OUTREACH WORKSHOPS

Explore, measure, build, program, create, test, question, cheer, touch, and learn when you bring MoChiMu to you! Outreach Workshops bring MoChiMu’s signature inquiry-based, hands-on learning right toyour classroom, afterschool program, library, Scout meeting, or family night! These engaging hour-long, classroom-sized programs led by a MoChiMu Educator are designed for any classroom-sized space and audience,to complement your curriculum, and to bring excitement and energy right from MoChiMu to your learners!

The program cost includes:

  • A one-hour interactive program right in your classroom for up to 30 learners led by an engaging MoChiMu outreach educator

  • All materials needed – there’s nothing for you to prepare!

  • MoChiMu-style extension activity write-ups to use after our visit

  • All mileage and travel fees with no minimum session requirement (in Stanislaus County – in other counties, mileage fee or multi-session minimums will apply; call 209-232-6060 ex. 102)

You provide:

  • A classroom-sized space (with access 30 minutes prior for set-up)

  • Adult Helpers (i.e. parent volunteers, paras, etc.; see specific requirements and recommendations for each unique program below)

Book multiple sessions to bring MoChiMu Outreach Workshops to your entire grade level! Or, build a school-wide package of programs including Outreach Workshops, Field Trips, teacher Professional Development, and more! Book here!

TO BOOK:
Fill out an Outreach Workshops Request Form or call 209-232-6060 ex. 102!

NEW! MOVE IT AND GROOVE IT
(Recommended for preschool - Kindergarten)
Cost: $349 / session (45 minutes, up to 24 students)
Adult Helpers: No extra helpers needed beyond classroom staff

In this classroom program designed just for the youngest learners, we’ll explore our human bodies and the incredible things they can do! Presented “in the round” as a whole group experience, it all starts with parts, as we explore our “heads, shoulders, knees, and toes” – not to mention the parts we don’t always see, like our lungs, stomachs, hearts, and brains. Together, we’ll feel the burn of real cardiovascular exercise, and the power we have to control our bodies with a parachute game! It’s a crash course in body awareness and motion, just right for preschoolers!

Downloads: Printable Take-Home Sheet

NEW! MUSIC MAKERS
(Recommended for preschool - Kindergarten)
Cost: $349 / session (45 minutes, up to 24 students)
Adult Helpers: No extra helpers needed beyond classroom staff

Become a musician with the help of a MoChiMu Educator in this rhythmic workshop designed just for the youngest learners. Presented “in the round” with a whole group, this preschool-style program invites students to become musical masters by exploring rhythm, beat, and tempo. Students use real instruments to become percussionists, turning your classroom into a symphony of sound.

Downloads: Printable Take-Home Sheet

START WITH ART!
(Recommended for preschool - Grade 1)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: Three or more to facilitate activity stations

Unleash your inner artist and transform your classroom into an open studio – with no mess left behind! Together, we’ll begin by investigating the tools that artists use to make their imagination real – principles like color, shape, and structure. Then, we’ll get hands-on as little artists explore “sculpted selfies,” create water paintings, build with cardboard construction materials, experiment with real tools as they cut and collage, and even mix water colors on our mobile light table!

Downloads: Printable Take-Home Sheet

BODY BASICS
(Recommended for TK - Grade 2)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: Two or more to facilitate activity stations

Become a member of the “care team” as MoChiMu transforms your classroom into a laboratory of the human body! First, we’ll explore organ systems, food groups, and the power of exercise! Then, you’ll become a physician yourself as you compare and contrast real X-rays, assemble well-balanced meals, measure your active heart rate, and put the tools of real medical professionals to the test!

Downloads: Program Packet for Educators | Printable Take-Home Sheet

JUNIOR ENGINEER
(Recommended for TK - Grade 2)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: Two or more to facilitate activity stations

Design, build, test, and redesign! In this hands-on program, we’ll start by exploring the energy around us – at work whenever something lights up, makes noise, or moves – and see how it flows through circuits. Then, you’ll become an engineer yourself as you build sky-high standing towers, energize light bulbs, program real robots, and even design, build and test your own floating boats to see how much mass they can carry without sinking!

Downloads: Program Packet for Educators | Printable Take-Home Sheet

MAGNETS, MIXING, AND MOTION
(Recommended for TK - Grade 2)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: One or more to facilitate an activity station

Investigate the science behind gravity, magnetism and chemical reactions in this rolling, tumbling, bubbling hands-on mobile STEM workshop! Build ramps and magnetic building blocks, launch rockets, and use real tools to get work done! It’s a fizzing, popping, twisting, turning, pushing, pulling scientific experience!

