PORT ANGELES — Science on Wheels from the Pacific Science Center will visit Dry Creek Elementary School at 25 Rife Road on Friday.
The van from the Seattle center offers exhibits and opportunities for hands-on learning about physics, space and geology.
A typical van visit to an elementary school includes a 30-minute opening assembly, 30 interactive exhibits set up in the library or gym and five to 15 individual classroom visits by Pacific Science Center teachers, the center said in a news release.
The Science on Wheels program at the Pacific Science Center, an independent, not-for-profit educational institution, began during the gas crisis of the 1970s, when groups of schoolchildren could no longer visit the museum on field trips.
Educators loaded lessons and small exhibits into station wagons.
Since then, Science on Wheels has grown into one of the largest science outreach programs in the country, the center said.
For more information about the center, see www.pacificsciencecenter.org.
