05-23 Museum

We took a trip to the Mayborn Museum in Waco Texas.  We had 3 teens and 6 elementary from our Eagles homeschool group.  

There were sixteen themed Discovery Rooms with hands-on activities, these rooms were designed to invigorate young imaginations and introduce them to the worlds of Vertebrates, Invertebrates, Communication, Health, Water and Bubbles, Energy, Optics, and Sound, among others. We walked through a model of the human heart, we learned how to "communicate" in hieroglyphics, we played a tune on the walk-on piano, and tried  reporting the TV news and weather.

Gabe thought he heard a toilet flushing in the shell and Mic enjoyed the typing on the type writer. Not sure if she had ever seen one before.

Then we explored along the Crossroads journey which was made up of traditional and walk-in dioramas as well as exploration stations-this interactive experience guided us through the natural science and cultural history of Central Texas.  The walk-in dioramas included a Limestone Cave, a Texas Forest, and the Waco Mammoth Experience. At the Waco Mammoth exhibit, we walked on a see-through floor to look down upon casts of the Columbian mammoth bones displayed exactly as they were unearthed at the Waco Mammoth Site, just 5 miles from the Baylor Campus.

Lastly we explored Governor Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village.  We saw and old lawyers office, walked through a general store, sat in an old school house and an old church building.  A fun time was had by all.