These Quicktime Movies offer a sneak preview of our Shows. The Programs Our interactive shows for grades K-8 are 45 minutes in length. The Franklin Institute provides classroom activities to use before and after shows. Traveling Science Shows supplement daily instruction by using equipment not generally found in classrooms. Hot and Cold Turn your students into molecules as we explore the three states of matter.
Students learn the everyday application of nitrogen in manufacturing, food production, and medicine.
An excellent choice for your first Traveling Science Show. Hot and Cold Show FAQ Flight Best done indoors in a room with a high ceiling. Explore the exciting science of flight, tracing its history from Leonardo da Vinci's time to the present. Students watch a Montgolfier hot air balloon, a rocket, and the explosion of the Hindenburg. As the forces of flight are individually presented and demonstrated, students learn how the Bernoulli effect was discovered and how the wings on an airplane provide lift.