Introduction
Welcome to the Pacific Science Center. This interactive _______ is an independent, not-for-profit educational institution that inspires lifelong interest in science, math and technology by engaging diverse communities through interactive and innovative exhibits and programs (intext). Through this webquest you will be researching and discovering six different exhibits, each with its own ______. Click on the word map and view page two for blue print and click the word video to watch an introduction.
Task
Exhibit 1 – Sonic Bloom
This powered art installation of five flowers up to 33 feet tall glow when the sun shines through the petals during the day and light up at night. Solar panels power the lighting. As guests walk through the exhibit the towering flowers hum to life. Your task for is to discover where solar energy goes and the Earths energy budget.
Exhibit 2 – Dinosaurs – A Journey Through Time
Visitors can travel back in time to the Mesozoic Era, where they will meet seven moving, roaring, robotic dinosaurs in a lifelike environment. They can also stand in the footprint of a giant duckbill dinosaur, take the controls of the Pneumoferrosaurus -- "Air and Iron Lizard" -- to see how animatronic dinosaurs work, and explore the Mesozoic world with interactive exhibits, real fossils, dioramas and more. Your task is to complete the dinosaur name game and find out how each dinosaur got its name.
Exhibit 3 – Tropical Butterfly House
The Tropical Butterfly House features year-round sunshine. Temperatures are in the low 80s, humidity is 60 to 70 percent, and full-spectrum lighting keeps the plants and butterflies healthy. Visitors can watch beautiful, exotic butterflies fly, sun themselves, and feed among tropical flowers. See a brand-new butterfly emerge in the chrysalis viewing window. Your task is to discover what jobs the adult butterfly has and to define a butterfly’s behaviour.
Exhibit 4 – Puget Sound Model and Salt Water Tide Pool
Explore the life and science of northwest Washington's large and ecologically diverse estuary, Puget Sound. See real tides and currents in action at the 100-square-foot scale model of the sound. See and touch living Puget Sound animals in the saltwater tide pool. Your task is to describe all the wildlife in the Puget sound.
Exhibit 5 – Science Playground
How does an electric motor work? What does a gyroscope do? Who wins the bubble race? Find the answers to these and other questions in the Science Playground. Your task is to explain the Right-Hand Rule and demonstrate it.
Exhibit 6 – Body Works
Find out how your body works in Body Works. Test your reaction time. See how much energy you produce on the Calorie Bicycles. Try out the computer games in the Nutrition Cafe and many other interactive exhibits. You task is to complete the How Your Body Works Scavenger Hunt.
Process
Exhibit 1
Click on the U.S. DOE banner and go to page 15 to find your task. Use the chart provided to help answer the questions. The other picture provided discusses the Earth’s energy balance and will help provide more answer to the questions.
Exhibit 2
Most dinosaurs get their names from Greek or Latin. For this task click of the first picture of the dinosaurs and then go to page three to find your assignment. The Dinosaur Name Game. Then click on the other two dinosaur pictures to open up links to how dinosaurs got their names and their meanings. You will use both links by taking the meaning of the dinosaur name provided and find the Greek or Latin names.
Exhibit 3
Click on the picture of the black and white butterfly to answer the two questions: An adult butterflies have two basic jobs, what are they and how long do they live? Click on the blue butterfly to help define the following butterfly behaviors: puddling, spiraling, eating fruit, sunning and emergence.
Exhibit 4
Click both pictures to open links to what animals live in and around the Puget Sound. Use both links to list all of the wildlife found living in the estuary and on the land around it. For the second link use the wildlife index provided to see marine animals live there.
Exhibit 5
Watch the video by clicking on the title below. After viewing the video, click the picture of the Right-Hand Rule. While viewing the link write an explanation of the Right-Hand Rule and with a partner recreate the demonstration with the provided copper wire.
Exhibit 6
Click the green How The Body Works banner to find your scavenger hunt questions for how the body works. Next click the picture of the different body part and the man running to find the resources to answer the questions.