Mrs. Willoughby’s class is beginning a letter-writing campaign to local businesses to ask them to support BRIMS. In these letters, the students describe some hands-on experiences with science and some new things that they would like to see at our very own science museum. To see how you can help, click on Support Us in the menu above.
Each of these letters begins:
Barren River Imaginative Museum of Science (BRIMS) is closed because it needs to be updated. This museum is important to us, and we go there on field trips every year to learn about science. There are science museums in Nashville, Owensboro, and Louisville, so shouldn’t there be one in Bowling Green?
The next portion of each letter is written by a student:
Science is an interesting class. Once we ate some string cheese. I couldn’t believe we were eating bacteria! Another time we ate raw mushroom. It tasted like bleach, but it was fungus.
If I could create a science museum activity it would be a computer that you could select chemicals to use virtually and then see the reaction. This would teach kids what the reaction would be, but they couldn’t get hurt if the reaction was dangerous. Some of the chemicals on the computer would be white phosphorate, liquid nitrogen, and carbon. I say this becuse I want to know what would happen if you fused white phosphorate with liquid nitrogen.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? To keep our city informed, we need to update our museum. Your donation could sponsor an exhibit on how solar panels work or a planetarium.
by Logan
I absolutely loved science last year because we put milk, ice, salt, and vanilla in a bag, then put the bag in a coffee bucket. We had to roll it back and forth on a towel until I felt my arm was numb. In that experiment, we learned how to change a liquid into a solid.
If I could build a science museum, I would want it to have an Imax Theater that showed movies about the dinosaurs, how they lived and how long ago they lived!
My favorite science museum activity is the piano you play with your feet. I like this because you get to hear the sound waves bouncing everywhere. Also when you step on the keys, it turns red. My friend actually managed to play a song. Plus it is really fun for kids to learn and have fun. Ever since that activity, I’ve liked instruments. As you see, I think it is cool for kids to learn about science. I also think you will enjoy your time if you went to a museum to learn and have fun at the same time.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? What we know about science changes every day. To keep our city, and even our state informed, our museum needs to be updated. Your donation could sponsor your company’s name on a project in the museum or on a stone outside. You could also show your company’s name at the bottom of a Flag Pole. We need to update our museum with better technology like a computer room.
by Ben
I love science because of experiments like making a coin float by freezing a bottle. When you put the coin on the mouth of the bottle, the air inside pushes the coin up, so it looks like it’s floating. Using science to do magical things is interesting. I am also interested in learning more about the science of how motion detectors or heartbeat sensors work. When I played a game, the characters in the game used them to find and locate enemies.
If I could create a science museum activity display, it would be how to make rock candy by chemical reactions. First you get chemicals. Next you mix the right ones to make certain flavors. I love rock candy! You will also learn what not to mix for chemicals and what to mix for certain reactions.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? Your donation could sponsor activities for digging and learning about gems and fossils. It would be very interesting for people, including me, to know more about what’s underground.
by Artisan
Last year in Mrs. Gaddies’ science class we made homemade ice cream. We used ice, salt, vanilla, and milk. We put the ingredients in a plastic bag, then into a can with a lid and had to shake it up until it became thick and turned into ice cream. I was amazed at how good it tasted. It was a scientific learning experience, because I learned how to change a liquid into a solid.
If I could build my own activity in a science museum, it would be one that you could step into a portal and step away from your body. There would be no gravity, so you would learn about space. Your real body will step out of the portal and hide, so when you are done learning about space, you fly back down to the portal, step out of the portal, and go try to find yourself. Once you have found yourself, you step back into yourself and life goes back to normal.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? What we know about science changes every day, so we need to keep our city, and even our state informed. Your donation could sponsor better technology for kids and even adults to learn more about science. Real scientists create new investigations every day, so it’s important we learn about science every day.
by Anne
Science is an exciting subject. Every day we learn something new. One day, my brother and I did a science experiment. First we put a noodle in a bowl. Next we put water and green food coloring in the bowl. Then we put it in the microwave for a few minutes. When we took the bowl out of the microwave, the noodle was green. The food coloring had changed the color of the noodle. I learned that heated water will color food quickly.
