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The Lobby
Ball Machine: Watch a specific ball. How many different tracts are there in one section? In the whole machine?
Vertical Wave: Create fascinating vibrations running along a 40-foot tall oscillating column. Can you make an echo?
Gravity Well: Your students can roll coins around an inverted cone. The coin’s path, projected on a horizontal plane, simulates the
orbits of the planets.
Red River Gallery
The Red River Gallery focuses on the science most unique to our region, featuring the many threads of nature – the river, the
land and the wildlife – and of human settlement – the life, the agriculture, the trade and industry.
THE RUN OF THE RED….From Source to Mouth
Red River Aquarium: Encounter the life of the Red River—a 10-foot, 860-gallon aquarium highlights the ecosystem and indigenous
fish of the river. What fish do you see here? Describe an adaptation of one of the fish.
The Red Flyer: Use chromakey technology to see yourself “flying” over the Red and the nearby countryside and cities with views of
meanders, oxbows, and the flood plain.
Map of Louisiana: Put the puzzle together. Where do you live? What river is close to you?
Big Rambling Red: Use this stream table with water running over sand to erode banks and generate meanders, just like the real river.
Locks and Dams: Move a model boat from a lower to a higher pond and use dams to adjust water levels in the two “river” sections.
The Archimedes II: On this fanciful riverboat, you can steer and whistle in the wheelhouse, be the “engine” and turn the paddlewheel,
pump the bilges, and lift cotton with a derrick.
PRODUCTS FROM THE SOIL….Forest and Farm
Count the Years: Examine a large section of a cypress tree; count the rings to determine the tree’s age.
Cotton Gin: Participate in a demonstration of the ginning process; after separating seeds from cotton lint, you may take a sample with
you.
Cotton Bale: Lift the bale. How heavy is it? How many acres of cotton does it take make a bale of cotton?
LIFE AROUND THE RED….Flora and Fauna
Aaron & Peggy Selber Red River Interactive Theater: Enjoy a memorable 15-minute film that will immerse you in the power and
influence of the river on our lives. Using objects, sound and projected images, the Theater demonstrates past and present relationships
of the Red River to the land forms, the flora, and fauna.
A Different View and 3-D Map: Interpret images from above – stereo pictures, satellite images, infrared color-coded, radar images,
or thermal scans.
Staying Alive: Get a close-up view of Louisiana animal life in a variety of terrariums and aquariums. Sci-Port’s biologists will bring
these animals out for a close encounter of the “natural” kind! You will see a variety of amphibians and reptiles. How are they
different? How are they similar?
Busy Bees: Observe our living beehive. Can you find the Queen? How is the Queen different from worker bees? This exhibit is
seasonal only available in the spring.
Donald E. Hataway Activity Pier: Pull the handle to see the record fish caught in Louisiana. What is the state record for a white
bass?
OIL AND GAS First In….The South
Field Pump: View a “nodding donkey” which simulates the pumping of oil from an underground reservoir.
Oil Equipment: Examine a travelling block, hook and swivel assembly with a variety of drill bits on display.
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Drill Core Xylophone: Strike pieces of drill core; as the tone of the ring is picked up and amplified, the different pitches and timbres
represent different physical properties.
Geophone: Raise a capped steel tube and pound it downward once to thump into the ground. See the initial blow and the echo returns
of an oscilloscope trace from a nearby geophone, similar to seismic surveying.
Spongy Rocks: Three reversible tubes can be rotated to illustrate how oil flows through formations of different porosity.
Electric Log: Track the geological profile of the area from the surface. Although at first sight this may look like a piece of art, it holds
many scientific gems telling the story of the region over the past several million years.
Viscosity: Find out what viscosity is and why it is important. Can you give an example of viscosity from your own experience?
GEOLOGY….What Our Land Is Made Of
Rocks of Louisiana: Explore the rocks of Louisiana. What are they and where do they come from?
Glow Rocks: Look at the phosphorescent rocks. Why do they glow? Do you know anything else that is phosphorescent?
