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Snaps from Scotland's science museum where lot of information about James Scott who invented the steam engine, dolly the sheep etc..

'Science Up Close 2016 '

Sci- Tech Daresbury Lab is a leading centre of science, innovaton, technology and business in rural cheshire and we got an opportunity to visit this wonderful lab as part of family event 'Science Up Close' happened on last week end which we came to know through other home edders. You can try your hand at programming mini robots and immerse yourselves in the virtual worlds and science experiments. The lab was opened for fist time to the public in the last 10 years and was an amazing opportunity for children and adults to know about wide range of telescopes, comets, galaxies, how MAGLEV trains work. There were models of  particle accelerators  and how did they work in cancer detection, Large Hadron collider tunnel, kitchen science activities including mixing various daily kitchen items, 3D printing, esp. ALICE that can help in very early identification of cancers.

Below is a infra red camera and explains how infra red captures heat from our body and the image in the screen explains whether he/ she got hot or cold nose by looking at the shades. Since body gives off radiation in the form of heat- we call this infra red radiation. This type of cameras can be used to measure sea surface temperatures from outer space.

Model of a Comet

                                       Kitchen Sience

One professor was conducting hands on workshop on model of atoms and explaining about protons, neutrons and electrons. It was great to know about Quarks which is explained as the elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter, which was a very new information to me. In addition, she was talking about leptrons, different types of quarks, dark matter, matter and non matter and so on..

There was a science activity zone with lots and lots of hands on activity for family to get involved  and was a brilliant day.

Alderley Edge Mine

Children had an opportunity to visit Alderley Edge Mines a few days ago, were mined from Bronze age until early 20 th Century.

At Alderley Edge , the main products were copper and lead with, later cobalt. It was an amazing experience to the kids to see the mines, different types of copper, how can you differentiate from the colour. A series of steps are normally required to obtain a finished product ; exploring,developing,extracting and processing. It was fun for the children to wear headlights, torches and clothings to explore the mine , deep, dark and slippery at times. Many Home Ed children were there accompanied with their parents.

MOSI- Museum Of Science and Industry

We as a whole family went to Museum Of  Science and Industry  (MOSI), Manchester yesterday as part of learning science. 

Theresu is using the 'lever' mechanism and driving the car up.

Mixing the colours. Good to know the primary colours and sensory applications of mixing the primary colors to create secondary colors.

                                                             

Exploring  various densities of the liquids.

Awareness about the recycling mechanism and the materials can be assorted based on the nature of the household things.

What are shadows? How are they formed?. It was good for Munnu to explore about the term'opaque' as he was learning this week about the nature of materials.He put his handsinside shadow box to make different shadows, created various animal shapes.

Museum got a fabulous cotton industry remnants, exhibiting the spread of cotton industry, how the spinning machine works, countries (especially India) from whom cotton was exported in the beginning of industrial revolution.

 As part of the textile exhibition, there is  'My Den' for children to make all sorts of Den using cotton mats, fabrics, cushions etc. It was fun for the kidoos.