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Jun 01, 2012 (Friday) - Aug 01, 2012 (Wednesday)
Spark!Lab Cart Activities
During the summer, Spark!Lab will be offering some our most popular activities at the National Museum of American. The carts will be out on the floor at various times Mondays through Thursdays. Keep an eye out for our purple shirts!
Activities include:
Now What? Invention Activity Cart
In this interactive game, visitors use their problem-solving skills (and senses of humor) to answer the question, "Now what?" Players are given a problem and then specific materials to use to solve that problem. Thinking creatively to find an answer allows visitors to experience the kind of playful and flexible thinking that inventors, designers, and other creative people use all the time.
Star-Spangled Banner Activity Cart
These brief, quickly-facilitated activities highlight the innovative uses of chemistry and textile manufacturing during the creation of the Star-Spangled Banner. Visitors learn that the flag is not only an enduring national icon, but the direct result of the best available technology and expertise of the time. The cart offers two activities: "Star-Spangled Banner: The Technique of Natural Dyeing" and "Zoom In: Textiles and Fabrics of the Star-Spangled Banner."
Electricity Activity Cart
Working with the trained cart facilitator, visitors recreate historic electrical experiments that resulted in the invention of Ben Franklin's lightning rod, Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulb, and Nikola Tesla's wireless power transmission (Tesla Coil). The activities also highlight these inventors' innovative contributions to daily life. Visitors may chose to safely experience electricity by touch, sound, and smell. Visitors may also choose to experience and exciting but harmless static electric shock.
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