The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes at COSI

On our most recent visit to COSI, we went and saw The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes for Kenneth's birthday. Kenneth is a big fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's writing. He recently finished reading all of Doyle's work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson and is now working on The Lost World. We both love the BBC's Sherlock. We were both excited to check this exhibition out! Watch a short preview of the exhibition below:

COSI - The Center of Science and Industry

COSI, the Center of Science and Industry is a #1 nationally ranked science museum, right here in Columbus (Parent Magazine gave COSI this #1 rating in 2008). I first visited COSI on a field trip with my 6th grade class. I don't remember everything about the trip, but I know we had a blast! We watched an IMAX film about the Blue Angels and checked out COSI's various exhibits. The one I remember the most was the exhibit, Progress, which is still at COSI today. When I was a 6th grader I thought the 1898 version of the town was really cool, even though my friends and I spent most of our time in the 1962 side, making our own news broadcast and getting our picture taken at the vintage gas station. It was an exciting trip to Columbus for a bunch of small town kids!

Bee Buzz 2 & 3

Bees are awesome!  In addition to making honey, they also pollinate a ton of food we eat, from apples to tomatoes to buckwheat!  They're also beautiful insects - check out these amazing images of native American bees from Wired Science. 

Mad Botanist Experiment

The 2013 season of summer camp started today at the Conservatory!  This week I am teaching Green Thumb, a camp that focuses on 'all things green' for 6 to 11 year olds.  We do a few 'mad botanist' experiments and this is the final product of our "Taking Out the Color" experiment.  The green liquid in the glass is chlorophyll in rubbing alcohol, which we removed from the brownish-green leaf on the left by boiling it briefly in water then letting it sit in the rubbing alcohol.  The experiment we did is very similar to this Chlorophyll Experiment from ThinkQuest.