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	Adler Planetarium The stars, planets and great images. FarOut Fridays! See throught a telescope, attend a lecture, and more! Astrovernights & Scout Programs: Plan your own troop trip during the day or camp "in" to earn merit badges and try unqiue hands-on activities at Astrovernights. Birthday Parties: Celebrate your child's birthday in celestial style at the Adler. The museum offers birthday packages for children ages 5 to 13. Astro-Science Workshop: ASW gives Chicago-area high school sophomores and juniors the opportunity to do astronomical research with telescopes and real data at Adler and Yerkes Observatory.
	Argonne National Labatory Ask a Scientist a question and get an answer online; many educacational activities.
	Art Institute of Chicago Teacher and student activities; museum exhibits and events. Art tours.
	Brookfield Zoo  Great educational activities and all those animals.
	Cernan Earth and Space Center Located at Triton College in Chicago's western suburb of River Grove. 100-seat dome theater that features star-filled planetarium shows, wraparound films, children's shows, and laser light shows, along with a Space Hall and Star Store gift shop
	Chicago Academy of Sciences Notebaert Nature Museum. "Mega Animal Mystery": May 25-Sept 5, 2005. Butterfly Haven is open year-round.
	Chicago Botanic Garden Wonderful education programs for kids, teachers, parents, community; beautiful flowers. Plant care programs.
	Chicago Children's Museum Exhibits include learning activities for toddlers to 10-year olds. Children can solve puzzles, send a postcard, do face painting, explore dinosaurs and more.
	Chicago Historical Society Subscribe to monthly newsletter and stay up-to-date with CHS programs and events. May 11, 2005: The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago. Field trips, outreach programs for your classroom, professional development programs and engaging activities for students.
	DuSable Museum of African-American History  Exhibitions, book signings, courses, films, lectures. Children and youth educational programs.
	Fermi National Accelerator Lab Tours, K-12 programs, undergraduate, and graduate programs.Public events include cultural evernts, lectures, special events, tours and programs. Ask a scientist.
	Field Museum of Natural History  Programs for students, professional development for teachers, online learning, Harris educational loan center. Dinosaur Dynasty: Discoveries from China T. rex Sue’s friends are coming to visit—all the way from China! It’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet a whole new set of dinosaurs from one of the world’s hottest spots for dinosaur research. Exhibition runs May 27, 2005—April 23, 2006. Sue, the world's largest, most complete and most famous T. rex. Man-Eaters of Tsavo, Underground Adventure,| Africa, Anthropology Collections, Butterflies, Paul Martin Collection, Natural Products Initiative, Women in Science, and more...
	Friends of the Chicago River Volunteer with Friends on Saturday, May 14, 2005. Canoe trips, tours, workdays, workshops, special events each summer. Annual Chicago River Student Congress. Conducting ambitious effort to make the Chicago River "fishable and swimmable" by the year 2020.
	Garfield Park Conservatory Beautiful exhbits, tropical paradise, desert room, children's room, dramatic new City Garden next to the Conservatory is 12 acres. Shop the city’s new open-air market, the Garfield Market. Bring your plant or just stop by and ask advice or call on weekends. Teaching garden for free demonstrations, urban agriculture, bee keeping, composting and other techniques.
	Hands on Universe (NASA) NASA's Office of Space Science (OSS) has established an education and public outreach support system at DePaul University in Chicago to serve as a network for space science education and public outreach activities for Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Functions include dentifying and establishing high-leverage alliances between educators and scientists.
	Health World Museum Children's health education museum and learning center that offers children the "hands-on" opportunity to learn more about the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle. Promotes interactive learning through state-of-the-art structured programming, exhibits and discovery zones. Sleep-overs. Summer camp.
	Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center Regional resource dedicated to residential environmental education with 15,000 acres of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore used in programs that develop an appreciation and understanding of the relationship between people and the environment along the southern shores of Lake Michigan. School Programs. Dunes Educator Institutes.
	Kohl Children's Museum Integrates play and learning through an environment that encourages curiosity, creativity and self discovery. Through fun and interactive exhibits which reflect the learning styles of children ages birth through eight, Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago provides an atmosphere in which children are able to explore and respond to a Museum made specifically for them!
	Lincoln Park Zoo  Education department consists of 15 educators and some 200 docents give workshops for teachers, Traveling Zoo visits to nursing homes and classes designed for audiences with special needs to docent talks and literacy programs. Zebra Online offers 36 games and activities for every student of wildlife. Designed for both individual users (one student/one computer) or teams of up to four students, each activity has at least one off-line extension activity for an entire class to complete.
	Millennium Park  24.5 acre park in downtown Chicago provides world-class art, music, architecture and landscape design. Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States; interactive Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa; contemporary Lurie Garden designed by the team of Kathryn Gustafson, Piet Oudolf and Robert Israel; and Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate sculpture.
	Museum of Science and Industry  Programs for teachers and students. Apollo 8 Command Module, Body Worlds: The Anatomical Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle, The Coal Mine, AIDS: The War Within, The Chick Hatchery, Enterprise, The Farm, Flight 727, The Great Train Story, The Henry Crown Space Center, The Lunar Module, Mercury Space Capsule, NetWorld, Omnimax Theater and more.
	Project Exploration  Is the living classroom that involves the public and students, especially city kids and girls, in scientific discovery. Has developed a three-pronged approach to bridging the gap between research scientists and the public: Youth Development Initiatives; Services for Schools and Teachers; and Public Exhibitions and Online Initiatives. three core programs: Sisters4Science, a weekly after school program for minority middle-and high-school girls that combines science exploration with leadership development. Junior Paleontologists where every year, the program immerses a dozen Chicago Public School students ages 12-17 into the world of paleontology and dinosaur fieldwork in the West. Dinosaur Giants Team trains high-school students to serve as docents to the public at new science exhibits - and enables them to fulfill service learning hours towards their high school graduation requirements.
	Science Tech Hands on Museum Educational programs allow students to visualize, experiment with, and understand science through hands-on discovery. Topics:: Information Technology (Communications), Energy and Environment, Outdoor Science, Young Discovery, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences. Ovenight science class Camp-Ins for small and large groups of campers in grades 1-8. Summer camp. Pre-school and primary teacher workshops.
	Shedd Aquarium  Aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. Fact sheets about plants, animals, people and places in English and Spanish. Lesson plans, explorer's guides. Resources by: topic, concept, grade level, Illinois Learning Standards. Restaurant provides a beautiful view of Chicago's skyline.
	Stillman Nature Center Wnvironmental education programs located on 80 acres of woods, lake, and meadow. Stillman's pond community is home to everything from tiny duckweed to painted turtles that bask on a fallen log. It is the ultimate hands-on experience for students to sift through pond mud in search of insects and other aquatic life. Stereoscopes are available for older students. Teachers that have pH and/or dissolved oxygen kits are invited to bring them along and test the water. Stillman's marsh is thick with cattails and home to waterfowl and muskrats. Grades: 1st - college.Seasons available: Spring, Summer, Fall. Does not have an indoor visitor center.
	Teachers Academy for Math & Science Stresses hands-on math and science activities and lessons, which are aligned to ISBE Learning Standards, as well as the standards of the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics and the National Science Foundation. Do not emphasize any particular textbook series. Programs: 1. Academy Comprehensive Professional Development Program, 2. Academy/CMSI Curriculum Support Program, 3. After-School Program - Supplementary Education Services, 4. Science Resource Center, 5. 21st Century Community Learning Center.