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Science, next stop of the morning, was a new addition to the class trip and a welcome break from the “Don’t Touch” and “Be Quiet” adominations required at most places we visited during the three days. Controlled confusion best describes the special “Discovery Room’* at the museum. With hordes of other students, our kids rushed to discover.
They took turns generating electricity by pedaling bicycles hooked up to electric ights—a great idea for essening our dependence on Foreign oil if only we can tgure out a way to store ome of that youthful energy. Another big attraction was i telescope through which the Lids viewed scale models of he solar system and magined themselves as lommander Kirk and Doctor tpock leading the Enterprise o new worlds where no man las ever gone before. Tables of fossils and rocks Irew scores of fingers. Boys md girls rubbed talc, admired shiny black basalt and ieid purple crystals up to :atch the light. From shelves, they took boxes of touchable sxhibits—seas shells, minerals, semi-precious gems and pieces of pelt from Virginia’s defferent furbearing animals.
Other exhibits let youngsters demonstrate principles of vibration by rubbing bows back and forth across plates of glass covered with sand. Hollywood hopefuls made their own movies, drawing figures on panels of paper and then watching reflections on mirrors as the drawings spun
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