Children's Museum May 17, 2012

We went to the Children's Museum again this week; but with another hs family that we are friends with.  We did another science lab experiment- on CLONING.  We learned a lot and made a clone of an African Violet.  We got to bring home our little clone to keep and grow on our own.  Enjoy a few pictures from our visit!

Glass Sculpture by Dale Chihuly--he visited my undergraduate college when I went there (Kansas City Art Institute); so it is great seeing his work.

Send In The Clones: at the Science Lab

"Send In The CLones" : This is our Science Project for the day at the Children's MuseumMeet the African Violet.  With one leaf and stem it can totally grow a new plant!  That is amazing.  There are a few living things that do this--ex. potatoes, tulips, bulbs, apple trees and banana's go through this procedure a lot.  The banana's we eat are "seedless" so they have to be specially reproduced by cutting of a nodule from their root system to grow a new plant/tree.  First we picked a plant, then the leaf with the longest stem.  Then we cut of our leaf with long stem and picked out our growing medium-this sponge like brown square you see on the tray.

Then we placed the long stem into the hole in the middle of the planting medium.

Then we saturated the brown square/sponge with water.

Then we placed them in ziplock bags for the trip home.

Water Clock Presentation

We saw a good presentation by a "plumber".  He told us how the Water Clock works.He brought out a poster of a toliet to show how the siphon works--can you see the white poster on the blue bars in front of the clock?

Here he is with a plunger, discussing the way the water system works.

Wilbur Wright's Flying Presentation

He gave a great "performance" and stayed in character the whole time.  There was a lot of great detail and he took questions after his 'show'.  Very interesting!  Our CM's focus right now is on "Flight Adventures" so there are numerous stations to learn about flying.

More Lego Land Pictures for my friends in Virginia-

I removed the pix to make more space for my blog...hope you saw them while they were here!

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