These self-guided pathways are designed to help students focus on learning while also allowing them to choose which exhibits to learn from. Sometimes this more open-ended approach is beneficial.

Scavenger hunts are great ways to help students find connections between exhibits and connect science principles to phenomena. You might ask your students to describe the exhibits they find rather than just listing them.

Click here to see all the exhibits available at the museum.

Here is a list of exhibits:

• Write down five new things you learn from your experience with the exhibits
• Pick any 3 of these, find out what, if any, connections there are between them.
• What are the 3? Why would you group them together?
• Write down 5 results of playing with exhibits that surprised you.
• Why were you surprised?
• Write down 5 results that you had already expected or suspected would happen. Why did you expect this?
• Make a connection between 2 exhibits/demonstrations that are from totally different sections of the museum. Then do this again with 2different exhibits. What's the connection?
• Look for 10 exhibits that demonstrate phenomena that you have noticed in the natural world (outside a museum!). Describe where else you have noticed this phenomena, under what conditions, etc.
• Write down 2 exhibits that involve your sense of smell, touch, sight, and hearing -2 for each of these senses. What did you learn about each sense through using the exhibit?