2008- New!
Curious Kids' Museum, in partnership with Indiana and Michigan Power- Cook Energy Center, and Entergy-Palisades Power Plant, has developed a new exhibit featuring "How Electricity is Made" through the Nuclear Power Process, and alternative sources of energy from wind power, hydropower and solar power for a futuristic experience.
Imagine hauling water for the day's cooking from a lake or stream several miles away- as families do in Africa, South America and other places in the world. Imagine no television, computers, electrical motors, healthcare operations, manufacturing, or traveling comfortably: electricity affects our lives completely. This little-known process of producing electricity is hidden from most of us. On surveys, teachers have said it is one of their hardest to teach subjects. Few real tools are available to help children really get it. Curious Kids' Museum is undertaking the goal of helping 70,000 visitors, school children and area families understand the science of making electricity in a fun learning and memorable way. All classroom students, visitors and Curious Classroom Curriculum units gain new discoveries about the science of energy through this electricity exhibit which has been designed to meet teaching objectives of teachers.
In this virtual reality experience, each child is encouraged to BE the atom. The power, starting first as the energy released when enriched uranium atoms split during fission. Then this energy converts to heat that turns water into steam. The steam moves the turbine blades… that spin the shaft…that turns the coils of wire in the magnetic field…that generates the electricity that is transformed across the power lines into communities and homes where it is used 24 hours a day.!
