The Baltimore Museum of Art offers meaningful encounters with works of art that deepen students’ understanding of human experiences and expand their creative thinking. FREE tours are led by skilled BMA Docents (volunteer gal...

Close Encounters, a sequential learning program for fourth-grade classes in the Baltimore City Public School System, is designed to enhance students' observational, communication and critical thinking skills through direct, perso...

Renee will visit your school for a day and do a poetic performance in the auditorium, facilitate a professional development for your teachers and a writing workshop for your students All three programs are geared toward recogniz...

This workshop focuses on raising students' self-esteem, improving decision-making skills and exploring career path choices while teaching the mechanics of writing poetry. Through the use of role-plays, interactive games and posit...

The World Rhythm Drum Circus is a percussion exploratorium and learning playground where banging, clanging and drumming is the name of the game. Featuring "Green" percussion instruments made of barrels, bowls, tubes and things fr...

Bats are the only known flying mammals that emit sounds to locate food or to keep themselves safe. This special skill is called Echolocation. At the same time, there is a certain species of spider, where the bat’s navigation sk...

Soundscapes offer a unique interactive, learning experience for students to explore the amazing world around us through the blending of an eclectic and diverse assortment of unique global percussion instruments, with dynamic mult...

It’s morning in the silly house. Exercise your powers of observation while waking up, having breakfast, and brushing teeth. Listen to silly stories, engage in activities, and sing songs.

After learning about crocodile toothbrushes, children can follow in the footsteps of Bill, the crocodile from Tomie dePaola’s Bill and Pete series. Use multiple senses to experience these picture books while crossing the Nile Riv...

How much do you know about peas? Following the humorous book, Eat Your Peas, Louise! by Pegreen Snow is a presentation of pea facts and silly activities that provide a starting point for discussions about manners, respecting eac...

Drawing from the literary genius of Bill Martin, Jr., this is a basic introduction to shadow play. Centered-around the Mr. Martin’s famed, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, participants will learn how the use light and shadow to tell stori...

Mother Goose has been a well-known figure to generations of early learners and now she is on the loose at Port Discovery! Join us for nursery rhymes with puppets, flannel board characters, book illustrations, songs, and musical ...

The diffusion of colors is present everywhere in our world. Diffusion is the process of scattering or spreading from one surface to the next. Eggs dipped in food coloring and tye-dyed clothing are examples of diffusion. In nat...

The diffusion of colors is present everywhere in our world. Diffusion is the process of scattering or spreading from one surface to the next. Eggs dipped in food coloring and tye-dyed clothing are examples of diffusion. In nat...

Port Discovery offers after school enrichment programming to local providers with students K-3rd grade. ArtVentures uses cultural arts to support literacy devwelopmetn and global awareness. Each ten-week session uses participat...