Witness amazing live science shows with lots of audience interaction. You may even get a chance to help our scientists onstage!
Live Shows
Live Shows
January 6 - March 16
Monday-Friday
10:20am: Teacher's Choice
11:20am: Air
1:20pm: Illusions
2:20pm: Science Show
3:20pm: Science Surprises
Saturday/Sunday/Holidays:
10:20am: Science Show
11:20am: Science Show
12:20pm: Science Show
1:20pm: Science Show
2:20pm: Science Show
3:20pm: Science Show
4:19pm: Science Surprises
5:20pm: KEVA Tower Knockdown
Monday-Sunday
12:20pm: Electricity
The Ken Spencer Science Park is now closed. It will reopen in March.
Current Shows
Duration: 25 min
See the amazing ways that air can push as marshmallows, balloons, shaving cream and even pop cans try to resist the pressure of the air all around us.
Duration: 25 min
Explore many ways to inflate and experiment with balloons—and then discover some spectacular ways to pop them. This show can get loud!
Duration: 25 min
Discover the elastic properties of soap bubbles as we create round bubbles, square bubbles, big bubbles, small bubbles, and even bubbles you can hold in your hand. Perfect for your little bubble-ologists!
Duration: 25 min
Learn the clues scientists look for when studying chemical reactions as you witness colour changes, foaming elephant’s toothpaste, and the explosive miniature-cannon finale.
Duration: 25 min
Discover the amazing ways our body uses digestion and circulation to distribute oxygen and energy while learning about blood, mucus, intestines, poop, and other impolite science of your insides. Starts September 17 as a Teacher's Choice Stage Show option.
Duration: 25 min
Explore static charge, electric current, and electromagnetism with the lightning-spewing Tesla coil, the Electric Pickle, and the hair-raising Van de Graaff generator.
Note: this show features loud sounds and periods of darkness that may not be suitable for younger or more sensitive viewers.
Duration: 25 min
Learn the three things that every fire needs to survive as you witness coloured flames, giant fireballs and the spectacular fire tornado! This amazing live science show features spectacular science demonstrations and lots of audience interaction.
Duration: 25 min
Discover the ways heat energy can be generated and transferred from one object to another. Experience thermal energy from the chilly cold of solid dry ice to the blast of heat from a lycopodium fireball.
Duration: 25 min
Discover the ways you can fool your eyes and your mind in this look at bewildering illusions old and new. This mind-bending live-science show features spectacular science demonstrations and lots of audience interaction.
Duration: 25 min
Learn how objects spin, fall, flip, and fly in this entertaining look at the science of motion. Highlights include a rubber chicken slingshot, the angular-momentum spinning platform, and the Bowling Ball of Doom.
Duration: 25 min
Quick: what’s 255+347? Discover how to multiply as fast as a calculator, find strategies for games that you never lose, and bend your mind on confounding topological puzzles. This high-energy, interactive show explores patterns and proportions, estimation, and shortcuts to lightning calculation. You’ll be amazed by the world of Number Games!
Duration: 15 min
Boom! This show can’t be contained. Through the amazing live-science demonstrations, hosted outside in the Ken Spencer Science Park, you’ll learn what you can do with repurposed materials—from making a cloud in a pop bottle to building a newspaper tree and learning how to serve six cups of soda in under two seconds.
Duration: 25 min
This amazing live-science show features a selection of our most spectacular science demonstrations and lots of audience interaction.
Duration: 25 min
It’s all about the good vibrations! Through our demonstrations, you’ll learn how objects vibrate to produce sound and the different ways we can change the sound’s pitch and volume.