Rock On: Identify three classes of rocks. Can you give an example of each?
Petrified Palm Wood: See the Louisiana State Fossil and find out how it is formed.
Rocks and Mineral Display: Identify samples as a rock, mineral, or fossil. Ask a pilot for a field guide to help you.
Fossil Dig/Fossil Hunt: Can you identify the fossils here. Uncover fossils in a simulated dig. What organisms that live today are
related to the fossil you found? This exhibit is gone to the Fix-It Shop.
Schumpert Bodyworks Gallery
The human body is an entry point that interests people in the world of living things.
ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY….What It Is and How It Works
Anatomy and physiology/ sports and fitness clusters
Mr. Bones: A human skeleton pedals on a bicycle. Watch Mr. Bones legs, what joints are involved in pedaling?
Step Test: Measure your heart rate before and after stepping up and down on a stool and compare the effect to standards for the
exercise.
Grip Strength: Measure your grip strength.
Balance: Grip the handle get your balance and then let go. How long could you balance? Challenge a friend. What occupations do
you suppose depended on a good ability to balance?
Blood Pressure: Check your blood pressure
Reaction Speed: Measure the time it takes to press a button after a light flashes.
Netmania: See how many soccer balls you can block.
Measure Up: How much do you weigh in kilograms? How tall are you? What is BMI?
Jump Test: Find your vertical leap.
Blood Pressure: Find your blood pressure with this exhibit.
Beating Heart: Grasp the two electrodes of a pulse sensor, a realistic rubber heart starts beating synchronously.
Head on a Platter: When your student puts his/her head up through a hole in a platter on a tabletop, his/her head appears to be
disembodied on the platter.
Pitch Speed: A radar monitor measures the speed of your pitch. Have a contest with your friends
Lungs: Expand and contract the chest cavity on a model to see how the lungs react.
Hunting for a Vowel: Transform the “blat” of a duck call into recognizable vowel sounds by feeding it into various artificial larynx
sections.
Build a Skeleton: Take apart a colorful layered puzzle of the human body and replace the organs, bones, and muscles one layer at a
time.
Artificial Joints: What kind of joints do you see in this exhibit? Where are they located?
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Mr. Torso: Remove and replace the internal organs of a plastic model. Where is your liver, stomach, heart?
Bone Junctions: How many ways can you connect these bones? Can you describe a joint and what are some types of joints?
X-ray Puzzle: Use comparative skills to assemble different x-ray images of a whole person. Identify the skeletons of a variety of
animals.
Heavy Load: Apply stress to a photoelastic plastic section shaped like a femur. See the strain pattern and compare it with the real
sectioned femur beside it. The real femur has internal strengthening structures just where the strain develops.
THE BRAIN….The Control System
The perception and genetics cluster
Strobe Wheels: Just like hub caps on your car, these simple exhibits help explore how the eye interprets rotating motion.
Reversing Words: Mirror images of some words still look the same.
Anamorphic Images: Twisted and distorted images start making sense with some simple cylindrical mirrors. This exhibit shows our
brain’s dependence on pattern recognition.
The Never Ending Hallway-Look inside the big blue box. What do you see? Is it real or an illusion? Why?
Moire Patterns: Put one piece of transparent material with a pattern on it over another. Do you see a new pattern.?
Move the material slightly, what kind of changes appear in the pattern?
Pretty Lady?: Is she young or old? This puzzling image can be both, it depends on your point of view (literally).
Face or Vase: What do you see? Close your eyes, look again. Is it the same?
Tessellations: A tessellation is a repeating pattern composed of interlocking shapes (usually polygons) that can be extended infinitely.
What changes take place in this tessellation?
Circles and Squares: Which circle is larger? Which square is larger? Check your answer
Art or Math?: For some, Mathematics is art -- it is the symmetry and patterns that characterize Escher’s artwork at the very boundary
of science and art.
Trace Me: Try to run the stylus along the outline only guided by the mirror. Is it easy or hard? Why?
Genetic Traits: This exhibit describes nine genetic traits. What form of each of these traits do you have?
