Kids Place
Dental Gallery
The Electric Theater
Medical and Health Sciences
Hands-on Physics Gallery
Tenet Rescue Unit
Imaginature
Laser Lab
The Dino Dig !
T-Rex, Bronty, and Baby Bronty are moving, roaring, life-like robot dinosaurs that delight and inform visitors of all ages in the Dino Dig area. The exhibit hall also includes a hydraulic dinosaur skeleton in metal that visitors can control at their command.
Learn more about dinosaurs in EduScience!
Kids Place
This is the perfect place for kids up to age seven to play with their favorite adult companion while receiving a positive outlook on science.
Hands-on math counts a lot in the Numbers Forest.
Kids can build their dream playhouse in Building Things.
Communication takes on a number of different forms in Senses.
Waterworks features real water with small boats, floats and other seafaring playthings.
Dental Gallery
Join us at The Science Place's Dental Gallery, featuring puppets, great hands-on displays promoting dental health and Tony Toothbot, a charming robot tooth!
Want an acitvity that preschoolers and elementary-age students can really get their teeth into? Then check out this new gallery. The new space, just around the corner from the popular Kids Place exhibits, opened February 15, 1997.
The puppet show is staged in a theater featuring mobile lips that speak or sing along with the action. Participants sit on little chairs shaped like teeth!
Where else can you learn to brush, brush, brush your teeth with interactive video, fight plaque, and smile all the while? Special programs are available -- drop in anytime, or call to book a special program for any preschool/elementary age group: (214) 428-555, ext. 343 or 344.
The Electric Theater
Join us for the most popular live science demonstration at The Science Place, the TXU Electric Theater, daily at 2:30 pm! We pack in the history of 4,000 years worth of discoveries and inventions in an engaging, exciting way, inviting kids to participate in a series of electrical experiments, including:
- Thales' discovery of magnetism and static electricity
- Van Guericke's static generating experiments
- The invention of the Van der Graaff static generator
- Volta's direct current battery
- Ampere's electromagnetic coil
- Faraday's alternating current generator
- Henry's step-down and step-up transformers
- Nikolai Tesla's high voltage, high frequency lightning machine
- This show will stand your hair right up! Watch 10' lightning bolts arc
through the air! In the TXU Electric Theater, history is a blast!
- The TXU Electric Theater is available for school group reservations
year-round.
Learn more about electricity in EduScience!
Hands-On Physics Gallery
The J. Erik Jonsson Physical Sciences Exhibition features more than 75 modules that demonstrate the FUNdamentals of physics and mathematics. Visitors provide the motivating force (energy + curiosity) and explore exhibits at their own pace.
Everyone is a scientist! Enjoy the opportunity to sit down and experiment with simple, interactive physics and chemistry equipment at our Bosque Interactive Lab in the Hands on Physics Gallery.
The Tenet Rescue Unit
An actual ambulance of the type used by rescue squads, designed with teaching in mind. Explore the science and technology of emergency medicine, and learn what happens if an ambulance has to come to your neighborhood. Sit behind the wheel of the Tenet Rescue Unit ambulance. The Tenet Rescue Unit is made possible by the Tenet Healthcare Foundation.
For more information on Tenet In Texas, visit their website at www.tenettexas.com.
Imaginature
Imaginature, a special place for children and adults to experience life in the rain forest, to discover and observe animal architects at work, and to see animals in their habitats:
The budgie cage containing several Australian parakeets.
Also the beehive, featuring worker bees expanding and repairing their hive.
The beaver lodge, made up of sticks from an abandoned lodge found at Lake Lewisville.
An animal dress-up area, where kids can try on spiders, butterflies, and other critters.
Fish tanks, both salt and fresh waters.
The butterfly garden, where chrysalises develop into butterflies.
The Laser Lab
Lucent Technologies Laser Lab is a state-of-the-art classroom space to promote technology education for thousands of North Texas school-age children. Lucent Technologies has sponsored the Lab with a $100,000 grant in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the invention of the laser at Bell Labs in 1958. The grant from Lucent has renovated existing building space for use by the public and area schools. The amphitheater-style lab/classroom space includes new media equipment, computers, monitors, and other hands-on demonstration equipment. More than 120,000 school-age children annually will enjoy the lab for organized programming and educational camp-ins.
Science demonstrations presented daily include:
Daily Demonstrations at 1:00 pm. LASER! probes the properties of light, familiar to all of us yet so strange in its nature. Light, the fastest thing in the universe! You can digitize a stream of photons and hurl your voice through a flexible glass thread! Explore light with us, from Newton’s rudimentary breakthrough experiments with prisms to the latest use of Lasik technology for vision correction.
Medical and Health Sciences Exhibit
This interactive exhibit educates everybody about every body and is the first science center that addresses the changes and challenges of life. Visitors can bend a giant arm to see the inner workings; or steer a truck that simulates driving while under the influence of drugs and alcohol; or learn about the brain, eyes, ears and heart.