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Permanent Exhibits
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Watts Up with Energy?
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Discover the power of energy. This exciting exhibit for all
ages explores sustainable energy, energy conservation and the
importance of energy with hands-on activities.
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Sculpture on Learning Campus
- Take a walk around Learning Campus and
discover the hidden art. Do you know how many pieces of sculpture
are located on the Campus?
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| Amazing Acres
— Learn about weather and agriculture! Touch a 10-foot
tornado, create a cloud,
and learn about precipitation from local
meteorologists.
Shop in the convenience store and pump bio-fuel at the station.
Climb a tree house, crawl through the giant tree trunk,
or plant vegetables in the garden.
"Drive" a John Deere combine cab through the cornfields at harvest
time. Major sponsorship for this exhibit comes from
Deere and Company,
Modern Woodmen
of America,
Roy J. Carver Charitable
Trust,
Scott
County Regional Authority,
Community Foundation of the Great
River Bend, and the
John Deere Classic.
Click here for
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Rhythm Alley
— This gallery rocks with sound,
music and a psychedelic shawdowbox called Split Images. The Wacky
Mirrors interactive exhibit takes your image and breaks it up in
ways that will amaze you. Make your own kind of music on a Clavinova or with a bicycle wheel in a whimsical area called Happenstanza. Music Makers
features five kinds of music and stories about key people who make the music happen.
Dancing lights, a pinball music machine, the pentaphone and musical gizmos are all part of
this up-beat world of musical adventures.
Click here for
suggested books about music |
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The Garden
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The under-age
5
set will be attracted to this child's garden of fun created especially for them.
Imaginations will run wild in the two-story Bear's Playhouse, the "sand" table
(filled with small plastic beads,) velcro wall, foam building blocks,
and activity areas with
age-appropriate
toys. A climbing maze will amaze the
little ones.
Parents
and caregivers can gather and interact while the children explore and learn.
Click here for
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"Kingdom for Kids" Playground
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For active kids of all ages, the outdoor
"Kingdom for Kids"
Playground, has things to climb, slide down, swing across, go up and down and slither
around. Sponsored and built by Saturn Corporation with design help
by local youngsters, the playground is the centerpiece of the courtyard which also features a
natural amphitheater, gazebo
picnic area,
outdoor
program area and floral plantings.
A new waterplay facility
called "Grandpa's Fountain" lets kids have wet fun with faucets, buckets,
troughs, bowls, funnels and floating toys. The courtyard
is
open whenever weather permits
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