My favorite science museum activity was a giant slide made out of painted dough rollers and a black hard rubber mat. First you go up a set of stairs. Second you wait for the first person to go down. Last you go down the slide and put your hands on the rollers on the walls (if you do not do well in small areas do not ride). Since I like going at top speeds, this is a great activity.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? Your donation will sponsor living animals, because it will help people learn how they sleep, and what they feel like, sound like, and do. It will also give an interactive activity and give people a chance to learn new, old, regular, or strange facts about animals.
by Jackson
Science is an exciting subject because of all of the new information we learn through experiments. Last year, in 3rd grade science, we put water in a jar and oil onto the water. We put blue colored ice cubes into the water. We wanted to know if the oil and the water would mix. It never did. Instead, the oil started to trade positions with the water because the oil was more dense than water.
Although I’ve been to the Chattanooga museum, The Magic House, two other museums in Saint Louis, a Nashville museum, BRIMS, and a few others, I can only remember the bear in the mirror and the gravity wheel at BRIMS. I learned a lot from those exhibits.
My favorite activity, the Gravity Spin, was based on force, motion, and friction. You sit on a spinning wheel. I noticed I seemed to build up speed when I held my arms close, but slowed down when I spread out my arms. When the surface area increased, my body slowed down, due to the laws of motion.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? What we know about science changes every day. To keep our city and even our state informed we need to update our museum. Your donation could sponsor more exhibits and activities. People and students need this knowledge in their minds and brains to power up their science sections in learning. BRIMS was all about science. They need to add animal (living/non-living) exhibits. About the nearest animal exhibit is the Bass Pro Shop down in Nashville. Now that is an hour away! I’m thinking we can get some animals in Bowling Green. I hope you can do at least ONE thing from this letter.
by Elijah
One day at school we made an ecosystem in a 2 liter bottle. Then I watered it, and it grew bigger, but the grass was brown. It is by my window so some sunlight can get in. I watered it again and it grew really big, so I had to open it to let the rest grow out. When I showed other people, they said,”How did you make it?” I told them how to make it, so they could do it at home.
My favorite science activity was Dinosaur World, because we got to dig for fossils. Wouldn’t it be fun to have that exhibit at BRIMS? It could be called, “How to dig for fossils.” First you would get a shovel and then a plate to shake the sand off. Last you get to find the bones and fossils. Finally you put them back in the sand and cover them up.
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? What we know about science changes every day. Your donation could sponsor better technology to research answers in the technology room. We could look up the weather or research plants and animals. Technology gives us pictures, videos, and facts about what we want to know.
by Madison
Science is fun because we do lots of things like seed planting, making helicopters, and making polar bear gloves! I liked the gloves the most, because it was completley warm in the ice with the glove filled iwth shortening! Science is fun with lots of experiments like volcano eruptions, or even molding bread! The mold was the decomposer. I also have learned that seahorses have a pouch just like a kangaroo! I love science.
My favorite science museum activity (display) at BRIMS was the lie detector. If you were lying, your pulse would go up! If you were asked “Do you have a girlfriend?” and you did, but you said no, your pulse would go up. I was glad he didn’t ask me!
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? A science museum activity (dispaly) I would create your own video game. It would be cool because you could see how to transfer the game to a disc and take it home to play.
We kow that science changes every day. To keep our city, even our state, informed, we need to update our museum. Your donation could sponsor a graveyard to teach us about the famous people that died and how they died. Also it could sponsor a gem dig that could teach us about different stones and forms of the stones.
by Skyler
What I like about science is that we can learn about our world and how it works. It’s like we are kid scientists! My favorite thing we did in science was when we ate cheese. I didn’t know at first, but when I found out cheese is a kind of bacteria, I thought it was cool! My second favorite thing was when we planted grass in our 2-liter. (Or, as we say, our ecosystem.) I thought it was going to grow tall! It did! It was really fun to watch it grow.
If I could create a science museum activity (display) it would be a “flying in gravity” activity because I’ve always thought that would be cool. First, you stand on the metal thing. Then, you start being lift up by gravity. It’s really fun as soon as you get used to it. You will really like it!
Would you be willing to donate $500 to support science in Bowling Green? What we know about science changes every day. Your donation could sponsor 2 new exhibits and activities like using potatoes to make a clock work and actually go in the potatoes and learn how the potatoes work.
by Hailey
