Classes & Programs
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Join and save!  All Annual Pass Holder Club & Predator Pass holders pay only the program fee, museum admission is waived.

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Owl Pellets
Ages: Families
Date: February 6, 2010
Time: 1:00 – 2:30 pm
Cost: $8 adults, $6 children, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
Made of the fur and bones of an owl’s prey, owl pellets are a fascinating way to explore an owl’s food web as well as practice classification skills while sorting and identifying the bones you find.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by January 23.
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Valentine Tea
Ages: 5 and older
Date: February 13, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $8 adult, $6 child, which includes Museum admission (both child and adult need to register and pay for this activity)
Location: Sloan Museum
What could be more “romantic” than a Victorian Valentine tea? Come join us for an afternoon reception at Sloan Museum. Enjoy some simple refreshments while learning about Victorian etiquette and pastimes. Relax and have fun as you decorate a parasol and play some old fashioned games.
Pre-registration required by February 5.
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Snowshoeing
Ages: Families
Date: February 13
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $5 per person
Location: Ligon Nature Center
Go on a Nature Scavenger Hunt as you snowshoe your way across one of Ligon’s trails. How hard is it for animals to survive in the winter months? See how good you are at it as you try to find acorns, leaves, and a variety of objects. Snowshoes would be provided at Ligon.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by February 5.
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Road to the White House
Age: all ages
Date: February 15
Time: 10am-12pm
Cost: $8 adults, $6 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
Join Sloan Museum and the Grand Blanc Living History Society for an interactive introduction to presidential history! You’ll see a brief presidential presentation and then meet a select group of presidents and first ladies. You might even get a campaign button! 
Pre-registration required by February 8.
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Michigan Birds of Prey
Guest: Wildlife Recovery
Ages: Families
Date: February 15
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
LIVE ANIMALS Join us for this up close look at Michigan’s birds of prey. Explore predator / prey relationships as well as conservation and rehabilitation efforts for these magnificent predators. This presentation may include a screech owl, a great horned owl, a kestrel falcon and a red tailed hawk.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by February 8.
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Prehistoric Predators
Guest: Bill Heyworth
Ages: Families
Date: February 20
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
The prehistoric past has included a varied array of ferocious predators. Come, see, and touch fossil bones, teeth, eggs, and coprolites of some of these carnivores. Learn about Tyrannosaurus rex, Allosaurus, Canis dirus (wolf), the saber tooth cat Smilodon fatalis, plus others.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by February 12.
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A Morning with Harriet Tubman
Age: all ages
Date: February 24
Time: 10am-12:30pm
Cost: $15.00 per person, which includes Museum admission ($20 --make/take option...make a Goombe drum)
Location: Sloan Museum
Join Harriet Tubman and discover the world of the Underground Railroad, slavery and abolition.
Option: make and take Goombe drum.
Pre-registration required by February 17.
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Nocturnal Predators
Guest: For-Mar Nature Preserve
Ages: Families
Date: February 27
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
When the sun disappears and darkness falls, many creatures get to work. Learn about the special adaptations of animals that are awake at night. Michigan is home to frogs, snakes, crickets, bats, owls and even wolves that hunt at night. Join a Naturalist from For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum to learn how the food hunt changes at night.
Sponsored by Chase and B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by February 19.
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Carnivore Connection – A Look at Predators
Guest: Science Alive
Ages: Families
Date: March 6, 2010
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
LIVE ANIMALS Join Science Alive for a hands-on look at some fascinating predators. We’ll observe specific adaptations that enable the “meat-eaters” to fulfill their roll in the food chain. Observe teeth, claws, cryptic coloration, diverse hunting techniques, and other physical and behavioral characteristics in this live animal presentation. Expect predatory reptiles, amphibians and mammals!
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by February 26.
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Predator Masks
Ages: Families
Date: March 13
Time: 1:00 – 2:30pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
Use a large variety of materials and your imagination to create a mask of your favorite predator to take home. Learn about teeth, claws, camouflage and other adaptations that keep these hunters well fed!
Sponsored by Chase and B95.
