Grades: 2 - 12

Class Limit: 8 - 30

Length of Program: 40 minutes

Description:

An eccentric science museum on wheels, the Physics Bus contains over two dozen hands on exhibits, with additional facilitated demonstrations outside. 

Anywhere there are curious people, we’re happy to roll up in our bus and make people say “Wow, that’s amazing!”

https://freescienceworkshop.org/physicsbus/

This performance supports the following NYS Learning Standards: 

Next Generation Learning Standards: English Language Arts: 

• Presentation of knowledge of ideas (speaking and listening) 

Mathematical Practices

• Making sense of problems and persevere in solving them 

• Reasoning abstractly and quantitatively 

• Constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others 

• Operations and algebraic thinking

• Ratios and proportional relationships

• Mathematical reasoning

Learning Standards for Physical Education: 

• Personal health and fitness 

Science and Engineering Practices: 

• Asking questions (for science) and defining problems (for engineering) 

• Planning and carrying out investigations 

• Constructing explanations (for science) and designing solutions (for engineering)

• Engaging in argument from evidence

• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information 

Learning Standards for the Arts: 

• Connecting (relate artistic ideas with societal, cultural & historical context)  

Learning Standards for Technology Education: 

• Engineering design

• History and evolution of technology

• Impacts of technology

• Management of technology

Categories: Art/ Museums / Exhibits / Science

Cost:                             

Physics Bus exhibition events are $275 per hour with a minimum of 2hrs.

Our travel cost is $2.80 per mile one-way distance from Ithaca, NY.

If the event plus our round-trip travel exceeds 8hrs, there is an additional $400 fee to support extra costs.