Download Supporting Curriculum to use before, during or after your RMSC experience.
Educator Guides include information about the exhibition to help you prepare for your visit. Many include content background, pre- and post-visit activities, vocabulary words and connections to NYS Learning Standards.
Pathways are designed around a specific learning theme in a given exhibition hall and provide tools to use with your students to support your exhibit experience, including::
♦ guiding questions
♦ things to try or think about
♦ "What's going on?" content information
♦ vocabulary words
♦ suggested books and websites for learning more
♦ connections to NYS Learning Standards.
Planetarium Films:
Coral Reef Adventures
Educatory Guide
Amazing Journeys
Educatory Guide
Fly Me to the Moon
Educator Guide
Exhibits:
AdventureZone
Pathway: Air, Water & Land
Pathway: Rochester's Historic Waterways
Pathway: Forces
At the Western Door
Educator Guide
Emancipation Proclamation
Educator Guide
Expedition Earth
Pathway: Our Living Environment|
Pathway: Careers in Science
Pathway: The Ice Age in Rochester
Pathway: Ecology
Pathway: Animals of the Past
Flight to Freedom: Rochester's Underground Railroad
Educator Guide
Supplement for Guided Exhibit Exploration
From Here To There
Pathway: Force
Pathway: Pressure
Pathway: Work
Educator Guide: Air Explorations
Educator Guide: Water Explorations
The Haudenosaunee (Guided Exhibit Exploration)
Educator Guide
How Things Work
Pathway: How A Car Works
Pathway: How Things Work at Home
Pathway: How Things Work in Rochester
KEVA Planks
Complete Educator Guide
Technology
Art
Social Studies
Math and Science
Activities and Tips
Language Arts
Early Childhood
National Standards
Light Here | Light Now
Educator Guide
Native Peoples of the Americas (Self-Guided)
Native American Environments & Cultures (Guided Exhibit Exploration)
Educator Guide
Our Town - Early Rochester
Educator Guide
RACE: Are We So Different?
Educator Guide
Student Guide *
Exhibit Preview *
Ice Breaker Activity *
Desiree's Baby *
Levels of Racism Activity* and Exploring Levels of Racism Document *(from professional development workshop)
Race and Medicine Project*
Quotes and Questions*
Close Reading Protocol,* Chris Widmaier, World of Inquiry
Teacher Lesson Planning 1 *and Teacher Lesson Planning 2,*
Middle School Teacher's Guide
High School Teacher's Guide
Glossary
Bibliography
(* from the RMSC "Race: Embracing Equity" professional development workshops, December 2012-January 2013)
Raceways
Pathway: Newton's Laws of Motion
Pathway: Inquiry
Cumming Nature Center
Map
Self-Guided
(includes Program Description and Objectives)
Self-Guided Nature Walk
Guided
(includes connecting NYS Standards, Program Description and Objectives, Vocabulary, and Suggested Pre-visit Activities):
Natural Communities
Ecological Communities
Falling Leaves
Maple Sugaring
Pioneer Life
Winter Ecology
Past Exhibits:
A T Rex Named Sue
Educator Guide
Extreme Mammals
Educator Guide
September 11, 2001: A Global Moment
Teacher Guide
Colossal DINOSAURS: Bigger Than Ever!
Pre- & Post-Visit Materials
Pathway: Classifying Dinosaurs
Pathway: Dinosaur Adaptations
CSI: The Experience
Educator Guide Activity 1: The Writing on the Wall
Educator Guide Activity 2: Spot the Difference
Educator Guide Activity 3: I Witness
Educator Guide Activity 4: Power of Observation
Educator Guide Activity 5: A House Divided
Educator Guide Activity 6: the Write Stuff
Educator Guide Activity 7: Diagnostic Forensic Solutions, Inc.
Educator Guide Activity 9: No Bones About It
Educator Guide Activity 10: Sticky Fingers:
Be The Dinosaur
Educator Guide
Brain: The World Inside Your Head
Educator Guide
Past Films:
Film - Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs
Educator Guide
Dolphins
Teacher Guide
Beavers
Teacher Guide
Mysteries of the Great Lakes
Primary Level Educator Kit (Grades 1-3)
Junior Level Educator Kit (Grades 4-6)
Intermediate level Educator Kit (Grades 7-8)
Living Seas
Teacher Guide
Dinosaurs Alive!
Educator Guide
Activity Guide
Amazing Caves
Educator Guide
Wild Oceans
Educator Guide
Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey
Educator Guide
Forces of Nature
Teacher Guide
Curriculum Questions and Suggestions?
We welcome your questions and suggestions. We are happy to come to your school for consultations on our programs and how they meet the needs of your students.
For Planetarium programs, please contact Planetarium Director, Steve Fentress by e-mail at Steve_Fentress@rmsc.org or by fax at (585) 271-7146.
For all other programs, please contact Head of School and Teacher Programs, Deborah Massey by e-mail at Deborah_Massey@rmsc.org.