follow in organizing a Family Science Night. If you have any questions or need additional information feel free to contact us.

Family Science Night Overview

Earth Science Activities

The links below contain handouts of the activities that have been used in past Earthmobile Family Science Nights. We are in the process of developing Oceanography activities. Please check back in late Spring of 2006 for these handouts.


Natural Resources

 

Geology

Meteorology

 

Astronomy

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Oceanography

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Explorer's Notebook

Earthmobile provides guided questions for students to answer as they complete each of the stations at the Family Science Nights. Enclosed are the notebooks that have been created for our events.
 

Take Home Kit

In the Fall of 2004, Earthmobile started developing Take Home Kits for participating Family Science Night students. These kits contain activities related to the topic of the event. So far two Take Home Kits have been developed, please click on the links below to see them.

 
 


This project is funded
by the National Science Foundation.

 

 

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This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant #GEO0303139. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).