I visited California Science Center in Los Angeles on Thursday October, 26. After visiting the Museum, I decided to take my class to the museum in near future. One the reason that I would like to go there again is to make them interested in science, available interesting exhibits, where students physically experience and interaction with each other. Students can spend at least half day and enjoy every minute of this visit. This museum has different section that any student can be interested. They can feel free to walk by themselves or as a group. The information regarding any subject is easily available to visitors. As a science teacher, I know how these activities are valuable to students which can make them interested in learning science subjects. Take the see through escalator, or the elevator, to the second level for the World of Life gallery featuring interactive exhibits that show there are basic functions all living things must do in order to survive. Younger kids will enjoy watching incubated eggs hatch into baby chicks or tadpoles turn into frogs. This place has a lot of things to see as well as things to play around with. I recommend for people who like to learn by doing. MUMMIES EXHIBIT - very cool!
There is a food court area on the first level with McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and the Rose Garden Cafe. There are plenty of indoor tables as well as outdoor picnic tables. Don't forget to stop by the beautiful Rose Garden and fountain outside; I have my lunch at this garden. I am obsessed with mummies and this one was a pretty good one. In this place also are Lots of baby mummies, which I'd never seen before, and more non-Egyptian/Middle Eastern mummies than I expected. It is very neat. Parking is $8 per car. It was not too crowded although most of the rooms were small. It seems like a great place to be spend time looking, watching, and playing. I probably won't go again unless I'm showing some guest around, but I do like and enjoy this place. They event built a huge tank filled with different forms of sea life swimming about. Professional divers jump in at scheduled times to feed all the creatures and put on a mini spectacle for your viewing pleasure. I must say, the ecosystems exhibit was quite impressive. They have added a lot of new exhibits since my last visit and I especially enjoyed the coastal habitat aquarium that reminded me somewhat of the Monterrey Bay Aquarium.