Downloads: Program Packet for Educators | Printable Take-Home Sheets

STORMY SCIENCE
(Recommended for TK - Grade 2)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: Two or more to facilitate activity stations

Follow MoChiMu’s recipe as we gather the “ingredients” for a storm in this exciting meteorological workshop! Together, we’ll investigate temperature, the states of matter, and the weather around us. Then, you’ll explore hands-on activities using real tools to experiment with water, follow patterns to create musical sound storms, investigate ice spheres, dress for the weather, and discover the power of air in our mobile wind tube!

Downloads: Program Packet for Educators | Printable Take-Home Sheets

BEGINNER ROBOTICS
(Recommended for Grades 1 - 4)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: None needed, but welcome

What is a robot? How does it work? MoChiMu’s Beginner Robotics is the way to find out! In this incredible introductory workshop, we’ll explore energy, circuitry, and the “language” robots speak: programming. Then, you’ll take control of your own hand-held Bee-Bot and test out MoChiMu’s customized, cross-curricular challenges: write a fairy tale and bring it to life through programming, pilot your Bee-Bot between flowers to pollinate them, practice your spelling words on the Alphabet Mat, and so much more!

COASTER CREATORS
(Recommended for Grades 2 - 6+)
Cost: $349 / session (1 hour, up to 30 students)
Adult Helpers: None needed, but welcome

Hold on tight! This open inquiry, engineering design workshop is filled with ups and downs as you explore the engineering process, communication, and collaboration. After exploring the physics behind the thrills, we’ll turn your classroom into an engineering lab as you build your own marble roller coaster around chairs, through desks, and across chalkboards. With limitless flexible track, supports, and marbles, if you can dream it, you can design it, build it, test it, and redesign it until your coaster is ready to thrill.

Downloads: Program Packet for Educators | Printable Take-Home Sheets

THE BASICS

  • Outreach Workshops bring the hands-on, inquiry-based excitement of Modesto Children's Museum to your classroom!

    These structured programs are educator-led, hands-on, and designed for "a classroom-sized audience in a classroom-sized space." They're perfect for schools, after school programs, Scout meetings, or family nights – anywhere where a group of about 30 participants meets.

  • Each hour-long session for no more than 32 students is $349. You can book multiple back-to-back sessions on the same day to serve multiple classrooms (See "My grade level has multiple classes" below!)

  • We offer multiple different programs to select from – each on a different topic, with different activities, and for a given recommended age level. However, every outreach workshop is a one hour experience designed for no more than 32 students – one class at a time.

    All of our Workshops begin with an interactive introduction led by a MoChiMu educator, with a bulk of the hour spent with students exploring hands-on, interactive, standards-based activities set up right in your classroom or program space.

  • Outreach Workshops bring MoChiMu to you! These programs are designed to be set up in a "classroom-sized space." Beyond that, each program has its own set-up, but we'll work with the tables, chairs, and carpet spaces you have to set up hands-on activity stations.

  • It's easy! When you call to book, we can reserve multiple back-to-back sessions (with a short reset time in between) so that each class can rotate into the space for an hour-long session. You'll just want to consider setting up in a shared space – like a library or an unused classroom – so classes can rotate into the program space rather than the program moving between classrooms.

  • Not much! Some of our programs require access to water, and they all benefit from one paraprofessional or one parent volunteer who can help staff a hands-on station – but beyond that, we'll bring everything we need!

BOOKING

  • To book an Outreach Workshop visit, fill out the Outreach Workshop Request Form or call MoChiMu's Director of Education at 209-232-6060 ex. 102 during normal business hours.

  • During our introduction of Outreach Workshops, we are initially making these programs available only in Stanislaus County. If you would like a workshop to visit you outside of Stanislaus County, call MoChiMu's Director of Education at 209-232-6060 ex. 102 to discuss pricing. Note that a minimum number of sessions and travel fee may apply.

  • Absolutely! Whether you are small independent school or a large school district, we can help build a partnership-based package that's right for you – imagine all your Kindergarteners having an Outreach Workshop visit their classroom, all your first graders coming to MoChiMu on a Field Trip, and all your second graders spending the night at the museum!

    Call MoChiMu's Director of Education at 209-232-6060 ex. 102 to discuss potential partnerships and program packages!