Check Your Prints: Examine your fingerprints under a microscope and compare them to common forms.
DNA-The Language of Life: Where is DNA found and what shape does it have?
Impossible Shapes: Clever drawings of geometrical shapes that the eye takes for granted, once examined, are quickly found to be
impossible to exist in nature.
Zoetrope: A strip of cartoon images inserted into a cylinder is animated when you turn the cylinder. Your students may draw their
own cartoon strips to animate.
Physical Sciences Gallery
MECHANICS….What Makes the World Go Round
These exhibits are found on the lobby balcony.
Bed of Nails: Sleeping about 3000 very sharp nails (4” long), your students will perform some physics magic themselves.
These exhibits are found near the Tornado
Rising Bubbles: Pump air bubbles into the bottom of a column of viscous liquid and watch them rise slowly. notice that the bubbles
are spheroids (surface tension), that they rise (flotation), and that large bubbles catch up with small ones (Stokes’ law).
Angular Momentum: Sit on a turning stool and hold a spinning bicycle wheel by two handles fixed to its axle. Tilting the axis of
rotation causes you to turn around a vertical axis.
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Ned Kahn Art-Science: These sculptures engage students in the beauty of the forces in our physical world: Tornado (found in
Physical Sciences Gallery), Turbulent Orb (in the Lobby Balcony outside the IMAX)), Turbulent Sea (in the Lobby Balcony) and
Chaotic Pendulum (in the Lobby Balcony)
This exhibit is found near the Cynthia George Wood Science Corner.
Domino Table : Working together, students overcome many obstacles caused by Newton’s Laws of Motion to complete a network of
domino pieces.
MACHINES AND STRUCTURES….The Muscles and Bones of Technology
Big Pulleys: Students can pull themselves up using single, double, or triple pulleys and compare the effort required for each.
Big Lever: Lift a car motor using a giant lever; slide a rope loop along the lever to adjust the length of the effort arm.
This exhibit is found right outside Children’s Gallery.
Pump Yourself Up: Students sitting in a chair lift themselves off the ground with a transparent hydraulic cylinder.
ENERGY….It’s Not Matter!
ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM CLUSTER Core Tools of the Modern World
Voltage Divider: Slide the contact of a rheostat and see the light bulbs wired between the slider and the ends change in intensity;
balance the lights; meters show how the voltages are changing.
Polar Power-Electric Wand: Move the bar back and forth through the coil. What happens? Why?
Polar Power-Magnetic Force: Push the button. What happens? Why?
Polar Power-Motors: Push the button. What happens? Why?
Polar Power-Generators: Crank the handle on the right. Crank the handle on the left. How are they different? What do they do?
Why?
Plasma Tower: Touch a glowing tube of gas. The glow intensifies and reaches toward your fingers.
Series and Parallel Circuits: Wire up bulbs and other circuit elements in series and parallel circuits and observe the effects.
Bulbs and Batteries: Your students can connect bulbs and batteries to light up the bulbs.
Magnetic Attraction and Repulsion: Push the left button. What happens? Have you ever seen something like this before? Push the
center button. Put the compass on top of the coil and observe. Move the compass away from the coil and move the rods back and
forth. How is the compass different from before? Why?
What’s a Watt?: Pedal a bicycle generator; select a light bulb, hand drill or hair dryer to power by yourself.
Horsepower: Crank the engine. How much horsepower do you generate?
Jumping Ring: When you push the button, an electric charge causes an aluminum ring to leap up into the air.
Jacob’s Ladder: Send a high voltage charge between two metal rods to see electrical ionization.
LIGHT CLUSTER Familiar, but Strange
Everyone Is You and Me: Two people face each other through half-silvered glass and control the light levels on their own sides; the
image is a combined face.
Shadow Wall: Your shadow is “printed” on a phosphorescent wall by a strobe light.
FLIGHT…Fulfilling Dreams
Fly the Plane: Control a small model airplane inside a wind tunnel. You control the wind speed, elevators, rudder and ailerons.
