Get hooked at Discovery Science Center's summer exhibition
Pirates - featuring Treasure!

May 25 to Sept. 9, 2007

Discovery Science Center presents an exhibition on the science of pirates. Pirates – featuring Treasure! will feature hands-on activities that include panning for gold, knot tying and hunting for treasure!

Guests will take an adventure back in time to understand the life of a pirate. Learn about famous pirates such as Ann Bonne, Blackbeard and Hippolyte de Bouchard. Explore the principles of sailing and how the stars are used in navigation.

The educational goal of the Treasure! portion of the exhibition is to answer the questions: What is treasure? Who hunts for treasure? Why do they hunt treasure? How do people hunt for treasure? On a personal level, the exhibit also provokes the question what do you treasure?

Hands-on activities allow guests the chance to try tools of treasure hunting and investigate treasures. Guests may operate a Remote Operated Vehicle, experiment with metal detectors, calculate their weight in gold and learn about the Global Positioning System and geocaching.

Special exhibit features include actual artifacts from shipwrecks and other treasure sites.

The learning stations include lessons on: Floating and Sinking ~ Buoyancy; Navigation ~ using a sextant and hand-held GPS; Cartesian Diver~ demonstrating gas laws and buoyancy; Knots ~ what they are used for; and Sails of Boats.

For more information visit: www.discoverycube.org