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Thursday 19th January 2006

Science Museum

In the morning we travelled to the Science Museum in Kensington to see an
exhibition about aliens. The exhibition displayed popular ideas as to what
aliens may look like, how they have been portrayed in the media and on TV
and how they might live.
We saw a very early metal diving suit which looked like an alien from a
film. We saw displays of strange creatures, many from deep in the oceans
that could easily been mistaken for aliens. There were also pictures of
dinosaurs, which long ago were thought to be ancient aliens. We looked at
how animals in our world have evolved according to their environment and how
aliens might similarly evolve.
Before we left there was an opportunity to "send" a question to an alien
world, which was displayed on a big screen along with a photo of the sender.
I asked if aliens believed in God and enjoyed this bit best.

After lunch and a play in the hands on basement area we walked around the
corner to the Natural History Museum. My Mum was determined that we should
all see the ancient cocoa pod that Hans Sloan had collected to follow up our
recent project on Fair Trade products and included the manufacture of
chocolate over the ages. After several failed attempts to find it, we were
shown into the Herbevarium which is a behind the scenes store of pressed
plants and flowers collected by Hans Sloane and others like him. The room
contained over 300 huge books full of collections of pressed plants. The
books were housed in glass display cabinets and carefully labelled. We were
very surprised to see how well preserved the plants were after sometimes,
hundreds of years. The curator was very happy that we were so interested
and told us lots about the collections, we also had a great opportunity to
ask lots of questions.

By Christy Low

Science Museum

We went to the science museum and saw Aliens of the Deep in 3D. After that there was a lecture about aliens and where we might find them, like the moon off Jupiter called Europa and Saturn’s moon Titan, which has a lot of methane. During the lecture someone asked “what would happen if you light a match on Titan?” The answer was “you go up there and do it if you like I’ll stay here and watch!”

The film was brilliant. It made my mum jump as in one of the scenes a squid shoots past the submarine window and it looks as if its going to get you.

By Patrick Dawe