Time Travel Trunks and Other Educational Forays

The Make and Take event this week saw another rise in participants. My volunteer and I had over a dozen people come to make clocks. Although most people chose to make CD clocks (normally the clock of choice), we did have more people come make flip flop clocks. This Monday we should have more choices in flip flop colors so hopefully more people will continue to make flip flop clocks. Even before the Make and Take, a local KinderCare group came into the Museum to make their own CD clocks and take a tour of the Museum. We were expecting 20 children, but instead had 23 children. In addition to the Make and Takes, I helped to organize a travel trunk that will be used this Monday at a local camp. The theme is Chinese New Year. To help get the trunk ready, I poked holes in yogurt containers. The yogurt containers are used for water clocks. The yogurt container with two holes in the bottom is taped to the top of a stick (a painter stir sticks is what we are going to use) and clear plastic cup is attached to the bottom of the stick. By using a stopwatch, you can time how much water goes in the cup every fifteen seconds (or whatever amount of time you want to use). I also finished cutting strips of paper to be used for dragon masks and marked five centimeters of plastic cups for the younger group of children at the camp.

One of the Museum's Time Travel Trunks

In the library, I finally finished going through and writing numbers of the back of the James Gibbs Collection. It seems strange to finally have finished going through all of the papers. Now I am working on the Christopher Daniel Collection. Christopher Daniel designed many sundials including Queen Victoria’s Silver Jubilee Dolphin Sundial. I was able to finish Box 1 and start Box 2 of 7.

Sarah, Penn State University
Museum Intern