Happy New Year! Sending best wishes for a play-filled, STEAM-tastic 2020 🥳
Leash Training Elmer!
We are slowing leash training Elmer. As you can see, Elmer is very food motivated!
Last chance for Medieval Mayhem!
Last chance for Medieval Mayhem!
CMOST staff members have a lot of patience!
Make it and Taste it - Learn how to make butter.
Today during Farm to Museum Day visitors got the chance to help our educators make butter from scratch.
Skyline Toolbox Landspeeder
Visitors were able to build a working landspeeder with Skyline toolbox. Visit our Play Space to see what you can create!
CMOST Staff were joined by students from Susan O'Dell Taylor Middle School for A Day In the Life of the Hudson River. Approximately 5,500 children participated in this event along the length of the estuary. The children performed a variety of experiments to determine water quality, measure tides and currents, and observe the river. We even saw some awesome fish and a bald eagle. What a great day!
Campers got their cool science demo. #scienceyoucaneat.
CMOST on Spectrum News
VP Catherine Gilbert had a fun chat with Julie Chapman on Spectrum News Capital Region this morning
CMOST will be open 10-5 everyday during Spring Break week 4/17/17-4/23/17!
Chemistry fun during this morning's Science Cart activity.
Time Warner Cable News: Students explore Hudson River Ecosyste...
We had a great day yesterday exploring "a Day in the Life of the Hudson River" with students from Abram Lansing Elementary school at Schodack Island State Park.
A sneak peek into our #DayofPlay activity
Join our educator, Allison, as she shows you her technique for looping rubber bands to attach dowels together in this really fun and creative building activity. Join us at The Musuem on Friday for our #DayofPlay activity and we'll all build great structures together as we put on our engineering hats!
We're enjoying our Sunday #tinkering with #littleBits powered Lego cars. Check out what our visitors made!
Join us Saturday at 1:00 PM for #MakeItTakeIt LED stickers and make your own #DIY circuit drawings.
Our camper are putting their #stem skills to the test. They'll be doing a live demo in The Museum today at 3:30 PM. Consider stopping by to check them out and all that they're learning this week.
Ed staff is busy prepping for Thursday's #homeschool #science enrichment program "Earth Science Investigators." There's still time to sign up! Call us at 518-235-2120.
We love #reptiles around here, it's just who we are. If you do too, then visit Operation WILD and check out all the different reptiles in our living animal collection. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php.
Also, check out this super neat 3D dinosaur the CNSE CMOST education team made! If you'd like to see this as an activity, let us know!
Check out one of our White Catfish swimming around in our Living Hudson River exhibit. Do you know what an estuary is? It is a body of water where fresh water and salt water meet. However, the White Catfish in this tank is from a freshwater estuary, which does not contain saltwater. #hudsonriver #fish
Can anyone guess what the State fish is? We'll give you a couple of hints: we have them here at The Museum as part of our Living Hudson River exhibit and you can watch them in this video (they just got fed so they're pretty excited.)
http://www.cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Mealworms anyone? Actually, I think we'd just stick with the lettuce, but that's not the only staple in the diets of the animals in our Operation WILD collection. Watch as Jamie, a museum educator, explains feeding time at our museum. Stop by for a visit and learn all about plants, animals and natural resources in our Nature Place - we'll have an Animals Live! show today at 11:30 AM: http://www.cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Our museum educators frequently get asked if snakes drink water & in fact, they do! Watch our Honduran Milk Snake down some. Fun fact about the Milk Snake: it gets its name from a myth that they can milk cows! The truth is that they just like to hang out in barns. Come meet this snake, who is part of our living animal collection in Operation WILD. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Did you spot the snake?! If you're looking for something to do this weekend, stop by on Sunday at 1PM for our Animal Spotlight program at Operation WILD and participate in activities to learn more about our interesting inhabitants. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
Today's Make It & Take It-Mini-Bots was a lot of fun. Twenty-five boys and girls joined me to build their very own little robots, that they took home with them. Check it out:
Think like an engineer and rev up your problem-solving skills! Our Magnetic Ball Wall allows you to construct pathways that intersect and have ball races with siblings and friends, all while challenging yourself to create new configurations. Fun for all ages!
