Our visit to the OSC and our personal impressions:

First, when you come to the Science Centre you have to pay the entrance price. An adult must pay $14 , kids $8 and teenagers $10. We think that is too expensive for students, because there are no discounts. The first exhibition hall you come to is the galaxy room and the space area. There you can see lots of films, pictures and presentations about aerospace around the world. For example, you can hear the sound of the milky way. There are a few different kinds of very interesting experiments you can do here. There is a model of a rotating black hole. You can press a button and then a ball rolls into the black hole. You can see very well how long it takes until something disappears in a black hole.
After this part of the Science Centre, you go downstairs into the next hall. But first, you come to the kids park and a radio station, where you can see through a window how a radio show is produced.
The next exhibition hall is about the human body. It is really very interesting to see how human blood works or how human bones look.
In the same hall, there is a section about energy. There, the Science Centre explains how energy is made or stored. There are experiments where you can make energy by muscle power by turning a wheel.
The next section is about chemistry. It is not hard is understand that many of the experiments would be difficult to do yourself, but there is a show where someone conducts chemical experiments for the visitors and explains what he is doing. For example he freezes things with liquid carbon dioxide.
The biggest hall tells about biology and nature. Here you can watch living animals. There are fish swimming in an artificial reef and snakes and iguanas in big aquariums. There is also an artificial rain forest, where you can walk through and look at the big plants. The air humidity and the temperature in this rain forest is so high that you are happy when you leave it after 5 minutes.
After that you can watch presentations and films about air pollution and the problem of too much garbage in the world.
Before leaving the Ontario Science Centre, you come to the sports and fun section. There you can watch really funny experiments. There is an very large bell from china and very modern keyboards that you can play.
The newest Attreaction is the "IMAX" Dome Theatre were you can see and feel the "FORCES OF NATURE".
When you leave the Ontario Science Centre, we are sure, you will have learnt a lot of things you did not know before . So, when you are in Toronto, visit the Science Centre! It is really a lot of fun. But you will need a lot of time to see everything.

We enjoyed our trip to the Ontario Science Centre and we hope you will too.
Martin Jung and David Kolb


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