Bring your group to the National Atomic Museum and create your own unique Learning Adventures by combining any of the following three in-house programs.
To make a reservation, call 505.245.2137 ext. 103 or view our online booking procedures.
I. LEARNING ADVENTURES TOURS
Story Telling Tour
Informal tour led by someone who was there.
Docent Guided Tour
Formalized tour lead by museum certified staff.
Self Guided Tour
We provide your students with literacy-based self-discovery
guide books.
II. LEARNING ADVENTURES CLASSROOM PROGRAMS
III. LEARNING ADVENTURES ASSESSMENTS
(CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE SYSTEM —CPS)
I. LEARNING ADVENTURES TOURS
A. STORYTELLER
(25 maximum)
Our Docent and Volunteer team includes many folks who lived the times. Let them tell their story as they transport you and your students to another time and place.
MANHATTAN PROJECT
Experience the Manhattan Project from those who were part of the top secret mission.
NM Standard: Social Studies, Science (All Ages)
DECISION TO DROP
Learn both the public and scientific communities stand on the decision
to drop the world's first atomic bomb.
NM Standard: Social Studies, Science (All Ages)
CULTURE OF THE COLD WAR ERA
Explore the culture of the Cold War Era with people who experienced
it first hand.
NM Standard: Social Studies, Science (All Ages)
B. DOCENT GUIDED
(25 maximum)
Our Docent Guides are schooled and museum certified in the following subject areas in order to provide you with a more formal educational tour.
NUCLEAR MEDICINE/QUACKERY
Learn about positive uses of radiation in medicine, MRI's, X-Rays, the human
body, and medical quackery.
NM Standard: Science, Social Studies (Grades 6-12)
POWER UP
The Nuclear Industry: Pros & Cons
Learn about the production of Nuclear
Energy in the world and its implications for tomorrow's community.
NM Standard: Science and Technology
(Grades 6-12)
RADIATION
Learn what's hot and what's not in the world around you as you learn about
both natural and man made radiation.
NM Standard: Science (Grades 4-12)
MEN & WOMEN OF PHYSICS
Meet the key players of physics in this special Year of Physics tour.
NM Standard: Social Studies, Science (Grades 4-12)
C. SELF GUIDED SEARCH & LEARN TOUR
(45 maximum)
We can provide your students with bilingual literacy-based, self-discovery guidebooks.
Click here to download the mStories self-discovery guidebook »
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II. LEARNING ADVENTURES PROGRAMS
Our Classroom Learning Adventures are standards-based fun! These are interactive
programs presented by our staff educators and museum certified docents.
(15-Student Minimum, 35 Maximum)
PROGRAM OFFERINGS INCLUDE:
THE DECISION TO DROP
Let us help you with your New Mexico history course requirement. Your
students will get an introduction to critical problem solving by role
play in this program. Students will work through historical issues surrounding
the decision to drop the atomic bomb and make group decisions based
on historical facts. Students will also weigh the pros and cons of the
decision to drop based on scientific facts and will advise those who
will make the decision. Primary source material will be used for this
program.
NM Standards: Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts (Grades 8-12)
MANHATTAN PROJECT—SECRETS & SPIES
Secrecy, espionage and science all proved crucial in the race for the
atomic bomb. How did secrecy and science work together? Transport your
students back to Los Alamos Labs in 1940, into the heart of the Manhattan
Project to experience Secrets & Spies for themselves.
NM Standards: Social Studies, Science, and Language Arts (Grades
5-11)
NUCLEAR MEDICINE—SEEING IS HEALING
How is nuclear medicine saving lives in the world today? Students will
learn some of nuclear medicines' applications as well as get a chance
to see how the theories behind nuclear medicine work in an interactive
environment.
N.M. Standards: Science, and Social Studies (Grades 6-12)
TASTE OF SCIENCE
Challenge your students' minds through presentations about space science,
the magic of magnets, and radiation in the world around them through
presentation and interactive activities. This program can travel to
local schools.
NM Standards: Science, Technology, and Social Studies (Grades 4-8)
ZOOMZONE™
ZOOM on into the ZOOMzone located right here at the National Atomic
Museum! Experiment like a scientist, solve problems like a mathematician
and build like an engineer with with cool, all NEW hands-on activities
when you schedule a program with us. Check our special
events page for special theme programs.
NM Standards: Science and Math (Grades K-6)
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III. LEARNING ADVENTURES ASSESSMENTS (CPS)
Our Classroom Performance System is an interactive learning environment where
the teacher sets up a lesson in the CPS software, hooks a data projector
to the computer, and students participate in the lesson through the use
of remote controlled keypads. This is an interactive way to assess your
students' knowledge of their National Atomic Museum experience. You can
provide us with a CPS compatible test before your trip, or choose from
one of our subject and grade appropriate standardized exams which can
be emailed and imported directly into most digital grade book programs.
Allow an extra 30 minutes for your visit.
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