Most demonstrations and activities occur from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. unless noted as scheduled.

• Arctic/Antarctic Adventures: Discover the relationship between sea levels and melting ice sheets with an interactive activity! See a real ice core from Antarctica and the unique algae that live under the ice.
• Association for Women Geoscientists – Learn about the different minerals that you can find in your home, test your building skills in our earthquake challenge, and visit our future scientist photo booth!
• Augmented Reality Sandbox: Understanding topographic maps – This sandbox combines real sand with virtual reality to show how 2-D topographic maps show the 3-D shape of the land. Make your own surface in the sandbox and watch as the virtual reality projection mirrors your model. Then, make it rain in the sandbox and see how virtual water flows in your model.
• Deep-sea Drilling – Discover how scientists study the bottom of the ocean and sample your own “drill core” from our tasty ocean floor model.
• Event Information Station and Passport Prizes – Grab a passport and collect stamps as you explore– then receive a prize for your completed passport!
• Fossil Dig – Pick out a fossil or bring your own and have Florida Museum paleontologists identify them.
• Make Your Own Earthquake – Learn about how, why and where earthquakes happen, and then make your own earthquake to find out how you measure on the Richter scale.
• Mineral Sands of Florida – Explore how important resources are mined and recovered from ancient sands right here in North Central Florida.
• Meteorites or Meteor-wrongs – Meteorites can and do strike the Earth. Check out these space rocks and see how they differ from other rocks found on Earth. Learn how to identify and distinguish real meteorites from look-a-likes.
• Oil Spill and Cleanup – Investigate how chemistry is used to clean up these environmental catastrophes.
• Paleomagnetism – Rocks contain their own compasses, and they don’t always point north. See how scientists use Earth’s magnetism to reconstruct how the continents have moved through time.
• The Power of Rivers: How the Land Gets its Shape – Use wave tanks and other interactive models to explore water’s power in shaping our ever-changing environment.
• Rock Drilling – See how geologists use the drilling process to obtain core samples from hard rock as the first step in determining a past continent’s magnetic direction and location on Earth.
• Secrets of Sand – Take an up-close look under a microscope to see the secrets of sand revealed.
• The Rock Cycle – Discover how rocks are continuously recycled on Earth into new rocks and learn about the different environments in which they form.
• Tools of a Geologist – Learn why geologists are the real “Inspector Gadgets” and bring your minerals and rocks to be identified.
• Volcanoes (periodic eruptions scheduled on the hour and half-hour starting at 10:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m.) – Participate in ongoing interactive demonstrations and investigate why some volcanoes erupt explosively while others often do not, but watch out – ours is ready to blow.