Welcome to Teachers TryScience! - featuring teacher resources from local and global science centers.

TryScience now offers a new teacher section -- with resources just for you!
Find activities by type, topic, age, or keyword or try a featured activity:

• Explore the languages and living conditions of the world as you Test Your Tongues and Spin the Wheel of Fortune (from Finland)
• Apply the science behind the sport to compete in the TryScience Extreme Challenge
• Experiment with sound waves in materials as you Catch the Wave (from Japan)

Promote family science and offer support for parents.

Will you scramble eggs? Discover how an egg at rest stays at rest with an egg, a broom, an empty toilet paper roll, a pie pan and a glass of water.

Find exciting professional development opportunities offered by science centers where you live.

Want to introduce your middle school classroom to the wonderful world of plants? The Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden offers professional development courses for middle school science teachers in South Florida. Downloadable course materials are available for teachers anywhere.

Find a unique experience at a science center near you

The FIRST Lego League 2006 competition is now underway!  Participants build a robot and test it in local (or state and national) competitions.  Science centers around the country such as Science Central in Fort Wayne, Indiana and Dakota Science Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota are getting their teams in place- find or organize a team near you!

Get a head start on your robot programming skills-- Check out A-Mazing Robots.

TryScience.org is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with science and technology centers worldwide. Science is exciting, and it's for everyone! That's why TryScience and over 600 science centers worldwide invite you to investigate, discover, and try science yourself.

TryScience is brought to you through a partnership between IBM Corporation, the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS), the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), and science centers worldwide.

New interactive content is added regularly to these areas:
Adventure: Thematic interactive experience
Experiments: Hands-on (offline) activities with an online component
Field Trips: Interactive science center features, plus a science center locator
Curious?: Short polls and activities based on a hot topic question, plus related news links
Live Cams: Live views from webcams at science and technology centers worldwide

Visit often and explore the resources science centers contribute to this site!