Oak and Walker Schools Welcome DuPage Children's Museum for Hands-On Science Lessons

Both Oak School and Walker School in Community Consolidated School District 181 were able to bring science concepts to life for their second graders through a visit by the DuPage Children's Museum Lab R.A.T.S. (Radical Approach To the Subject). At Walker, students participated in the Estimation Station, a hands-on exhibit-based program designed to provide “real life” encounters with estimation of length, mass, volume, quantity, area, distance, and time. At Oak, the focus for second graders was magnets. Students created a “magnetic” art piece and enjoyed interactive exhibits as they learned about pole patterns, attraction and repulsion, and the properties of objects that are attracted to magnets