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We’re not in Kansas anymore… make your own twister-in-a-bottle!
I grew up in St. Louis, and was no stranger to tornados. To me they had mystical powers, knocking a roof off of one house, leaving another house unscathed, and a third ripped all apart. Whenever it would rain my … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Exhibits, Linda Meyers, Mid-America Science Museum, Museum of Discovery, Try this at home!
Tagged activity, arkansas, at-home, design, education, exhibit, fun, learning, museum, science, STEM, tornado, Try this at home, video, vortex, weather
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Can you feel the heat? Not only can you feel it, you can see it…
Have you been to one of our partner museums when the Heat Camera was there? It is definitely a crowd favorite, and it’s fun to watch people discover things about their body they didn’t know. At the Heat Camera, you … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Exhibits, Linda Meyers, Mid-America Science Museum, Museum of Discovery, Try this at home!
Tagged activity, arkansas, body, education, exhibit, fun, heat, heat camera, infrared, learning, museum, science, STEM, Try this at home, video
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A siren’s call so irresistible, I just had to blog
I have, for some weeks now, heard a gentle siren’s call. It whispers in my ear, “If you write it, they will read it.” It beckons me to my computer with a sound, not unlike… well, whining. And the strange … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Joel Gordon, Museum of Discovery
Tagged arkansas, exhibit, fun, learning, museum, science, STEM
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Have you ever wanted to make a cloud? With Cloud Rings, you can!
One of the most popular exhibits at the Museum of Discovery is Arkansas Discovery Network’s Cloud Rings. It is a lot of fun to see how high your cloud can go, and equally fun for me to see kids, adults, … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Exhibits, Linda Meyers, Museum of Discovery, Try this at home!
Tagged activity, arkansas, at-home, cloud, education, exhibit, fun, learning, museum, science, STEM, Try this at home, volcano, vortex
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Swimming with Sharks
So it has been over a month since my last blog entry. You may have heard that if a shark stops swimming it may die? Well I have felt kind of like that lately, not the dying part, but the not … Continue reading
Bringing Educators Together at Network Workshop
One of the missions of the Arkansas Discovery Network is capacity building at the partner museums, to improve upon what they offer the public. One way we do that is with Educator Workshops. A few weeks ago educators from around … Continue reading
Posted in Arkansas State University Museum, Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas, Brenda Hengel, Diane LaFollette, Discovery Zone, Linda Meyers, Lynne Hehr, Mid-America Science Museum, Mindy Porter, Museum of Discovery, Nanotechnology, Professional Development, Texarkana Museums System
Tagged arkansas, education, educator, exhibit, fun, learning, museum, nanotechnology, outreach, Professional Development, science, STEM, workshop
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Succumbing to the blogging pressure can be fun
To blog, or not to blog, that is my question. Due to the pressure that I have been subject to (you know who you are), I have succumbed. So here goes. I am the always smiling, always pleasant receptionist here … Continue reading
Posted in Jacqueline Reese, Museum of Discovery
Tagged arkansas, Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, museum, receptionist, science
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I ♥ You, Or a Valentine’s Day Anatomy Lesson
When I first started working at the Museum of Discovery a hundred years ago, I was tasked with developing the Museum’s health classes using funding from a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The greatest perk of that job was … Continue reading
Posted in Diane LaFollette, Museum of Discovery, Uncategorized
Tagged anatomy, arkansas, education, heart, learning, lesson, museum, science, STEM
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If Children were classified as Animals…
Hello, citizens, and welcome to the sarcastic portion of the Arkansas Discovery Network’s weekly blog posts. My name is Nichole Ashley, and I am the Museum of Discovery’s Animal Care person. This basically means that I am paid to play … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Museum of Discovery, Nichole Ashley
Tagged animal, animal chinchilla mice parrot, arkansas, collections, education, fun, learning, museum, science, STEM
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Happy Groundhog’s Day… just how much do you know about this rodent?
Educator/Animal Tech is one of the most fun jobs I have ever had. Let me introduce myself. I am Susan Bennett and I have worked at the Museum of Discovery for almost 20 Years. Did you know the Museum of … Continue reading
Posted in Museum of Discovery, Susan Bennett
Tagged animal, arkansas, education, groundhog, groundhogs day, learning, museum, outreach, science, STEM, woodchuck
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