Spring Break Science 2025

Fill your days with science fun!

Get an activity guide with exploration ideas for at home and at the museum.

Drop in to see movies and discover themed activities and explorations.

 

Discover: 

• Monday: Whale Adaptations 

• Tuesday: Sun Science

• Wednesday: Aurora

• Thursday: Dinos & Fossils

• Friday: Moose

 

Included with museum admission.

Museum members get in free!

 

Presented with funding from Neal Brown Museum Education Support Fund.

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Links for at home explorations:

Whales

• Make Arctic Food Chain nesting creatures.
• Discover baleen whales and play a Whale and Krill Tower Game.
• Make a Model Umiak.

 Sun Science

• Discover our solar system, starting with the Sun, on the UAF Planet Walk.
• Build a Model Solar Probe and discover more about the Parker Solar Probe.
• Find dozens of Sun Activities on our Virtual Museum.

 Aurora

• Follow the Aurora Forecast and watch the All Sky Live Cameras. Go outside and watch if conditions are right!
• Watch Kiuguyat: The Northern Lights to hear how some of Alaska’s Indigenous peoples describe the aurora.
• Paint the Aurora with Ice Cubes. Find more activities on the Virtual Museum!

 Dinos & Fossils

• Watch Thalattosaur: Racing the Tide  to see UAMN paleontologists excavate an ancient marine reptile.
• Make your own Impression Fossil with clay.
• Create Ice Age Puppets and stage a prehistoric puppet show!

 Moose

• Create Alaska State Symbols including our state mammal, the moose, for a shadow play.
• Watch the Party Moose episode of Molly of Denali from PBS.
• Join us for Family Day: Moose on March 22 from noon-4pm at the museum!