Watch our Box #Turtles munch on one of their favorite meals! You might be surprised to learn they enjoy some of the same foods as us. Join us this Sunday (4/12) at 1:00 PM for our Animal Spotlight to find out more about Box Turtles. Our daily schedules can be found here: http://cmost.org/plan_a_visit/detailed_calendar.php
Behind the Scenes @ CNSE CMOST. We learned a new trick - do you know how to make a cap pop off an empty water bottle? http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Water-Bottle-Cap-Pop-off-with-Air-Pressure
FYI: Never, ever aim the bottle toward your face, toward others, or toward animals. Always perform science activities, experiments, and tricks with adult supervision. We want science to be fun and safe!
Have you been to an Animal Spotlight or an Animals Live show at our museum? If not, then you're missing out! Learn interesting science facts, like how to identify if a turtle is male or female (females have flat bottom shells, males are concave) & ask us animal questions (at the museum or in the comments).
Don't forget to share your pics with us! We'd love to hear from you. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
#animalevent #turtles
We're having lots of fun at #superheroscience and are learning what's nano about a lot of superhero superpowers! Listen to Carlie, a CNSE CMOST educator, explain super resiliency using a spring made of memory metal. And don't forget to share your #superheroscience photos with us! Admission is free all day.
What animal can climb trees without legs? Well, we met one who can today at #superheroscience! Can anyone guess what kind of snake she is?
Have you visited our Living Hudson River exhibit? Come & explore the unique environment of one of America's most historically significant tidal rivers. Our 75 foot long Living Indoor Hudson River exhibit allows visitors to travel from the river's source in the Adirondacks all the way to its end, the Atlantic Ocean.
If you can't come to the museum, let us come to you! We have lots of exciting outreach programs, like Our River, Our Responsibility - a hands-on investigation of the Hudson River and its watershed. http://cmost.org/education/CMOST%20in%20the%20Community.php
Play is how your toddler learns about the world, and it also happens to be the tool we use to teach. Our museum is designed to learn by doing, allowing children to acquire STE(a)M skills by encouraging them to investigate, observe, analyze, and build in a pressure-free environment. So stop by on Wednesdays from 1 - 5PM for Toddler Explore & More Time. All museum activities during that time are geared toward preschool aged children. Explore, discover, and imagine with us!
http://www.cmost.org/plan_a_visit/detailed_calendar.php
& check out My Parent & Me, a five-week session that allows toddlers & parents to explore science together: http://www.cmost.org/camps/parentme.php
Encourage Your Children to Wonder! Camp is a Valuable Experience That Can Help Improve Cognitive and Social Skills, and Boost Academic Performance.
The video shows a CNSE CMOST educator testing an activity for our April Break Camp: Circuits, Circuits, Get Your Circuits!
Join us! Register today. http://cmost.org/camps/vacation_camp.php
A young explorer emerging from the Beaver Lodge at our Hudson River Exhibit. Visit the museum to learn about the ecology of the river and how it serves as an important natural resource for birds, including Bald Eagles & Osprey. http://cmost.org/exhibits/nature_space.php
How your children spend their out-of-school time is important. Research from The National Academies Press shows that "informal STEM learning can support major student outcomes in STEM education." One of the ways you can help your children achieve this success is by enrolling them in #camp.
Whether it's for #summer or school vacation, CNSE CMOST offers #science camps that are packed with experiments, projects, crafts & games. This April, we'll explore #nanotechnology, motion, and circuits using Elenco Electronics, Inc. and littleBits
Join us for a day or the whole week!
http://www.cmost.org/camps/vacation_camp.php
And check out what we learned in February!
