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Preschool classrooms of 10 or more children can schedule a one-hour experience combining STEAM-based activities in Firefly Landing followed by self-guided exhibit exploration. Young learners will dive into a world of creativity, science and history through hands-on, interactive learning.

Explore the museum at your own pace! With a self-guided field trip, you and your toddler, preschool and PreK classrooms of eight or more students (not including chaperones or teachers/teacher assistants) can explore the galleries independently while taking in the art, science and history of Indiana.

Can’t make it to the museum? We’ll bring the museum to you! Our 60-minute outreach programs offer interactive story times and hands-on STEAM activities that can be customized to match the themes of our in-museum programs.

Students will be inspired by the story of a kid inventor to engineer their very own, multi-part machines. We will use the engineering design process to create and build using everyday objects. Next, we'll introduce simple robots that students will use to explore basic coding by incorporating these robots into their machines. Through this hands-on STEAM-based project, your students will become engineers as they learn to design, create, test and collaborate.

Step back in time as students are transported to an Indiana of the past where they will be introduced to many Ice Age animals as they touch and observe real fossils and fossil casts of the ancient creatures. They will participate in an interactive story time and hands-on STEAM-based projects as they uncover the Indiana of the past.

Explore the basics of paleontology, archaeology and biology with the hands-on exploration of real objects and tools. Students will interact with artifacts and objects to excavate, investigate and draw conclusions about the world around them based on what they observe. The program also includes a themed story time, sensory and art activities inspired by the natural world.