View across the Charles River from inside the museum.
This morning we drove into town for a half-day visit to Boston's Museum of Science. At breakfast we studied the museum map.I told each of my children to choose just two or three exhibits that really interested him. We arrived at 10:00 a.m. I gave everyone a pad of paper and a pencil and set them loose. Their objective was to make a list of things they learned, and a list of things they wanted to learn more about.
L was interested in giant insects:
space exlploration (that's L inside the capsule):
dinosaurs:
and the moving sculpture/ball machine:
We left at noon, came home for lunch and compared notes. So many, many fascinating discoveries! It was revealing to see what each of my children recorded--so different in what captured each of them. Z wrote down facts about a prototype automobile and the weight of a dinosaur compared to its fossilized remains; E wrote about human reproduction; and A recorded population stastics like, "every 8 seconds someone is born in the United States."
Fun stuff, this learning together!
