WHAT IS GOING ON!

At the lesson of April 30th, our instructor made us a surprise and we visited the METU Science and Technology museum. Our trip includes interestingly both past and present. First of all, we began our tour in the past. We entered into the huge tent which includes old models Chevrolets, Mercedes, Pontiac and Citroen cars. ı think this was amazing, because when we compare them to today's car models, the old ones are bigger according to new ones. Also all of them have very bright colors and shining under the spots. Actually, my friends and I spent enjoyable time in that area with old cars, old and very very big computers, medical machines and fax machines. After that we entered another big tent in which objects that belong to past. I saw big rocks from BC years, home models belong to old age, some medical tools and skeleton. I think that all of these details affected me, because when you think that those past years and their ages, it seems so interesting when compared to today or it is weird to think these skeleton's feelings, life styles and friends, families.

We continue to our trip with examining the old telephones, computers, clocks, marine's materials, musical instruments, medical objects and even also typewriters which belong to presidents of Turkey namely, İsmet İnönü, Bülent Ecevit, Ahmet Necdet Sezer. In my opinion, this situation feels me as a bridge between the past and today, because there were both old and new typewriters belongs to many presidents and ministers of Turkey. After that, we entered another tent which includes modern inventions and an instructor gave us information about the experiments. Then we started to try by own self and experimented almost all projects. Actually we had funny time with these projects. we saw ourselves from different size mirrors, I had electricity and due to that my skirt flied a little bit, we tried to solve puzzles, learned heartbeat numbers and so on.

If I make a reflection, I can say that this was not only enjoyable trip but also beneficial for me, because after that journey, I gained some ideas about working machines, science development in the past and some interesting science experiment. Actually I think that it is amazing that science is explaining many things such as effects of electricity, gravity, results of pressure so on and in this big tent all of these concepts were presented us with the slogan of "What is going on" and " Try this". That is why; first of all we tried to understand what was going on there and we tried to accomplish experiments in order to see what is going on.

At the end of the visiting museum, we turned back the our faculty to attend the lab session. This week we discuss the machines and magnetism with my friends Aysun, Gamze and Itır. They actualized many experiments in order to teach these concepts. I think all of them constructed good job so I want to congratulate them. Moreover extra activity part includes four different concept's experiment which were done by Kübra and Rukiye. They tried to teach power of air, importance of our skeleton, making a magnifying glass and density of different liquids. According to me, all activities were beneficial and have the features to draw children's attention. For this reason, I thank to my friends for this efficient work.