From
conveyer belts and cranes to air chutes and grocery stores, young visitors,
infants through age six, will work, create, play, and learn as they
experience the wonders of the every day working world within this exhibition.
Throughout it, tips and strategies are offered on parent-child interaction
to encourage children's learning.
All the thematic areas within KID CITY focus on specific areas of learning:
Grocery Store
Children learn basic
math concepts. They can weigh, sort, match, compare, count and sell "fruit"
and "vegetables" of various shapes, colors and sizes.
Factory
Children can explore
the physics of movement and cause and effect. They can climb though
the four levels of the Factory Climbing Structure and begin working
by fitting various shaped blocks through corresponding holes.
Also included in
the exhibition are four Young Explorer Computers. Children can visit
five areas on the computers. For example, Millie's Math House allows
them to build a bug by clicking on pictures of ears, eyes, noses, etc.,
and then clicking on the number they want the bug to have.
Or, in Sammie's
Science House, children can select the weather for the day. Choose "cold"
by clicking on the thermometer for the temperature, or make it windy,
rainy or sunny. When completed, the weather elements are put together
into a little story so the child can see the day they created.
The exhibition also
features a Funhouse Mirror that distorts the viewer's legs and feet,
a Book Nook with a collection of young children's books and cozy benches
and rugs and the Magnetic Wall where children can spell their name or
create words with magnetic letters and numbers that "stick" to the wall.
Visitors can also make structures out of big foam colorful blocks.