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Our knowledgeable team of certified teachers are ready to deliver standards-aligned, hands-on learning experiences that support your curriculum.
During our one-hour lessons, students engage with the material through various activities, rotating through stations that help reinforce their understanding and concepts.
Our outreach lessons serve a variety of learner settings, including K-8 classrooms, homeschool co-ops, out of school time providers, faith-based organizations, scouting troops, clubs, and enrichment or remediation programs.
"The CDM experience was awesome. The kids truly loved it & were very engaged :) We utilize CDM every year & rotate themes."
DETAILS
• $150/lesson plus travel fee
• Lessons are 60 minutes long
• Maximum number of students per lesson varies per grade level
Reservations are required at least TWO weeks in advance. Availability is very limited and reservations fill quickly. To request a lesson for the 2025-2026 school year, please fill out the form at the button below to request to book.
REQUEST TO BOOKIf you have further questions, please contact the Reservations Department at ssw@cdmfun.org or 423-648-6040.
An interactive community event with 9 exciting activities serving up to 300 participants.
FAMILY NIGHTSDevelopmentally appropriate learning experiences engage three- and four-year-old children.
Develop your learner's curiosity about things in the sky. In this lesson, learners investigate the sun, moon, and stars and grow their understanding of the universe.
Learners will explore the dynamics of light, engage in shadow play, experiment with shadow puppets, and trace shadows, leading to a stronger awareness of how light creates shadows.
Children will observe, graph, create and imagine while they look closely at insects and arachnids and their life cycles during this lesson.
Children will become architects and engineers as they create pathways for objects to travel. Using the engineering design process, learners will test different materials and compare and contrast results.
Mix, fizz, spin, splat! Learners will explore color theory in a variety of modalities and retell a familiar story about how primary colors make secondary and tertiary colors.
Explore the different sections of the orchestra while investigating pitch, volume, and rhythm. They will experiment with the sounds everyday objects make and be encouraged to play real instruments.
How do our senses help us relate and respond to the world around us? Learners expand their understanding of the five senses and their importance through immersive play.
Investigate weather and the seasons using storytelling props and scientific tools. Learners classify types of weather and experience a windy day with our portable wind tunnel!
Excite and educate your students in grades K-2 with these hands-on instructional lessons.
Explore different forms of energy—such as static, current, solar, kinetic, potential, sound, magnetic, and heat—and investigate their effects on objects by modeling energy transfer through circuits and experimenting with balanced and unbalanced forces.
Learn about nutrition by eating a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, explore the effects of exercise on the body, and strengthen awareness of healthy hygiene practices.
Evaluate the effects of push and pull on objects, investigate the six classes of simple machines, and apply them to real-world situations.
Use appropriate tools to make observations, develop and refine design ideas, and explore cause-and-effect relationships through investigations with magnets.
Recognize and apply symmetry and pattern, compare and recreate artistic characteristics from various cultures and time periods, and create a unique mask using diverse art elements and techniques.
Understand the processes that form rocks and minerals, differentiate between living and nonliving organisms, and test the physical attributes of rocks.
A limited number of lessons are available at no cost through a partnership with Vulcan Materials Company.
Classify animals based on their characteristics and survival needs, observe hereditary traits shared between young and their parents, and explore how animals adapt to their habitats.
Explore the phases of the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, and precipitation—use meteorological tools to measure weather characteristics and patterns, and compare Earth's natural cycles such as erosion, weather events, and seasons.
Classify objects as transparent, translucent, opaque, or reflective; demonstrate cause and effect on various materials to observe resulting waves; and create and analyze wave patterns.
Students in grades 3-5 will enjoy these standards-aligned, interactive lessons.
Explore both current and static electricity, create circuits to demonstrate energy transfer through current electricity, and investigate how energy transfer can be used to create an electromagnet.
