Digital Learning

Digital Learning
Kentucky Science Center is making it easy to bring high-quality science lessons to your students this year. Whether students are back in the classroom or learning remotely, our digital programs have you covered! Our recorded programs give you the ultimate flexibility to use our content at your desired pace, while our live programs provide the opportunity for students to interact with our staff, ask questions, and follow along with hands-on science activities. Kentucky Science Center is prepared to join with you and your students for a digital STEAM experience for the 2020-2021 school year!
All programs meet multiple academic standards from KAS and NGSS, plus they are compatible with multiple platforms, including Google Meet, Google Classroom, Zoom, Teams, and more. Students can connect individually from home, or all together in a classroom.
Recorded Programs
Grades K-8, $150 per module, or customize a bundle to save!
The recorded program is a packaged as a module featuring interactive video, curriculum enhancements, supplemental videos and even with STEM professional interviews. These modules are focused on grades K-3, 4-5 and 6-8 targeting specific NGSS standards. Themes include energy and electricity, transforming different states of matter, animal habitats and human impacts and earth systems such as weathering and erosion. Lesson modules include:
- Video recordings feature Kentucky Science Center educators explaining and exploring topics aligned with NGSS, using engaging science demonstrations and unique challenges for students.
- Each theme consists of a video that can be divided into three lessons, allowing it to be assigned in flexible multi-day or multi-week options.
- Lesson extensions include additional assignments that can be done in-class or as homework.
- Career connections including a video interview with a STEM professional working in the field.
- Parent/caregiver extension resources.
Live Programs
Grades K-12, up to 1 hour
The live programs explore a variety of our hallmark experiences from our Assembly Programs, Field Trip, Challenger Learning Center or after school series virtually through different hands-on experiments. Each program allows students to experience a LIVE unique science moment led by our Kentucky Science Center educators. Whether students are viewing demonstrations or following along with hands-on activities, they’re sure to be engaged with our fun and standards aligned science content.
Our live programs are designed for maximum flexibility: great for a class period, after-school session, or to engage families in a Science Night! A complimentary technology check is provided prior to all live programs.
Choose from standard or premium programs, which feature:
Standard Programs*, $250
- Live interaction with a Kentucky Science Center Educator presenting engaging science content and answering student questions.
- Standard Themes (for a complete list please contact veronica.greenwell@louisvilleky.gov):
- Animals
- Weather
- Chem-Mysteries
- STEAM Box
- Space
- Grossology
*This option is also available in a multi-week or monthly series.
Premium Programs, $350
- Live interaction with a Kentucky Science Center Educator presenting engaging science content and answering student questions.
- Instructions and supply lists for students to follow along with hands-on activities (supply purchase is optional)
- High-quality videos of our most popular demonstrations
- Premium Themes:
- Ion Jones and the Lost Castle of Chemistry
- Captain Current vs. the Electricity Vampires
- STEAM Exploration
- Challenger Learning Center Space Simulation
Pulse of Surgery
Grades 6-12, $300 for Recorded Surgery, $500 for Live Surgery
Get an insider’s view of the O.R. by viewing a real-time heart surgery streamed to your location from U of L Health-Jewish Hospital. Pulse of Surgery is a one-of-a-kind experience that gives participants an up-close and personal view of the scope of careers in medicine, healthy living, and human physiology.
Dates of Pulse of Surgery Programs:
Pulse of Surgery is a live, real-time surgery. There are occasions when a live surgery cannot be scheduled for broadcast dates. In that unusual event, Kentucky Science Center will facilitate an alternative Pulse of Surgery program.
- November 18
- December 9 & 16
- January 13 & 27
- February 10, 17, & 24
- March 10, 17, & 24
- April 14 & 21
- May 5
For more questions, contact Veronica Greenwell at veronica.greenwell@louisvilleky.gov.
Digital Classes: Recorded
Organisms and Ecosystems
How do humans impact the ecosystems around us? Learn how we sustain life by recreating the incredible systems that make up our amazing planet.
Energy In Motion
Explore the many ways we make things go with many different energy sources and how we use the electromagnetic spectrum in our everyday lives.
Our Dynamic Earth
Explore our planet's amazing abilities and how weather patterns literally help shape our world.
Transformation of Matter
Start learning with chemistry. Explore the different states of matter and how they interact or the periodic table and how we find new elements.
Digital Classes: Live
Ion Jones & the Lost Castle of Chemistry
Students join adventurer-chemist Ion Jones on a quest to discover elements, chemical reactions, and more! A KSC Educator will lead participants in live chemistry experiments.
Captain Current vs. Electricity Vampires
This class will introduce students to the concepts of energy and efficiency. Together we will learn about sources of energy, how energy is generated, how circuits work, and how to become better ambassadors of energy conservation.
STEAM Exploration
Take a virtual tour and discover visitor favorites as we travel throughout Kentucky Science Center. Interact live with a KSC educator as you do activities exploring a variety of STEAM topics from bubbles to the human body.
Challenger Learning Center: Digital
Our online, STEM experience takes students on a journey to reach collective goals as they research, work together to answer questions, and collaborate to find solutions to a real-world challenge.
Digital Classes: Pulse of Surgery
Pulse of Surgery
Get an insider’s view of the O.R. by viewing a live heart surgery from UofL Jewish Hospital. Pulse of Surgery is a one-of-a-kind experience that gives participants an up-close view of the scope of careers in medicine, healthy living, and human physiology.