Free Open House Monday, May 18 from 2-6 pm for Families of Children with Disabilities
Explore the PlayWorks™ exhibition using a guide designed for Families of Children with Disabilities. Discover how CMOM can help support your family learn in sensory rich ways.
| Adventures with Dora and Diego Pack for an adventure! Crawl through a bat cave, visit Diego’s Animal Care Center, rescue a family of armadillos from a pack of wolves, and help Dora prepare for a fiesta. View more. |
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| Diego’s Animal Adventure Grade pre-K Rescue a blue Morpho butterfly, guide sea turtles to the shore and much more as you follow in the footsteps of Diego as he helps different animals in Adventures with Dora and Diego. Create an animal texture collage and participate in an animal body movement workshop. *Meets NYC Pre-K Performance Standards in Literacy, Social Studies and Science. |
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| Dora’s Neighborhood Grades K – 1 Discover Dora’s friends and neighbors through a guided tour of Adventures with Dora and Diego. Participate in an art workshop in which students create a model of their neighborhood. *Meets NYC/NYS Social Studies Standards 1.2a, 1.2b, 3.1a, 3.1d, 5.3b, 5.3c |
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| Gods, Myths & Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece Learn about the exciting world of ancient Greece. Join the gods of Olympus and learn about their powers, decode messages in ancient Greek, reconstruct the ancient past and become the greatest of all Greek heroes on an epic journey home. View more. |
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| Ancient Tales Grades 1 – 2 Students travel through the exhibition Gods, Myths and Mortals to learn stories about the heroes, gods and monsters of the ancient world. Students then participate in an art workshop to create their own Athenian owl mask of wisdom. *Meets NYC/NYS Social Studies Learning Standards 2, meets NYC Performance Standards E3b, E5a for English Language Arts. |
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| An Ancient Odyssey Grades 3 – 6 In the Gods, Myths and Mortals exhibition, students explore the achievements of the ancient Greeks and experience chapters of the epic story of The Odyssey. Students then participate in an art workshop to create their own model of a Trojan Horse. *Meets NYC/NYS Learning Standards in Social Studies 2, 3 meets NYC Performance Standards E3b, E5a for English Language Arts. |
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| Playworks™ Feed alphabet letters to a baby dragon, drive a New York City fire truck and connect an air tube puzzle in CMOM’s early childhood exhibition. View more. |
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| City Sights and Sounds Grades Pre-K – K, Mondays only Explore the PlayWorks TM early childhood floor in this nurturing first museum experience. Students go on a parade through the different environments to learn about the sights, sounds and spaces of the city. *Meets NYC Pre-K Performance Standards in Creative Expression/ Aesthetic Development, Language and Literacy Development, Mathematical Thinking and Social Studies. |
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| Amusement Park Science Learn how a roller coaster keeps everyone up, how the bumper blaster keeps everyone from falling down and how a wave machine works in this lively exhibition exploring the physics behind popular amusement park attractions. View more. |
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| Park and Ride Grades pre-K – 5 Explore the Amusement Park Science exhibition to understand how engineers design rides using Newton’s laws of physics. Construct a support lattice and ball run based on the design of a roller coaster ride then test how well it works in a science workshop. * Meet NYC performance standards for scientific thinking, communication tools and investigation. |
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| City Splash! Pump, pour and play with water in this outdoor exhibition exploring the science and beauty of water. View more. |
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| All About Water Grades Pre K – 1, Discover what makes a boat float, how rain forms and why oil does not mix with water through a series of experiments, art projects, and explorations of the City Splash exhibition that provide an understanding of the unique properties of water. *Meets NYC Science Performance Standards S1, S3, S5, S7, S8. |
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