Holiday Fun!!!!

With schools out of session, people off from work, and offices becoming ghost towns, communities slow down during the holidays.  That is when things come to life here at the Science Museum of Long Island with our holiday programs.  

While the kids are out of school, we run 6 programs.  Three of these programs have already run:  Diggin’ in to the past where we explored prehistoric life, Amazing Earth, where the focus was on geology, and Nascar, where we discussed science and engineering of cars.   

The days were action packed and could not have gone any better.  We built volcanoes, explored our paleontology lab, used chocolate morsels to simulate the rock cycle, and even built model cars that we raced at the end of the day.  There is always time to register for these programs.  They run from 10 – 3 and will give our child an experience that is not only educational, but fun too. DON'T MISS OUT!!!

Constructing A Cave

Mr. Owen & Ms. Stephanie

The painting of the Cave Room is finally underway! In an exciting undertaking the “Cave Room” or Geology Room is being restored to its former glory. For many years this room was designed to look like a cave to capture the spirit of Geology and awaken buried desire to learn about the things of this Earth. But for the past couple of years the Geology room has been a boring, hospital white, room. It wasn’t until recently that we realized how truly amazing the room used to be. Which shows you to never take anything for granite!

Progress so far

This week has marked the beginning of a project to restore the room to its more cave-like state. The walls are being painted slate gray with pockets of brown to accommodate some paintings of burrowing animals. Stalactites will hang down from the ceiling surrounded by (fake) hanging bats. This room is truly going to Rock.

And if you didn’t catch all of the Earth Science puns then here is a Geology joke just for you.

Watson: “Holmes, what kind of Rock is this?”

Holmes: “Sedimentary, my dear Watson!!

-Owen