Classes grade 8 and up can reserve the Laser Lab for a hologram demonstration and watch as a hologram is created right before their eyes. Changing Exhibits Lab For the first time this year, teachers can reserve a lab session thematically tied to OMSI's featured exhibits. OMSI Educators will guide your students through a variety of hands-on activities and experiments that reinforce the educational concepts presented in the Changing Exhibits Hall. For a schedule of exhibit topics, see page 13. Life Science Lab Explore the comparative anatomy between the animals in our lab and the human anatomy presented in the Life Science Hall.
Students also can use our computer software programs to perform virtual dissections.
Watershed Lab Design, build and test model streams for erosion and salmon habitat issues, discover the hidden life of ponds and rivers with a video-microscope, and see live salmon and native salamanders. Particular emphasis is placed on current regional issues, including wild fish stocks, agricultural irrigation and hydro-electric power. Vernier Technology Lab Explore modern technology with the many computers, oscilloscopes, and other electronics in the Vernier Technology Lab. Paleo Lab Take an up-close look at a 65 million year old Triceratops, a whale fossil, the largest tortoise fossil ever found in Oregon and many other smaller specimens in the Paleo Lab, the most accessible lab of its kind in the country. Students can ask questions about the methods of paleontology as they watch trained staff and volunteers clean fossils from plaster casts right before their eyes.