Category: 8th Grade

4th annual: 2027 Breaking Into STEAM Career Fair for Middle and High School Students

Breaking into STEAM aims to ignite a passion for exploration, innovation, and curiosity for careers in the STEAM fields for underserved middle and high school students.

Participants learn from local professionals, with insights on their career pathways in the STEAM fields. The students leave with practical knowledge of coursework, salary, and local opportunities to pursue a STEAM career.

  • Who: Middle and high school students and teachers, along with STEAM professionals from various local organizations.
  • When: Wednesday, May 19, 2027 | 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Arrival and departure times are staggered for school groups.
  • Where: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science, 4840 Kennett Pike, Wilmington, DE 19807

Middle and High School Teachers

Bring your class to the Breaking Into STEAM Career Fair. We have limited funding (including transportation) for qualifying schools! Registration is open for 2027

STEAM organizations and businesses: Get involved!

We’re seeking professionals in STEAM fields to bring an activity and/or tabletop display to engage with the middle school students at Breaking Into STEAM. Community partners will talk about their jobs and career paths with the students.

2027 Participating Organizations Include:

  • Check back regularly as the year progresses for updates

Girl Scout Cadette – Outdoor Art Apprentice – Workshop

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Overview

Find out how to observe and collect things outdoors that will drive your art and creativity.

1. Explore art outdoors
2. Make something!
3. Get to know—and create—sounds of nature
4. Be a nature photographer
5. Design with nature

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll have been inspired outdoors and created nature-themed art.

as noted on Girl Scout Website

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Location: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Girl Scout Workshops

Girl Scout Daisies

Girl Scout Brownies

Girl Scout Juniors

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How To Museum – Mobile Museum

Overview

Are you looking for a way to prepare your group for a museum trip Look no further! How to Museum will review what a museum is, prepare your learners for what to expect, and what’s expected of them. Help your learners love museums today!

Possible Activities (at the educator’s discretion)

  • Get to know your staff member
  • what is a museum
  • what your students and staff can expect
  • expectations when visiting
  • live animals – vs – taxidermy – vs – study skin – vs – model
  • exhibit vs gallery
  • review of our space
  • our organizations history

Standards

n/a

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: up to 1 hour
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students: 30 per session at your school/organization
  • Intended Grade Level: all ages
  • Price: $150 for one program; $140 for two programs; $125 for three or more programs.
    For destinations more than 25 miles away from the museum one-way, an additional cost will be incurred.
  • Location: at your site
Register for a Mobile Museum Outreach Program
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

Delaware & Beyond: Discovery Tour

Overview

We’ll take you on a guided tour of the museum’s new galleries, featuring a variety of ecosystems near and far. Experience hands-on science, interactive exhibits, up-close encounters with live animals, and a visit to the PaleoZone featuring Cretaceous creatures, including dinosaurs.

Stations

  • Two stops in the Regional Journey Gallery
  • 2 stops in the Global Journey Gallery
  • Connecting them all through the concept of cycles

Standards

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Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 1.5 hours
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
  • Intended Grade Level: All ages
  • Location: at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

Self-Guided: Discovery Tour

Overview

Explore the museum without a tour guide/Museum Educator, and check out the exhibits at your own pace.

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Minimum number of students: 10
  • Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
  • Intended Grade Level: All ages
  • Location: at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

Girl Scout Cadette – Trees – Workshop

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Overview

Find out all about trees: from the shade to the science, the fruit to the forest and the legends to the lumber.

1. Try some tree fun
2. Dig into the amazing science of trees
3. Make a creative project starring trees
4. Explore the connection between people and trees
5. Help trees thrive

When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll have gone to the root of what trees are all about—and branched out as a naturalist.

as noted on Girl Scout Website

Details

  • Live Animals: No
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Location: Delaware Museum of Nature and Science

Girl Scout Workshops

Girl Scout Daisies

Girl Scout Brownies

Girl Scout Juniors

Girl Scout Cadettes

Onsite Program Registration Form

Join the Scouts e-mail list

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Stones & Bones Discovery Tour

Overview

Rain or shine! Our education staff takes you on a geologic tour of the museum featuring hands-on activities with rock specimens, fossils, and science demonstrations. Students learn about the rock cycle, the geologic history of Delaware, how fossils form, and how to identify some common minerals. This is a slightly longer program and takes two hours to complete.

Stations

  • rock garden / Delaware geologic history
  • Mineral ID
  • Rock cycle passport
  • fossils

Standards

NGSS: MS-ESS1-4, MS-ESS2-1, MS-ESS2-3

Details

  • Live Animals: Yes
  • Duration: 2 hours
  • Minimum number of students: 15
  • Maximum number of students*: 125 students at the Museum, 25 per small group with Museum Educator
  • Intended Grade Level: 4-8
  • Location: at DelMNS
Register for a Discovery Tour
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Discovery Tours

Mobile Museum Outreaches

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