Experiments
Located in the cafeteria. Ten fun and challenging hands-on experiments. In addition to the experiments from our partners, we'll have: Constellations, Boat Building, Bird Identification, Reaction Time, Mammal Tracks, Face Painting and DNA Insect Building Experiments.
Join the American Museum of Natural History who will be with us with a very special insect activity.
Learn about trees and more specifically about our local trees around PS29.
Get SOIL-Ed! Ever wonder how amazing soils are? The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, the shirts we wear, the buildings we live in - Soils provide all of this and more! Learn the secrets of soils so that you can identify different soils, discover how they do what they do, and who lives in them. Where do you see soils everyday? Do you want to get to know soils? Come get SOIL-ed with us!
Workshops
Located in the classrooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors and the gym.
We have something for everyone, and every age. We challenge you to visit them all!
+ POOL reclaims New York’s natural resources by opening our waters. Join them in conducting a water filtration experiment. Learn about design iteration and how water filtration works at +POOL. This workshop will be open from 11:30am-2pm.
ALBION Brooklyn and their current and former PS29 student players will assist kids in learning new ball mastery skills, and compete in a penalty shoot out. All while learning about soccer's impact on cognition, attention, and shows an increase in math and reading skills. This workshops is scheduled, with ball mastery followed by penalty shoot-outs. 11:30am 12:30pm 1:30pm 2:30pm
Join The Arctichoke Dance Company to create your own trashion (fashion made from recycled plastic).
Biomedical Science
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Emma Crowley
Have you ever wondered how people who are missing a hand can still grab and hold things? In this activity, we’ll build a pretend prosthetic hand using paper, straws, and floss to learn how real prosthetic hands help people move their fingers. You’ll get to see how science and engineering work together to help others! This workshops is scheduled, with a presentation followed by a hands-on activity. 11:30am 12:30pm 1:30pm 2:30pm
Gel plate & mono printing of Backyard Finds, Collage and Leaves Series. Using the mono-printing-relief printing method, with a collage of paper cuts, we will take randomly found tree leaves and transfer their negative space to paper. Children will be assisted through the process, from creating their “collage plates”, and using paper cuts and glue to making their monoprints. It will be a fun way to learn about different methods of printing/transferring an image.
Statue of Liberty science of metals! Create a DIY torch with foil, paint pens, and assorted craft materials while we talk about how the metal oxidizes and turns into a color over time and why it is now green on the Statue of Liberty torch we see in NYC!
DIY a paper hive – one of nature's most triumphant works of art and architecture. Make your own colorful creation and customize it with tiny scenes of your own design. Curious Jane will have *lots* of fun colorful papers to play with and simple templates to build from.
Join the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to learn about where our drinking water comes from! Explore NYC’s Water Story: From Mountain Top to Tap with a presentation and fun, hands-on activity “engineering” an aqueduct to show how our water travels from the mountains to the city. This workshops is scheduled, with a presentation followed by a hands-on activity. 11:30am 12:30pm 1:30pm 2:30pm
KoKo NYC's Inventor's Lab activity will challenge you to tinker, build, and invent a creation using recyclables, tape and scissors.
The Nature Company brings the coolest animals for a completely interactive science lesson. You get to meet the live animals, play games, and ask the animal experts questions. Sessions are scheduled: 11:45am 12:45pm 1:45pm 2:45pm
Join Penguin Coding School in playing coding games that teach local conservation using Scratch and building Lego Robots.
Join PLAYDAY in making Mixed Media Mosaic Street Signs! Create and decorate street signs, using a variety of mixed media and recycled items to create a mosaic sign.
Postcard Writing
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Learn about the SIMS Concrete Recycling Factory on Columbia Street, what our community is doing, and participate in a post-card drive.
Join Sean Casey and his rescue animals! Learn about these animals and what it means to be a pet parent. This activity is scheduled at: 11:45am 12:45pm 1:45pm
Keep your muscles strong by learning about muscle function and posture with spear.
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Join Splat Lab in creating magic rainbow snow that you can reuse over and over again for sensory and imaginative play.
Join the Textile Arts Center to learn about harvesting natural dyes from our backyard and surrounding environments. Participants of all ages will create watercolor paints using teas, flowers, and plants. Harnessing the beauty of our natural environment, painters will utilize their creativity and curiosity to explore how pH shifts can change the color of natural dyes.
Join Treasure Trunk Theatre and decorate a tote bag for shopping local in your own backyard.
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Join Urban Reports to understand and test the air pollution around you. Where does it come from, and how bad is it really?
Join VOXEL ACADEMY for a Minecraft coding project focused on hyper-local science.
Learn all about the wild birds in Brooklyn. From their feathers to how to hold a bird to what to do when you find an injured bird.
Reimagining the Brooklyn Marine Terminal: An introduction to Urban Planning Join WXY, a NYC-based urban planning and design firm, for an interactive exercise to reimagine the Brooklyn Marine Terminal (BMT). Using a scaled physical model of the site, participants will explore key urban planning concepts—including land use, transportation & mobility, sustainability, and climate adaptation. Through this hands-on activity, attendees will model different development scenarios, experiment with site layouts, and think critically about the trade-offs between land uses and the decisions that shape our cities.
Stage Shows
Located in the auditorium.
12pm: Liquid Nitrogen Show
Interactive Scientific demonstrations to introduce children to liquid nitrogen that can freeze objects in seconds! It has a boiling point of -195C or -320F! Students will learn about this "cosmic" substance and we will demonstrate its power by freezing different objects. How to fit a 2-foot string balloon into a coffee mug? What will happen to a living thing submerged in liquid nitrogen? Can a balloon inflate by itself? What is static charge and can we control it? We will find answers to all these questions! In addition, we will learn what gravity is and why it is so important for our planet.
1pm: Dry Ice Show
Interactive scientific demonstrations to introduce children to dry ice - a solid form of carbon dioxide CO2 that skips liquid state and sublimes directly into a gas. In addition together with the students we will find out what polymeric powder is and how much water it can absorb; will create snow that does not melt; will study light waves with the use of special glasses to diffract light into its component colors; will observe the formation of tornadoes and whirlpools right in the classroom; learn about vacuum, air pressure and how traveling air molecules produce sounds through vibration.
2pm: Liquid Nitrogen
Repeat of the 12pm show.
Little Explorers
Located in the Kane Street Outer Cafeteria.
From Brooklyn Play 2 Learn, the masters of math sensory play, we have a space exclusively for kids aged 2-6. With five hands-on activities, this area is perfect for younger siblings and future PS29ers. Located on the first floor, in the Kane Street Outer Cafeteria.
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Color Sorting
A sensory bin filled with different colored flowers. Kids sort flowers by color into colored bowls using different scoops to work on fine motor skills.
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Measurement
A sensory bin filled with backyard treasures and a scale. Kids can scoop and explore light vs heavy using the scale.
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Counting
A sensory bin where kids find different (fake) insects to complete an “I Spy” activity!
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Number Recognition
A sensory bin with cards hidden inside showing different ways to represent numbers 1-10 (numerals, fingers, ten frames, dots, dice, etc). The kids use scoops and tweezers to find and sort the cards into numbered containers.
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