ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** Many years ago when we had a big exhibit on china we made "muffins" out of wax. We gave a muffin to each student to carve a chinese letter into and they could use that as a stamp on rice paper. You might want to make a set of stamps to have on the floor that kids could use to stamp names or words. I remember it being quite popular. Lynn Daniels, Alissa wrote: >ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers >Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. >***************************************************************************** > >We at Boston Children's Museum are getting ready for a new exhibit about China. Our plan is to develop lots of related program in all our content areas, including science. I know China is responsible for a whole lot of inventions and engineering ideas including papermaking, printing, suspeension bridges, as well as a lot of advances in medicine, cartography and navigation. > >I"m looking for help in turning some of these ideas into managable floor activities. For example, how does one do Chinese papermaking? (as opposed to making paper from other paper, which a lot of us know how to do) If you have knowledge of some great China originated science or technology, I'd love to hear about it and/or how you would do a hands-on activitiy with it. > >thanks! >AD > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager >Boston Children's Museum >617-426-6500 x342 >www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org >The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..." --Isaac Asimov >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >*********************************************************************** >For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. > >Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at www.exhibitfiles.org. > >The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. To learn more, visit >http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. > >To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the >message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to >[log in to unmask] > > > > *********************************************************************** For information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers and the Informal Science Education Network please visit www.astc.org. Check out the latest case studies and reviews on ExhibitFiles at www.exhibitfiles.org. The ISEN-ASTC-L email list is powered by LISTSERVR software from L-Soft. To learn more, visit http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html. To remove your e-mail address from the ISEN-ASTC-L list, send the message SIGNOFF ISEN-ASTC-L in the BODY of a message to [log in to unmask]