Recognize that energy is present in moving objects and understand the relationship between kinetic and potential energy; apply scientific principles to design, test, and refine a device that converts electrical energy to other forms using simple open or closed circuits; and acknowledge the sun as the ultimate source of energy on Earth.
Design solutions to real-world problems considering specific criteria and constraints, explore how engineers improve technologies to enhance benefits, reduce risks, and meet societal needs, and evaluate experiments to determine if mixing substances causes changes in their properties.
Analyze the internal and external structures of land animals and plants that support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction; infer how adaptations help them thrive in land biomes; and use evidence to explain how variations among pollinators within the same species can enhance their survival and the survival of the plants they pollinate.
Analyze and label the internal and external structures of plants to understand their functions, develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to describe energy flow among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers, and investigate the role of carbon in photosynthesis.
Investigate the cause-and-effect relationships between magnets, solve problems using magnetic interactions, and explore how to create an electromagnet.
Explore and explain the water cycle on Earth, use tables, graphs, and tools to describe weather and climate, and investigate natural hazards and their effects on humans and the environment.
Develop models of terrestrial and aquatic food chains to illustrate energy flow among producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers; explore adaptations that help animals survive in changing environments; and investigate an owl’s diet by dissecting an owl pellet.
Explore cause-and-effect relationships between energy, force, direction, and motion of materials; identify and demonstrate how the six different simple machines serve various purposes; and evaluate the effectiveness of multiple design solutions based on given criteria and constraints.
Use fossils to learn about the past, observe how mechanical weathering and transportation shape the landscape, and analyze data and maps to interpret landforms and Earth's layers.
A limited number of lessons are available at no cost through a partnership with Vulcan Materials Company.
Describe the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, recognizing that matter is made of particles too small to see; compare physical and chemical changes by observing physical characteristics; and analyze data to demonstrate that matter is conserved even when it changes form or appears to vanish.
Experiments and activities designed to inspire 6-8 graders.
Develop and use models to illustrate atomic structure, including subatomic particles with their positions and charges; classify materials as pure substances or compounds based on their composition; and create compounds while exploring their atomic makeup.
Develop and construct models to identify and explain the structure and function of major cell organelles, model passive transport and how cells maintain homeostasis, and understand the process of mitosis that creates identical daughter cells.
Explore how changes in biodiversity affect ecosystem stability and natural resources, evaluate the impact of biotic and abiotic factors on biomes, and analyze fossil data to uncover patterns about past life.
Analyze and compare the properties and sources of kinetic, elastic potential, gravitational potential, chemical, and thermal energy; conduct investigations to demonstrate how heat transfers through radiation, conduction, and convection; and design experiments to explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity in generators and motors.
Investigate the relationship between force, mass, and motion; demonstrate how balanced and unbalanced forces affect objects considering gravity, inertia, and friction; and analyze and explore Newton’s laws.
Design and conduct investigations to explore the relationship between magnetism and electricity in electromagnets, provide evidence that force fields exist between objects without direct contact, and demonstrate the Earth’s magnetic field.
Plan and conduct an investigation comparing ethanol production by yeast with different feedstocks, measure and observe chemical changes during fermentation, and construct and revise explanations based on evidence for matter cycling and energy flow in anaerobic conditions.
Investigate convection patterns caused by uneven heating of the Earth; explain how atmospheric flow, geographic features, and ocean currents influence regional climates through heat transfer; and evaluate how interactions among air masses, pressure systems, and frontal boundaries lead to weather conditions and severe storms.
Explain the processes and forces that form igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks; demonstrate changes in the lithosphere such as plate movements, boundaries, and sea-floor spreading; and evaluate how minerals affect crystalline structures and rock formation.
This Outreach Lesson is sponsored by Vulcan Materials Company.
Evaluate and predict dominant and recessive alleles from parents to offspring; demonstrate and explain photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and anaerobic respiration in the cycling of matter and energy flow; and develop an argument explaining how behavioral and structural adaptations influence survival and reproductive success in animals and plants.