Circus of Science coming to Pablo on May 10 - 11

MISSOULA — During May and June, The University of Montana’s spectrUM Discovery Area will bring hands-on science exhibits and activities that explore the science of “Weather” to Montana’s seven reservations.

While on tour, the “Weather” exhibits will visit colleges and elementary schools in Pablo, Browning, Box Elder, Harlem, Wolf Point, Lodge Grass and Lame Deer.

School groups, families and the public are invited to visit the exhibits during school days and some evenings and weekends. Visitors can explore cloud formation, convection currents, wind erosion and electricity and create giant bubbles.

The exhibits are free for schools and the public and made possible through a grant from the Montana National Science Foundation Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research in collaboration with colleges, researchers, teen volunteers, public and tribal schools, and programs such as Salish Kootenai College’s Big Sky Science Partnership.

“Weather” comes to Salish Kootenai College on May 10 - 11.

For more specific locations and times, visit the spectrUM Discovery Area Web site at http://www.spectrum.umt.edu.

To book a school for the discovery area’s Western Montana Fall Science Tour or the Eastern Montana Spring Science Tour, call Crawford at (406) 243-4323 or e-mail emily.crawford@umontana.edu.

The spectrUM Discovery Areas is located in UM’s Skaggs Building in Missoula. Public hours are Thursdays from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $3.50 per person. Field trips can be booked at $3 per child by calling the discovery area at (406) 243-4828 or by e-mailing rebecca.sporman@umontana.edu.