There are so many cool things going on in the Twin Cities metro area!
Check out the current and upcoming events at the Science Museum of Minnesota:
http://www.smm.org/
(Including "Celebrate Girls & Science on Saturday, November 13", and "Coming February 2011: Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" !)
And through the MN Historical Society:
http://www.mnhs.org/events/
Or at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts:
http://www.artsmia.org/
(Particularly for the 8th graders, who have been studying African geography: http://www.artsmia.org/index.php?section_id=2&exh_id=4031)