Balancing Act: A beach ball is suspended over a flexible cone blowing air upwards. Students can test the ability of the ball to stay in
the air by moving and bending the flexible cone.
Bernoulli Funnel: You are challenged to lift a beach ball with a length of hose that blows air out.
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MATH…Explains the World!
This exhibit is found on the lobby balcony. There are 20+ math exhibits with in our new Space Expansion!
Pythagorean Theorem: In this 3-D version of a right triangle, movable blocks from the large square of the triangle’s hypotenuse fill
the two smaller squares on the right angle sides of the triangle.
Technology Gallery
COMMUNICATION and INFORMATION…On the Cutting Edge
Focusing Dishes: Two large parabolic dishes, about 6 feet in diameter, face each other across the exhibition space. Students speaking
and listening at the foci can hear each other clearly across the noisy expanse.
Face Morphing: Edit your face by stretching or compressing different areas of your image.
Internet Stations: Students can use our new Internet stations to access websites providing additional information concerning many
topics encountered in the science center. This exhibit area launches visitors on an infinite journey of information available from
sources throughout the world.
Word Power: Challenge a partner to arrange the colored circles, square, and rectangles by following the directions you give them.
ANIMALS WORKING TOGETHER…It’s a society!
Ants: Observe a large leafcutter ant farm from above ground and inside the colony. Visitors gain access for closer viewing of the ant
nest inside the earth by entering tunnels at the side of the exhibit. The ants have gone on vacation but we hope they will return soon!!
Giant Ants!: Sit on a log in front of a blue screen and see you are “surrounded” by giant ants.
Children’s Discovery Gallery
KIDS@WORK Ages 5-10
This area provides children with the opportunity to use their creativity and skills to learn about construction. Children can play the role
of architects, tradesmen, and engineers. The exhibit area consists of a miniaturized house, garden, and surrounding construction area
where children can work with each other.
Gear Wall: Gears of different shapes and sizes are wall mounted to be touched, turned and explored.
Designer Corner: Draw pictures on the giant magnetic etch-a-sketch and build large noodle and block structures at the design corner.
Noodle Wall: Build your own creation.
Block Table: What kind of structure can you build?
Tools of the Trade: Tools are important for workers to do their jobs. What kind of tools do carpenters use? Plumbers? Electricians?
The Sci-Port House-A two story structure contain exhibits so children can participate in activities that plumbers, architects, and
electricians perform.
Wall Building: Build structures inside the Sci-Port house.
Electricity: Construct circuits that contain various lights, switches, and fans using modular components.
Insulation: Use heat to make pictures and insulation to absorb the heat.
Telephones: Communicate with fellow workers inside and outside the house.
Telescopes: Make observations from the upper deck of the house.
Design Computer: Design features of your house using a building construction computer program.
Musical Stairs: Play a song as you climb the stairs.
Landscaping: Act out the role of a Landscape Designer and beautify the gardens around the Sci-Port house.
Cart and Track: Transport blocks around the building site with the special Sci-Port cart and track.
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Plumb It: Plumb a bathroom with a shower, sink, bathtub, and toilet. When plumbing is hooked up correctly , a blast of air will result.
Crane, Pulley and Bucket: Learn about simple machines whole materials are moved at the house construction site.
Tool Cart: Understand tool use and safety exploring the tool cart.
YOUNGER CHILDREN Ages Toddler-6
Discovery Tunnel: Crawl through unit of 8 different sections designed for young children. Each unit offers a new discovery such as a
observations of plants and animals and tactile stimulation.
Creature Corner: Guinea pigs, hissing cockroaches, hermit crabs, etc. The animals are ambassadors for use by demonstrators to
discuss their many characteristics and adaptations.
Sylvia Goodman Learning Tree: Hear a story, perform a puppet show, or make observations of the animals.
Water Table: Play with a set of enclosed spray jets and an open expanse of flowing water.
Polygon Place: Thread rubber bands on an array of pegs, making a variety of geometric patterns.
Hot Hands: Place your hands on the wall. What happens? Can you make a picture?
