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Our Mission
To ignite the natural curiosity of all learners to explore and shape their world
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Continue your children’s learning adventures in some of your favorite spaces at Roper Mountain! |
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- Explore the Environmental Science and Sustainability Building which is home to the highly popular Nature Exchange, Our Water Story, and the Sustainable Future exhibits.
- Search for life-size models of both young and adult dinosaurs along our outdoor Dinosaur Adventure Trail.
- Enjoy a stroll through our beautiful Butterfly Garden.
- Engage in creative outdoor play in Wildwood.
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Afternoon Explorations
First Friday
On Friday, December 2, Harrison Hall of Natural Science will be open in addition to the regular access points of Afternoon Explorations to allow you to mix and mingle with your favorite animals!
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Afternoon Explorations
Third Thursday
On Thursday, December 15, join us for Holly Jolly Science featuring a variety of hands-on holiday-themed activities for everyone in your family with a special appearance by Mrs. Claus!
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FRIDAY STARRY NIGHTS: DECEMBER 2 |
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Friday Starry Nights
Magic Tree House:
Space Mission
December 2
4:30 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
Legends of the Night Sky: Perseus and Andromeda
December 2
6 p.m.
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Friday Starry Nights
Exploding Universe
December 2
7:30 p.m.
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Holiday Laser Shows: December 9, 10, 16, and 17 |
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Roper Mountain Memberships are on sale! Purchase or renew a family membership December 1-14 and receive $5 off using code MERRY22. For more information on memberships: CLICK HERE.
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A big THANK YOU to our Community Partners for their support of our new labs and community outreach programs! |
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Check out our new The Island classroom in Harrison Hall of Natural Science! Thanks to the generous support from the Bosch Community Fund, we have created this new island-themed classroom for students in brand new learning labs. The classroom features many fun activities, as well as our first large endangered species, the Fortsen’s Tortoise. Thanks to Community Partners like Bosch, we are able to create this fabulous new classroom experience.
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Thanks to the Fluor Foundation, students in our new 5th grade chemistry labs are able to use the latest high-tech microscopes with LED screens for their lessons. In Revealing Reactions, these students from Taylors Elementary School are using the microscopes to observe active chemical reactions and compare physical and chemical properties to see if a new substance formed!
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Thank you to AT&T for their generous support of our Science on Wheels Outreach partnership with the Greenville County Recreation District. Because of their support we are able to provide free Science on Wheels programs to each of their seven Community Centers throughout the school year.
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MOUNTAIN HIGHLIGHT:
HOOPER PLANETARIUM
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Carolina Association of Planetarium Educators Conference
On November 14-15, Roper Mountain hosted the annual Carolina Association of Planetarium Educators (CAPE) conference. The conference saw 27 participants, most of whom were educators from North and South Carolina. During the conference, participants shared presentations inside and outside of the planetarium dome, giving updates on programs they facilitate as well as posing group discussion questions for the group.
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A local photographer, Tom Moors, joined the conference Monday to give his expert talk on “Engineering Milky Way Photography,” during which he shared some of his fantastic pictures and provided tips on ways we could achieve the same results at our respective locations
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Planetarium presentations included topics such as engaging 3rd graders using earth science software, and captivating audiences using laser light shows. Presentations outside the planetarium included location updates, best practices for difficult questions, and ways to bridge non-astronomy topics with astronomy to fully immerse audiences. Conference sponsors included COSM, Digitalis, and Laser Fantasy.
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what major watershed you live in? Here in the Greenville area we live in the Saluda watershed or river basin. A watershed, also called a drainage basin, is an area of land from which all water drains to a common waterway, such as a river, a lake, or the ocean. Watersheds are named after the body of water they drain into. In South Carolina, we have eight major watersheds or river basins: Broad, Edisto, Catawba, Lower Savannah-Salkehatchie, Pee Dee, Saluda, Santee, and the Upper Savannah.
Here in the Greenville area, every creek, stream and river finds its way to the Saluda River, then to the Santee River, and then all the way to the Atlantic Ocean just south of Georgetown. If we followed a raindrop from downtown Greenville to the ocean, it would travel down the Reedy River, the Saluda River, the Broad River, the Congaree River, and finally the Santee River.
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So, the creek in your backyard, which is fed by the water running off your lawn, ultimately becomes everyone’s water. In our Environmental Science and Sustainability Building, 5th grade students use Enviroscape models to see how rain can carry pollutants from our yards, roads, and fields to a nearby river. We all live in a watershed, connected either upstream or downstream from one another.
Learn more about our watersheds through our Water Story exhibits by visiting Roper during our Afternoon Explorations.
Submitted by Life Science Specialist Tim Taylor
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Give Back to Roper Mountain
We appreciate your consideration in making a donation to support our mission to help lay the foundation for future successes for school and public programming. Make a gift to Roper Mountain today.
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AmazonSmile
You can support Roper Mountain in the Amazon Shopping app on iOS and Android mobile phones by turning AmazonSmile on through your settings and completing onscreen instructions to select us as your non-profit to support.
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THANK YOU COMMUNITY PARTNERS |
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Visionary:
BMW Manufacturing
Bosch Community Fund
Community Foundation of Greenville
The Daniel-Mickel Foundation
Dodge Industrial, Inc.
Duke Energy Foundation
Fluor Golf For Greenville
Greenville County Litter Prevention
Greenville Water
The Late Ernest and Betty Lathem
Lockheed Martin
MetroConnects
Michelin Charity Golf Tournament
Piedmont Arthritis Clinic, PA
ReWa
South Carolina Farm Bureau
Explorer:
Fluor Foundation
GE
South Carolina Charities
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Voyager:
Debbie Bell
Tom and Linda Hamilton
Ron and Tommie Reece
Adventurer:
AT&T Foundation
AFL Global
Bank of Travelers Rest
ScanSource Charitable Foundation
Hal and Minor Shaw
Innovator:
Rob and Katie Howell
John R. and M. Margrite Davis Foundation
Les and Kay Knight
Piedmont Natural Gas
Scott and Pam Powell
Publix Super Market Charities
Barbara Stone Foundation
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We welcome your feedback. Email Roper Mountain to share your thoughts.
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