Children's Museum of the Highlands

To help you as a teacher decide what the museum has to offer to your class, we have listed the different areas of learning that are available and which exhibit uses that concept.

Archaeology

• The Way We Were

Art appreciation

• Art Show

Career awareness

• Doctor's Office
• Fire Station
• Grocery Store
• Post Office
• Bank
• Theater

Cause and effect

• Newton's Cradle
• Waterworks
• Golf Ball Raceway

Climbing

• The Amazing Maze
• Trolley

Colors

• Post Office
• Spell It Out
• Imagination Station

Computer literacy

• Computer Area
• Bank

Cooperative interaction

• Note Nook 
• Waterworks
• Bank
• Post Office
• Doctor's Office
• Grocery Store

Creativity

• House of Design
• Sand Pendulum
• Face Painting
• Mask Area
• Theater

Cutting

• Mask area

Decision-making

• Golf Ball Raceway
• The Amazing Maze
• Art Show

Electricity

• Joe's Garage
• Pedal Power

Experimentation with different types of music

• Note Nook

Florida history

• The Way We Were
• Orange You Glad We Live in Florida
• WKID TV Station

Gears

• Joe's Garage

Geography

• WKID TV Station
• Travel Agency

Gravity

• Sand Pendulum
• Newton's Cradle
• Golf Ball Raceway

Gross and fine motor skills

• House of Design
• The Way We Were
• Sand Pendulum
• Bubble Machine
• Newton's Cradle
• The Amazing Maze
• Mask Table

Hand - eye coordination

• Note Nook
• Video Racer
• Computer Area
• Mask Table

Imagination

• All Exhibits

Increased self confidence

• Amazing Maze

Language and reading

• Word Wall
• Travel Agency
• Grocery Store
• Computer Area
• Book Area
• Sniff It
• Spell It Out

Listening skills

• Speed of Sound
• Computer Area

Logical thinking

• Golf Ball Raceway
• The Amazing Maze

Magnets

• Joe's Garage

Manual dexterity

• Note Nook

Math

• Bank
• Grocery Store
• Post Office

Measurements and shapes

• Speed of Sound
• Imagination Station

Mechanics of music production

• Note Nook

Memory

• The Way We Were

Mirror images

• Bubble Machine
• Make Up Table
• Mask Table
• The Theater Area

Money

• Bank
• Grocery Store
• Post Office

Music Appreciation

• Note Nook

Newton's law

• Newton's Cradle

Olfactory discrimination

• Sniff It

Patience

• Pedal Power
• Bubble Machine

Perseverance

• Pedal Power

Physics of motion

• Sand Pendulum

Positive reinforcement

• Computer Area

Pulleys

• Bubble Machine
• Bank

Rhythm

• Note Nook

Role playing

• WKID TV Station
• Grocery Store
• Fire Station
• Bank
• Doctor's Office
• Theater

Self presentation

• WKID TV Station

Shape identification

• House of Design

Share and take turns

• All exhibits

Sorting

• Grocery Store
• Bank
• Post Office

Sound

• The Speed of Sound
• Telephone Tubes

Spatial relationship

• House of Design

Surface tension

• Bubble Machine

Texture

• House of Design

Tone discrimination

• Note Nook

Transportation

• Trolley
• Airplane
• Pedal Power
• Orange You Glad You Live in Florida

Travel

• Travel Agency
• Airplane
• Trolley
• Imagination Station

Visual discrimination

• Computer Area
• The Amazing Maze

Water flow

• Waterworks
• Bubble Machine

Weather

• WKID TV Station
• Orange You Glad You Live In Florida

Weights and measures

• Bank
• Grocery Store
• Post Office