Water Blocks Attach different letters sponges to a water-covered wall and spells words or writes sentences.
Chutes and Wheels: Onto a wall are mounted simple pipes, corners and other fittings; design a course for the ball to navigate.
Giant Clock: Move the hour and minute hands on a clock and learn how to tell time.
Step-in Boat: Step in and sit down in a simple small tugboat. Take a journey using the imagination.
Toddler Cubicle: Activity area for very small children with a wide assortment of toys and game.
These exhibits are found in the Lobby Balcony.
Magnetic Cars: See who can get to the finish line first. Does attraction or repulsion work better?
Ball Race: Children roll balls down a straight and a wavy ramp and observe the timing differences. Predict which one you think will
win? Which one wins? Were you right?
Air Cannon: Children hit the rubber diaphragm over one end of a barrel; from the 3” diameter hole centered in the other end comes a
“smoke ring” vortex, which travels across the room and “hits” a scintillating target, which shows the effect
Pipes of Pan: Put your eart to the bottom opening of each pipe. Compare the sounds that you hear.
The Space Center
Dayna and Ronald Sawyer Space Dome Interactive Laser Planetarium: Step inside and see the marvels of the universe. Have a
chance to dock the Space Shuttle with the ISS or see the stars on the night you were born.
Planet Earth Cluster….Our Amazing Home
Earth Computer Stations: Click on “Earth’s City Lights” on Visible Earth. What major highways can you see on this map of the
United States?
Satellite Mural: What satellite measure wind speed and direction over the ocean? What is the objective of the satellite Terra?
Filtered Earth…The Electromagnet Spectrum/Radar: What can the refection of radar waves tell us?
Filtered Earth…The Electromagnet Spectrum/Infrared: Where are the warmest areas in the picture on this exhibit?
Filtered Earth…The Electromagnet Spectrum/Visible Light: What cities can you see in this picture?
Time Calculator: What time zone is Cairo in? What time is it now in Brisbane, Australia?
Geochron: Name a country where it is dark right now? What is the solar analena?
Digital Earth: Can you find Sci-Port on Google Earth? Can you find your school? Can you find your house?
Earth Mazes (Puzzles): Put each of these puzzles together. Can you identify these pictures?
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Anderson Family Foucault Pendulum: Watch the pendulum. It knocks down a mallet every 15 minutes. Name two other things a
pendulum can do besides tell time.
John T. Palmer Sky High Cluster….Things in Near and Far Space
Peggy and Aaron Selber Space Walk: Take a trip through the space walk. What color stars do you see? Why?
Outside of the Peggy and Aaron Selber Space Walk: What nebula is the nursery for some of the most massive stars in the Milky
Way? What nebula is the third star in Orion’s sword?
Sailing By the Stars: Sit in the Earth chair and look at the sun on the stairway wall. What phase of the moon do you see? What
causes the phases of the moon?
Phases of the Moon: Sit in the chair and turn. What happens to the moon? What is responsible for the phases of the moon?
Constellations: Winter: What causes the stars to appear to move across the sky from east to west?
Constellations: Spring: Why is the Big Dipper called the “drinking gourd”?
Constellations: Summer: What animal represents the constellation Aquila? What is its biggest star?
Constellations: Fall: What is an asterism? Give an example.
Barksdale Air Force Base Cluster….The Magic of Flight
Paper Airplane Launcher: Can you launch a paper airplane and get it through a hoop?
History of Flight Mural: When did Howard Hughes set the world speed record with his H-1 airplane? What was the first spacecraft
to orbit Mars?
Paper Airplane Tester (Wind Tunnel): Test your paper airplane by attaching it to the paper clip.
Paper Airplane Folding Center: Use the computer for instructions on folding a paper airplane. Did you choose the Crane or the
Shadow?
Propeller Station: Build a propeller. Which propeller turns faster one with 4 blades or one with 8?
Bernoulli’s Bowling Balls: Place the air hose above the bowling balls and turn on the blower. What happens? Why? Can you make
the balls spread apart?
