Grade Level Expectation Resources for exhibits found at the
T.R.E.E. House Children’s Museum

Pin Screen

Press into the pin screen to feel the pins move around your shape and create an impression of you!  Things to try:  Step into the screen to make a whole body impression.  Use your hands to shape letters, creating a message in the pins.  Grab a plastic animal from a nearby exhibit to make an impression of it.  Please, no feet on the pin screen!

First Grade
What is Volume? 

Junior League Market

Kids can learn lots in this kid sized market! Things to try:  Shop for items from each food group for a balanced diet. Plan a meal and head to the register to check out. Add up your grocery items for a total when you check out.  Set a dollar amount for your shopping trip to teach money management.

Preschool-Kindergarten
Grocery Store Worksheet

1st-2nd Grade
At the Grocery Store Math
At the Grocery Store: Addition and Subtraction
Multiplying and Subtracting at the Grocery Store

Shadow Room

How the Shadow Room Works:  Light travels in a straight line.  When your body blocks light, a shadow is formed.  The light sensitive paper on this wall absorbs the light from the flash, leaving your shadow on the wall where no light was able to reach.

Things to Try: See how your shadow imprint gets larger the closer you get to the flash of light.  The closer to the light you are, the more light your body blocks from the wall,

The farther away you get from the light, the less light your body blocks from the wall.  Try standing against the wall to create a shadow exactly the size and shape of you!

Use your hands to create shadow shapes against the wall.  Can you make a dog shape?  A bird shape?  Make a V-shape by lying on the floor with your legs spread against the wall.  Use your arms to mimic the mouth of an alligator.  Have fun!

Preschool-Kindergarten
My Shadow Poem

2nd Grade
Shadows
Learn Shadow Science Activity

3rd Grade
Light and Shadow

All Ages
How To Make Shadow Puppets With Your Hand

Bernoulli Blower

What?  A ball floats in a fast-moving stream of air.  A scientist named Daniel Bernoulli helped us to understand how this works.

Why?  As air passes through the fan in the base and through the tube on top, it goes faster. According to Bernoulli’s explanation, a stream of fast moving air will have lower pressure than the still air surrounding it.  The still air surrounding the air stream creates a “wall” of high pressure that helps to keep the ball from falling.

Curious?  Try slowly pulling the ball out of the air stream.  Can you feel the pull of the low pressure zone? What happens when you put more than one ball inside the air stream?

Bernoulli’s Principle for Kids Video

Bubble Tire

Stand inside the Bubble Tire, pull and see the bubble swirl up around you!  Notice the movement of the bubble with the influence of air and motion. Can you see the rainbows in your bubbles?  Ever wonder why bubbles pop?  When a bubble forms, gravity pulls the liquid downward, making the liquid at the bottom thicker than the liquid at the top. The liquid bends and reflects light, creating a rainbow, until the liquid at the bottom gets too heavy. Then your bubble pops! You and your child will experience physics hands-on and close-up as the bubbles reflect light and create rainbows. Explore the magic of surface tension as by seeing how big a bubble can stretch and by trying to change its shape.

Preschool-Kindergarten
Bubble Observations

1st-5th Grade
Surface Tension and Bubbles

Building Table

Building with Lincoln Logs and magnets!  Build a log cabin, fort, or create a magnetic sculpture with only your imagination as the limit!  Problem solving, planning and design, and social skills are also developed as children work together or launch out to build their own creations.

Preschool-Kindergarten
Which Items are Magnetic? Lesson Plan
10 Things Children Learn from Block Play

Capital One Bank Exhibit

Children can practice money recognition, counting and basic math skills, and learn about saving and spending. Using training money from a real bank, children can pretend to be bank tellers or customers to make deposits and withdrawals in a miniature bank branch.

1st-2nd Grade
“Pot ‘o Coins” Money Counting Lessons
Money Mania

KLAX Kid TV Station

Kids can report on what they have seen and heard in this exhibit, asking the pertinent questions to make up a story: Who? What happened? When? Where? Why? How?  Interview a guest or give the weather report, but the story is up to you!

Preschool-4th Grade

Weather Reporter Lesson Plan
Weather Report
Weather Cards
Basic Journalism
Interview a Friend!

Pretend Play

Kids can dress up here in a variety of costumes which allow them to reimagine themselves as someone else.  Try on the clothes of an airline pilot, a chef, a princess, a doctor and slip into their roles.  Or try out a different culture with traditional costumes from Mexico, Ghania, Nigeria, Japan or India!

Preschool-Kindergarten
Who Works In Our Community?

Rapides Parish Sheriff Car

Keep Rapides Parish safe as a sheriff’s deputy!  Flip on the flashing lights and call for backup on the CB radio!

Preschool-1st Grade
Community Helpers: Police Officers

Eagle Exhibit

• Climb into the life sized eagle’s nest. What do eagles eat?  Check the nest bottom to see what bones have been left behind.  How many eggs are usually in a clutch?
• What do eagles sound like? Press each button to hear the peal or sound an eagle makes.
• The wingspan of a bird is measured from the tip of outstretched wing to the other. Eagles’ wingspans can measure from 5.9 to 7.5 feet across!  Stand against the eagle on the wall to measure your wingspan!

Preschool-First Grade
American Bald Eagle Color Page
Color the Bald Eagle

2nd-5th Grade
All About the American Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle Facts