Pre-registration required by March 5.
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Car Care for Women!
Age: adult women
Date: March 18
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Cost: $15.00 per person
Location: Buick Gallery
Ever worry about changing a tire on your car? How about an oil change? Wonder if you were overcharged for that brake job last month? This new program (just for women) will teach you the basics of car care and outline standard maintenance. You’ll also have a chance to tour the historic Buick Gallery!
Pre-registration required by March 11.
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What’s for Lunch?
Guest: Potter Park Zoo
Ages: Families
Date: March 27
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
LIVE ANIMALS It’s eat or be eaten in the Wild Kingdom! Learn how animals develop amazing strategies for catching food . . . and how they avoid becoming dinner themselves! Students learn basic concepts about camouflage, stalking techniques, and more.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by March 19.
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Shadows in the Mist
Age: all ages
Date: April 10
Time: 12:30pm
Cost: $10 adult, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
Discover the haunting melodies of the Native American flute. Join Steve Prince as he describes the place of the flute in Native American culture through healing, telling stories, during wedding and funeral stories and courting. Prince will bring his collection of flutes and will fill the gallery with music, while telling of the spirituality that accompanies this instrument.
Pre-registration required by April 2.
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Predators or Prey? The Amazing World of Insects
Guest: Michigan State University Bug House
Ages: Families
Date: April 10
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adults, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
LIVE INSECTS Did you know that a cricket’s ears or on its knees or that a fly has taste buds on its feet? A visit to the Sloan Museum will give you the answer to these and other cool things about bugs. See amazing displays and get a chance to get up close and personal with real live creepy crawlers.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by April 2.
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Build Your Own Predator
Ages: Families
Date: April 17
Time: 1:00 – 2:30pm
Cost: $8 adult, $6 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
What’s your idea of a perfect predator? Would it have long legs for swift chasing? Would it have sharp teeth and long claws? Explore physical adaptations that help predators hunt and prey animals escape while using a large variety of craft materials to design model predator and prey animals.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by April 9.
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Insect Predators
Guest: Organization for Bat Conservation
Ages: Families
Date: April 24
Time: 1:00pm
Cost: $10 adult, $8 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
LIVE ANIMALS Learn about the types of animals that eat insects. Adaptations for eating insects, habitats, and strategies for hunting will be explored. Live animals include a U.S. insect-eating bat, screech owl, flying squirrel, sugar glider and frog.
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by April 16.
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Animal Tracks
Ages: Families
Date: May 1
Time: 1:00pm
Fee: $5 per person
Location: Ligon Nature Center
Use a list of animals common to this area, pictures of their tracks and other resources as you hike along Ligon’s trails. How many different animal tracks can you find? Can you identify them?
Sponsored by Chase, B95 and Mr. & Mrs. Dean Yeotis.
Pre-registration required by April 23.
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Car Care for Women!
Age: adult women
Date: May 20
Time: 7:00-9:00pm
Cost: $15.00 per person
Location: Buick Gallery
Ever worry about changing a tire on your car? How about an oil change? Wonder if you were overcharged for that brake job last month? This new program (just for women) will teach you the basics of car care and outline standard maintenance.
You’ll also have a chance to tour the historic Buick Gallery!
Pre-registration required by May 13.
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Air Power
Ages: 8 – 12 years
Date: May 22
Time: 1:00pm
Fee: $8 adults, $6 child, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
Make it move with air! Send a balloon rocket across the room and launch a film canister rocket. Construct and race a cardstock skimmer in our Skimmer Regatta. Add sails, change the surface it races on…can you figure out how to  make yours go the farthest?
Pre-registration required by May 14.
Sponsored by Cars108.
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Mom and Me Victorian Tea
Age: Preschool - Kindergarten
Date: June 17
Time: 10am-12pm
Cost: $8, which includes Museum admission
Location: Sloan Museum
Kids and their special adult can join us in the courtyard of Sloan Museum for tea, punch and cookies along with crafts and hands-on activities! Decorate a fan, play some old time games and take a look at some of the dolls of Sloan Museum’s collections.
Pre-registration required by June 10.
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