Hall Around the World with Scotland
November 2, 2009
What would happen to a fish in space? Would it float out of the water? This was on the mind of a student in Ms. Drysdale’s class at the Colinton Primary School in Scotland. This question eventually found its way to our departments’ twitter account. After consulting with some of our educators, we were able to provide the student with an answer but why should we stop there? We felt this would be a great opportunity to establish a Virtual Visit connection and help answer any other questions the students had about our solar system.
Helping me answer the students questions during the day of the program was fellow co-worker Adiel Fernandez. Adiel and I were very impressed with how all of these students thought completely “out of the box”. Here are some examples of the questions they had: Why do we have space and what is it for? How did planets come about? What would Mars look like if you cut it in half?
Both The New York Hall of Science and Ms. Drysdale’s class had an excellent time together and hope we can establish other connections in the near future.
