Sunday, April 24, 2011

Detroit Science Center…part 1

One of the last big things we did while we were in Michigan, was visit the Detroit Science Center.  I was impressed at how fun this place was for all of these kiddos, even with such differences in age between them. 

We started the museum off learning how cars were built.  The kids learned how it would be to work on an assembly line.

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My kids loved watching this robot. It was pretty smart.

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Rachel, Carson, and Zach playing on the forklift.

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This pendulum was to teach the kids how the earth is always rotating.  While we were there, they got to see it knock off a few marbles.  As the earth rotates in 24 hours, all of the marbles are knocked off.

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Coop was a pretty good sport, spending a lot of the day hanging out in his stroller.

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The museum had an exhibit where the kids could work some controls and send off bottle rockets (two-liter bottles filled with a little water,  then filled with air, and then they shoot high in the air).  These cousins loved this, and were already pretty experienced since we did the same thing last summer in Grandpa’s backyard. 

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