City on the Move
Count, touch, manipulate, experiment, and explore: that’s what science is all about! Take a journey through science, math, and technology in this exhibit, based on the City of Chicago.
Things to Do:
- Make fascinating shapes with elastic bands on the Sears Tower Geoscraper.
- Create patterns on a giant manhole-shaped pegboard.
- Design city scenes with geometric shapes.
- Explore place value by using Base 10 blocks to build skyscrapers.
- Place numbers on the balance scale to experiment with computation.
- Watch time-lapse videos of various areas in Chicago to find out how people spend their days.
- Roll balls down vertical paths to test gravity.
- Crank a wheel to create electricity to power a pretend John Hancock Center.
- Manipulate with magnets and test positive and negative poles.
- Connect interlocking gears to make a clock tell time.
- Discover whether balls, eggs, cones, blocks or other objects will float on jet streams of air.
Learning Outcomes:
- Solve numeric equations.
- Explore and create patterns and geometric shapes.
- Explore and describe times of day.
- Create structures and relate them to numbers and place value.
- Use computers to solve mathematical problems and scientific problems.
- Experiment with the force of gravity.
- Conduct experiments with objects and air-flow.
- Utilize human energy to power a light.
- Explore the properties of magnets.
- Connect gears to power a clock.
Underwritten by ComEd, an Exelon Company