Drag: What would cause drag on your car? What will have more drag on your car do to the gas mileage? Why?
Lift: Tilt the simulated airplane wing. What happens to the ping-pong ball? Why?
Shuttle Lander: Use the joystick to land the shuttle.
Virtual Hang Glider: Take a ride on a hang glider! This exhibit has gone to the Fix-It Shop.
JPMorgan Chase Earth’s Solar System…The Earth’s Backyard
The Sun: Read about the sun and ancient cultures.
Interactive Sun: Check out this computer program. What are three characteristics of the sun? Take the Sun Fact Quiz!!
Abby and Joe Averett Solar Observatory: What are two types of solar telescopes that we have in our rooftop solar observatory?
Can you see any sunspots today?
Mercury: What spacecraft is on its way to Mercury right now? Name an interesting Mercurian fact.
Venus: Describe Venus’ rotation (spin) as it relates to its revolution (orbit). What did the Magellan spacecraft do?
Earth: What phase of the moon can you see in the sky today? Why did the Apollo astronauts have to have a horizontal support for the
American flag when they planted it on the moon? (Hint: See the photomontage outside the second floor space bathrooms.)
Mars: What is the largest mountain in the solar system? How many moons does Mars have?
Jupiter: Can you see Jupiter in the sky tonight? Name an interesting fact about a Jovian moon.
Saturn: What spacecraft arrived at Saturn in 2004? What did it do?
Uranus: How old are you on Uranus? Describe the atmosphere of Uranus.
Neptune: What makes Neptune blue? The Earth’s axis tilts at 23.5 degrees. What is the Neptune’s axial tilt?
Plutoids: Name 3 characteristics that define a classical planet? Name 2 planet-like objects and where are they found in our solar
system? Are they plutoids or dwarf plantets?
Sundial: What is a gnomon? Look up at the skylight and find the shadow of the gnomon. What time is it?
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Comcast Deep Space Cluster…The Far Reaches of Our Universe
The Crab Nebula: What does the Chandra X Ray Telescope tell us about the Crab Nebula? What does infrared radiation tell us?
What elements make up the Crab Nebula and how do we know? What is in the center of the Crab Nebula?
Radiation Station: Rotate the disk so the radiation source is under the platform. Press the red button and slowly count to ten. How
much radiation did the Geiger counter register. Now repeat using different materials as shields. Which on worked the best? Which
was the least effective? This exhibit is gone to the Fix-It Shop.
Beat the Heat: Put a rectangular piece of material on the plate under the light. What is the best insulator? What is the best heat
conductor?
Sound in Space: Press the button what happens to the sound? Why? What happens to the red lights?
Space Tic Tac Toe: Play a game of Tic Tac Toe and learn about the planets in our solar system. Hint: The computer’s playing time is
determined by how far away the planet that you chose to play is in our solar system. Name one thing you learned!
Star Engineer: Go through the life cycle of a star. Check out more information. When you finish take the Star Quiz by clicking on
the Space Brain button.
Images of Heat: Look at the infrared image on the plasma television. Hold out your hand or look at your face. What part is coldest?
What part is warmest?
Our Cosmic Address: Where is our sun in the Milky Way? What is a nebula?
Electromagnet Spectrum Mural: Where does visible light fall on the electromagnetic spectrum? What is infrared radiation? Which
is longer X-ray or gamma rays?
Hubble Space Telescope Mural: Of what is this picture? How many galaxies are there estimated to be in the universe?
Deep Space Monitor: (near the restrooms on the second floor) Watch monitor. Report on something you learned from watching the
information on this monitor.
Exploring Space…Our Next Frontier
Space Walk Mural: What is an EMU, an EVA, and a MAG? Why are space suits white?
Gravity Traps: Try to hit the target. What do the surfaces around the bodies on this exhibit represent? This exhibit is gone to the
Fix-It Shop.
Gravity Assists: Try to launch a ball and hit a target. How many targets did you hit?
Stellar Wobble: Roll the large ball, then the small ball. Which causes the more stellar wobble? What does stellar wobble tell us?
