Last 7th of May, I went to the Ontario Science Centre, in Don Mills Road, with my classmates and another sixth-grade class. We took the TTC to get there, and it wasn’t as far as I thought it was, surprisingly.
As soon as we got there, my class and the other class went different ways. They had a scheduled Planetarium visit. However, we had free-time before Ontario Science Centre’s Space presentation. We walked down to the Restaurant Valley place and ate lunch. I originally wanted to buy some chips, but they were SO EXPENSIVE! One bag of chips was $ 2.25 (tax included) and it wasn’t even one of those big ones. It was so small, it could fit into my little lunch box.
After we ate some early lunch, we walked on over to an exhibit I don’t really know the name of. It had a lie-detecting machine in it, though. We played around, asking silly questions and we all laughed at ourselves. Unfortunately, we had to move on to another exhibit. This one I know the name of. It was the Human Body Exhibit. We saw different stages of human life, from excruciatingly painful birth to depressing death.
Then, we went to a workshop where we saw some interesting facts about astronaut life and space and we answered some space-related polls. Astonishingly, most of my class and the other sixth-grade class that came with us didn’t want to be astronauts. When we were asked the first time, around 60-80% didn’t want to be, but at the end, more people didn’t want to have careers that may include sacrificing their lives in the name of science and our own curiosity. Fair enough, I guess.
Shortly after the first workshop, we headed to the Planetarium. There were bean bags on the floor, many but not enough for 27 kids. We all raced to get our own. Fortunately, I managed to snag one near a corner. Above us was a huge dome-shaped screen. We started by looking at stars and constellations that are visible to us from the ground, then we moved on to other planets and the zodiac constellations. We learned so many things, including the fact that we have over 100 billion galaxies in our universe.
Overall, my trip to the Ontario Science Centre was the most educational yet fun trip I had yet. It might be bumped down to second-best, though, since I have one last school trip before the school year ends.
See you soon! Ciao!