Maryland Science Center
Jul. 16th, 2011 05:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
entirelysonjaWe were supposed to meet my parents at the Maryland Science Center today, but after they had to cancel, we decided to go anyway.
The kids had a great time. Karl especially loved the musical ball machine, though this one is different from the one I knew as a child at the Franklin Institute or the one at the Boston Museum of Science, in that it is kid-powered. Also, instead of using pool balls, it uses smaller balls, a couple of which are much heavier than the others and wind up going down a completely different path in the machine. I thought it was very well done, and Karl loved it.
Erika especially liked the pneumatic tubes in the children's section (kind of like a children's museum inside a science museum). You could write messages on pieces of paper, stick them in the capsules, and shoot them across the room through the tube.
Karl playing with water
Erika running with a parachute
We will definitely be going back!
The kids had a great time. Karl especially loved the musical ball machine, though this one is different from the one I knew as a child at the Franklin Institute or the one at the Boston Museum of Science, in that it is kid-powered. Also, instead of using pool balls, it uses smaller balls, a couple of which are much heavier than the others and wind up going down a completely different path in the machine. I thought it was very well done, and Karl loved it.
Erika especially liked the pneumatic tubes in the children's section (kind of like a children's museum inside a science museum). You could write messages on pieces of paper, stick them in the capsules, and shoot them across the room through the tube.
Karl playing with water
Erika running with a parachute
We will definitely be going back!
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Date: 2012-03-26 04:43 am (UTC)