Saturday, November 7, 2009
11/7/2009 02PM-03PM | Ages: All Ages
These hour-long sessions give Adler guests an opportunity to meet astronomers, scientists, and historians in an informal atmosphere, ask questions, and explore visualizations in the SVL, Space Visualization Lab, with an expert guide.
Check http://www.adlerplanetarium.org for further scheduling information.
11/7/2009 09AM-02PM | Ages: 5 and up
Get ready to have a GREAT day of hands-on activities to build skills useful to DI teams! ILDI and Goodman Theater are joining forces to create a variety of "stations" for the teams to experience. It's the best of science integrated with the arts!!
Try out:
⢠Structure building and testing for Rising Stars and teams considering Challenge E: Breaking DI News
⢠Tools, tools, tools
⢠PVCâ"what can we build?
⢠Mechanical wizardryâ"look at Challenge A: DIrect DIposit and B: DI-Bot
⢠Costumingâ"how to make a character
⢠Improvisation
⢠Trash to treasure
⢠Instant Challenge--how well can you think on your feet? work as a team?
Added BONUS is Destination ImagiNation Team Manager Training Session running concurrently during the workshop. Team Managers, this is great opportunity for you to learn the basics of managing a DI team while another adult or two stays with your team.
11/7/2009 11AM-06PM | Ages: All Ages
What can science tell us about art? Visit LUMA this summer to discover what Joe Barabe, a scientist at McCrone Associates of Westmont, IL, found when he looked at paint samples under a microscope. What were the paints used by this 18th-century artist made of and from where did they come? See too what a painting looks like in an x-ray. Curator, Jonathan Canning and conservator, Maura Checconi, interpret these scientific discoveries in light of the art history and painting practices of 18th-century Spain.
11/7/2009-1/11/2000 09AM | Ages: All Ages
Watch a great white shark capture its prey, follow penguins glide beneath the ice, and take an ocean voyage with seals through Crittercam. Crittercam is a scientific video- and data-gathering tool safely worn by wild animals, offering researchers insights into animal behavior and clues to protecting animals and the world we share. The exhibition focuses on Crittercam's deployment on seals and sea lions, sharks, sea turtles, whales, penguins, bears and lions.
National Geographic Crittercam: The World Through Animal Eyes is organized and traveled by the National Geographic Museum, Washington, DC.
11/7/2009 10AM-01PM | Ages: All Ages
What is more important than the health of our children?
We have many options to reduce the risk of cancer from a healthier diet to prevention therapies. The more information we know about individual cancers, the better we can help ourselves and our children.
Community Engagement Centering on Solutions (CECOS) and Richard J. Daley College are offering you an opportunity to learn more about cervical cancer, and its threat to the women of our community. (CECOS is a program of the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center.)
Join us on Saturday, November 7 at Richard Daley College from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Dr. Rick Kittles, Associate Director for Diversity and Community Outreach, and Dr. Kenneth Alexander, noted HPV researcher and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago, will help us understand the role of the human papillomavirus (HPV) in cancer and how we can protect our families and friends.
The town hall meeting will include discussion of a new vaccine that is effective in preventing cervical cancer. HPV causes more than 99% of all cervical cancers and 100% of genital warts. The vaccine is effective for the types of viruses that cause 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts. We recognize that some people have concerns about the vaccine, and we wish to address these issues together in a thoughtful exchange of ideas.
Please come to our town hall meeting for invaluable information, lively discussion, and refreshments.
What: Our Daughters, Our Duty
When: Saturday, November 7, 2009
10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Where: Richard J. Daley College,
One of the City Colleges of Chicago
7500 South Pulaski Road
Chicago, Illinois 60652
11/7/2009 07PM-09PM | Ages: 9 and up
Are you fascinated with the winter sky? Wish you could see further and further into our glorious universe? Learn to use several tools, your own eyes, binoculars and telescopes to see even more! Test a variety of telescopes and receive your own Galileoscope, the telescope of the International Year of Astronomy. For parents and students grades 3 and up. Telescope included in registration fee.
Instructor: Mary Jo Murphy, Fermilab Education Office
Download a registration form from our website to mail or fax in.
11/7/2009 09AM-04PM | Ages: All Ages
The âGreenest Home in Chicagoâ is back at the Museum of Science and Industry, redesigned and updated for 2009. The home - built by Michelle Kaufmann Designs and built by All-American Homes -- showcases the ways you can make eco-friendly living a part of your life, and highlights what the future may bring for consumers.
Smart Home offers guided tours of the 2,500 square-foot home and grounds. Discover the new interior, reinterpreted with the help of Chicago Home + Garden magazine and featuring bold colors, fresh green stories, and new products and furniture. New and unique home technologies are also on display, courtesy of WIRED magazine. Explore the updated landscaping, which offers techniques for urban gardening such as vertical gardens and EarthBox planting.
11/7/2009 12AM-12PM | Ages: All Ages
From September 2008 â" August 2009, citizens enjoyed unparalleled access to more than 1,200 dynamic in-person science experiences and countless ways to explore and share science on the web. Learn more and enjoy highlights of the Science Chicago year here: http://www.sciencechicago.com/finalreport/
11/7/2009 09AM-01PM | Ages: Adults
Celebrate the 2009-2010 school year with The Field Museum! Explore our permanent exhibitions, including the newly-renovated Grainger Hall of Gems, visit behind-the-scenes with scientists, and delve into hands-on activity stations. The first 300 pre-registered educators who check-in will receive a ticket to our newest temporary exhibition, The Nature of Diamonds. Gather a wealth of information and materials to start your school year off right. Enter the Museum through the East Doors for this event.
11/7/2009 11AM-12PM | Ages: 13 and up
Right now, nuclei are splitting, carbon atoms are rejoining oxygen atoms, generators are turning, transformers are stepping voltages up and down, oil pumpjacks are nodding, refiners are processing, and cars are whirring on numerous highways. Our modern life depends on a bewildering number and variety of transformations of energy. These all act together transparently to provide our everyday conveniences and essentials, and are easy to take for granted. The energy transformations employ many key ideas of physics that have been developed in the last century and a half. Indeed, the emergence of almost every major area of physics went hand-in-hand with the invention of practical devices that define our modern life.
This 70th Compton Lecture Series sponsored by the University of Chicago Enrico Fermi Institute will break several of these technologies down to their essential phenomena, and put those phenomena in the context of the development of physics as a field.
Lecturere Eric Switzer, KICP Fellow/Postdoctoral Scholar in the Enrico Fermi Institute, will review some of the essential physics of energy technologies in an approximately chronological order, from outcomes of electrodynamics and thermodynamics to applications of more modern nuclear and condensed matter physics.
The lectures will take place every Saturday morning from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. beginning October 3, through December 12, 2009.(No lecture on November 28th).
