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I was out at Denver this past fall and the Museum of Science and  
Nature  had a wet sand play area in their space exhibition. If I  
recall correctly it had something to do with the surface of Mars. I  
recall nothing about it that can be helpful to this thread BUT, I did  
take a short video of it on the floor including the cleaning  
facilities nearby and some of people using it. I would be happy to  
forward it off list to anyone who wants it and my experience with the  
staff at the museum have been wonderful. I am sure they would be  
happy to answer questions.

Note that I took it as a tourist and am passing it along for  
information only. There are no permissions given to anyone by anyone  
(including the people in the video)to air publicly.

Just wanted to add that.

Matt White


On Mar 9, 2006, at 8:53 PM, Sara DeAngelis wrote:

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> Hi Jonah,
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> You may want to talk with Karen Bertschi at OMSI who has prototyped  
> a sand
> and water-play activity.  Very dangerous combo!  Bay Area has a  
> wonderful
> gravel play area if your interested.  Last though is to talk to  
> talk to
> folks who do playground design about sand-play.  Literature from the
> European adventure playgrounds is good for both sand and soil  
> play.  Roger
> Hart from CUNY has some older articles on that.
>
> Best,
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> Sara
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>> From: Jonah Cohen <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 13:37:14 -0500
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>> Subject: Sand Play Areas
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>> I've been doing some looking into water play areas, and in a  
>> presentation at
>> last year's ACM conference, came across this tidbit from the San Jose
>> Children's Discovery Museum (home of a slammin' water play area -  
>> I am WAY
>> too amused that they have a component named "the ball-cano"):
>>
>>
>>
>> "Water Play is one of the most open-ended and appropriate play  
>> [types] for
>> children (along with clay and sand play)"
>>
>>
>>
>> I've seen many water play areas, and I've seen many individual  
>> exhibit
>> components that use sand... but I don't recall ever seeing a "sand  
>> play"
>> area comparable to a water play one. Anyone know of any?
>>
>>
>>
>> Jonah Cohen
>>
>> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
>>
>> Science Center of Connecticut
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