Plasma Balled...

On the face of it, it sounds like an expensive day out at the best part of 30 bones for me and the kids but we most certainly got our money's worth at the Glasgow Science Centre. When we went to the Museum of Scotland the other week, Bethany and Ewan were always looking for the play bits. The Science Centre is just a huge collection of all the play bits. They loved it.

We played with dinosaur bit, learned about dinosaur poo, made lightening with our hands, moved skeletons with our feet, played with all sorts of oddily shaped mirrors, vortexes and voltages. The place is crammed full of brilliantly designed hands on science experiments.

My personal favourite was the chicken wire/hands experiment. If you place your hands palms together, one on either side, and move them around. Your hands feel silky smooth because you feel the movement of the wire between your hands but your brain takes the sensation of the the rest of your palms not touching wire at anytime and frictionless and your brain fills in the information to make them feel velvety smooth.

I think the biggest testament was that when Bethany was asked her favourite part, she couldn't work it out although I think she did get particular blast out of the vortext tunnel. It is a dark tunnel with a star painted background that spins round the sides as you walk through. A bit disorientating but she thought was her personal rocket.