Robot-Arms Control: Use the track ball and move across the arrow. When it turns green, click to move the arm in that direction.
Can you pick up a simulated rock?
Martian Terrain: What features do you see on the Martian terrain? Is there any evidence there may once have been water here?
Drive the Rover: Program the rover to make moves on the Martian terrain.
Control the Satellite: Help your friend maneuver the rover by making observations with the satellite camera.
Exploring Mars Mural: Who was the first person to use telescopes as astronomical tools? How long is a Martian sol (day)?
Space Gloves: Race a friend to see who can put the shapes in the box quicker. This is just like working in space!!
Rocket Fuel Exhibit: What chemical is broken down? What is used for rocket fuel in this exhibit?
Apollo Space Suit: Have your picture made in the space suit. Why is the Apollo 11 Mission important?
Science in Their Own Words Mural: Find your favorite, famous person. What did they have to say about science?
Gi Gi and Dewey Corley Go Figure Cluster….Trigonometry and Logic
How Tall: Use this exhibit to determine the height of our Sci-Port Discovery Center Eiffel Tower, Tai Mahal, and Statue of Liberty.
What did you have to know to determine this?
Magic Abacus: Did you arrange the blocks so each line equaled 10? Did you discover a new pattern?
Circular Logic: What was your first step in solving this problem?
Cranium Crackers: What was your favorite math game? Why?
3-D Tic Tac Toe: Grab a friend or two and play this unique Tic Tac Toe game. Did you discover the magic position?
Language of Logic Mural: Who was famous for his deductive reasoning? What are some tools of logic?
Crack the Code: Play a game of Crack the Code. What logic did you use to win this game?
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Probability: Shoot the plinko balls into the grid. What is shape does it make? What is this shape called?
Equation Workshop: Choose your operation and play the game. In what operation were you best?
The Blue Square: Can you make a rectangular prism with a red top and blue sides? Can you make a cube that is yellow on all sides?
Square Me: Can you make a red square? What other figures can you make?
Mission Statistical Summary: Play the game. What image did you choose? What percent correct did you get?
William C. Woolf Foundation Measure Up! Cluster…Measurement Makes the World Go
Round
Giant Protractor: For what are protractors used? Make an angle that is 51 degrees. Make an obtuse angle.
How Many-Teddy Bears: How many teddy bears in the cylinder? What method did you use to estimate them?
How Many-Gum Balls: How many gum balls in the cylinder? What method did you use to estimate them?
How Many-Soldiers: How many soldiers in the cylinder? What method did you use to estimate them?
How Many-Tennis Balls: How many tennis balls in the cylinder? What method did you use to estimate them?
Giant Compass: What does a compass do? How many degrees in a half a circle?
Driving Math: Drive to Oklahoma City. How far is it? Now fly. How far is it? Which is shorter? Why?
History of Standardized Measurement: A cubit is from your elbow to the tip of your middle finger. Grab a friend. How do your
cubits compare? Why is this not a good standard of measurement?
Units of Length: How many centimeters in an inch? How many decimeters in a foot?
Units of Mass: How many grams in a pound?
Units of Volume: How many blue squares fit in the front clear box? What is the relationship between the back two boxes?
Volume Table: Calculate the volume of the cube and the cylinder? How do they relate?
Shape Survey: Measure the perimeter of the square? Measure and calculate the area. Is there a relationship between the two?
Double Your Allowance: What would your allowance be if you received a dollar and it compounded each day for a week?
Calculus: Choose a curve. Determine the area under the curve. What formula would help you determine this?
World Numbers: What is your birthday in Egyptian? How are binary numbers used?
Giant Tape Measure: How many cm in a foot? How many cm in 3 feet?
Franks Foundation Solarium….Celestial Geometry and Time
Roof-top Sundial: Look up at the skylight in the roof. Look for the shadow of the gnomen. What time is it?
Right Solarium Wall: Look closely at the beams on this wall. What longitude and latitude are they? What do they represent?
Gnomen: To what celestial object is the gnomen pointing?
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