Hopkins Community Education

Join Science Explorers in our Amazing Me class as we use our cranium to learn how the heart is responsible for pumping blood all around our bodies. Plus, we will investigate what happens to the food we eat and how our lungs are similar to a sponge. All this and more as we discover what really happens beneath our skin.

Learn about winter by building and playing in the snow, making snow art, and doing snow science. Learn how to play outdoors all winter long! Come dressed for the elements, as this class will be mostly outdoors. Price includes cost of child and adult buddy. Location: The Marsh - Dragon Room, 15000 Minnetonka Blvd, Minnetonka, MN 55345

Preschoolers…bring along a parent or your favorite adult for a fun and friendly hands-on science class. Join us as we investigate an environment where it’s always warm, the trees are always green, and the animals are very unique as we learn about the layers of a tropical rainforest and the some special animals that live there.

Travel along with Science Explorers as we investigate an environment where it’s always warm, the trees are always green, and the animals are very unique. We will first learn about the layers of a rainforest. Then discover the animals that make the rainforest their home from the slow moving sloth to the plate-size tarantula and more. Join us as we explore a tropical rainforest through experiments, games, stories and art project.

Are you buggy for bugs? Do you like the creepy, crawlers of the immense insect world? Then join us as we learn about bugs and insects and how they are different from each other. Plus, discover how some bugs live in colonies, and how bugs eat, smell and survive. We will also construct our own bugs, weave a web and more in this fun, hands-on class.