 Conducting a Charge from the Plasma Ball to a Florescent Light |
When we were first putting together displays for Port Discover, LuAnne Pendergraft was regularly correcting us when we referred to it as a children’s science museum. This was not a museum, this was a center. It was an active place, a place where kids would be doing science, not passively be fed science. It was a place for adventuring.
NEMO does a fantastic job of embodying this principle. Extremely little of the center isn’t interactive. Everywhere you go, kids are banging displays, getting their sleeves wet, or solving some puzzle. Practicing science is the practice of engaging the world around us in ways that enlighten and instill a sense of wonder.
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