DON HARRINGTON
DISCOVERY CENTER

Hunters of the Sky

Your students can experience a multi-disciplinary look at the scientific and cultural history of birds of prey. Raptors play a critical role in a wide variety of ecosystems and benefit both natural and economic systems as predators of pest species. You will never look at hawks, falcons, vultures, eagles, and owls in the same way after coming to Hunters of the Sky. Hunters of the Sky covers three interrelated themes: “Nature’s Most Remarkable Birds,” “People and Birds of Prey,” and “Celebrated Endangered Birds.”

Amazing Bodies!

Awe-inspiring wonders of life and living bodies capture the imagination of visitors and engage them in the excitement of scientific process and inquiry. This exhibit will nurture learning in life sciences by supporting learner-initiated investigations into how all living things relate. Amazing Bodies! will present the broad spectrum of life sciences from many perspectives but will connect science to everyday life using kids, cows, and dogs as content touchstones.

Space Lounge

Prepare for your journey in the Space Theater by visiting the Space Gallery. New discoveries of our little corner of the universe come to life in this cool quiet gallery. Check-out View Space from NASA, investigate the radiation around us at the Cloud Chamber, or take a look at the latest astronomical happenings right here in the Space Gallery.

Planetary Landscapes

Eleven interactive kinetic exhibits bring the motions of planetary weather systems and galactic motion within reach. This exhibit invites your students to play with the dynamic forces that shape our solar system its planets and of course, our Earth. The constantly varying patterns of Planetary Landscapes display the effects of natural phenomena such as turbulence, flow, wind, and the drive toward equilibrium.

Tiny Town

An Early Childhood center for children 4 years of age and younger, Tiny Town allows your little one the opportunity to build, slide, climb and tinker with shapes and puzzles in a protected area set up just for toddlers. A child-friendly area, Tiny Town is not child-proof – your adult supervision is still required.

ExploraZone

We’ll help build your students’ conceptual understanding of mathematics and science with our fabulous interactive experiences. Students can put their process and investigation skills to work with more than 30 new hands-on exhibits from our world-renowned partner, the Exploratorium. They’ll investigate pendulums, center of gravity, motion, and our new optics exhibits that explore how vision works and how it misleads us!

Bounce

Spheres can amaze as well as amuse us. Bounce is a joyful look into the physics and mathematics of things that are round. Whether they are rolling bouncing or flying through the air, balls can be great teachers for a number of core scientific and mathematic principles including collisions, surface area vs volume, inertia, sound reflection and refraction and many more.