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Activity: Make a Contemporary Connection to Inventions
Examine the role of innovation in relationship to progress and improvements in lifestyle and consider the impact of these improvements on the environment.
Activity: Twenty-First Century Object
Reimagine an object from the eighteenth or nineteenth century into one for the twenty-first.
Activity: Change and Consequences
Explore the influence that artificial lighting has on everyday life and the environment.
Activity: Candle Math
Explore the relationship between candle light and contemporary lighting from incandescent and fluorescent lamps.
Object Story: A Short History of Lighting
Examine a range of lighting implements from candles and rushlights to oil burning lamps.
Create a Herbarium Specimen
Preserve information about a particular plant for future generations.
Explore Plant Adaptations in Your Community!
Take a walk through your neighborhood, local park, or anywhere else where plants grow. What adaptations do you observe?
Botanical Art
Learn about botanical art and create your own artwork.
Penjing
“The goal is to create the sense of a tree as though you took it out of nature” —Che Zhao Sheng