This Web site, created to complement the Einstein exhibit, looks at the life and contributions of this extraordinary scientist and humanitarian.
This fun Web site is part of OLogy, where kids can collect virtual trading cards and create projects with them. Here, they are introduced to space and time with six engaging and kid-friendly areas. Welcome to the Fourth Dimension, which looks at how time is needed to describe where you are in the fourth dimension. It's All Relative, an explanation of how time and space are different depending on your frame of reference. Mass Appeal, which uses the example of an elephant on a page of paper to explain how the Sun's mass causes space and time to bend. You Light Up My Life, how Arthur Eddington proved that Einstein's light-bending prediction was right. Everyday Einstein: Black Holes, an overview of these "bottomless dimples in space."Time Travel Kit, a look at how the faster you move in space, the slower you move in time.
This OLogy activity uses the traditional Japanese art of paper-folding to help kids understand dimensions. The activity begins with a brief introduction to both dimensions and origami. The kids are then given instructions, included as printable PDFs, for morphing 2D paper into 3D models (a simple box and a water bomb).The activity ends with an illustrated look at dimensions, from the zero dimensions of a point to the fourth dimension of time.
This online video gallery is from the museum's Seminars on Science, a series of distance-learning courses designed to help educators meet the new national science standards. Part of the Frontiers in Physical Science seminar, the gallery features two videos, available in broadband and modem formats and with a printable PDF transcript. What Is Motion?explains Galilean relativity and why it breaks down when you're trying to measure things traveling at or near the speed of light. What Is Time?explains that the only way for the speed of light to stay constant is for time "to give."
