Field Trip Guide Engineering and Simple Machines Technology/Engineering
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Reinforce student learning by asking questions such as: • What do you notice? • Why do you think that? • How do you know? • Have you ever seen anything like this before?
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L2 Level 2 GREEN WING BLUE WING THE GREEN WING, LEVEL 2 IS CLOSED for construction of the Museum's newest large-scale exhibit, the Hall of Human Cahners Art & Science Life. Please check mos.org for updates. Theater Gallery Butterfly Garden L3 Level 3 Seeing Is Deceiving • Weems Sculptures • Brad Washburn Exhibit • Bees Hall of Human Life Take Green Wing Opening elevator UP to Level 3 Special Exhibits Late 2013 Bridge Closed Theater of (from LL or L1) Main entry via Soundstair Wright The Light Electricity Red Wing, Level 1 Theater House Investigate! Ongoing Renovation
Accessible route via Freight Elevator, 3-D Digital Cinema Science in the Park Museum Then and Now Green Wing, Level 1
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RED WING Math Moves! The Virtual FishTank Engineering Design Workshop
Mapping Making Stearns Hall Charles Hayden GREEN WING Models Special Exhibits Cahners Planetarium ComputerPlace .. CC Discovery Center New England Gordon Innovative Engineers Cosmic Light Habitats Current Science & Technology Center To the Globe Moon Theater of Electricity Simulator Riverview Café Experience Box Mathematica T. Rex Mugar IN Office Omni Theater Atrium ? Polage OUT . CC AD . Soundstair ATM INFO Rocks from Museum Store Around the World Parking Payment
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