News of the Arroyo
Title: | Green Week @ Kidspace Children's Museum |
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Date: | 2006-03-09 |
Summary: | March 9, 2006 - Kidspace Children's Museum will feature a series of events during Green Week, March 13th through March 19th including a tour of the Arryo Seco Watershed led by Jeff Chapman of the Arroyo Seco Foundation. |
Author: | Sergio Martinez, Socal.com Editor |
Publication: | Socal.com |
Content: | A kid aware and appreciative of his surroundings can become an important asset in the fight to preserve our environment. Bring yours to an important exhibit at the Kidspace Children’s Museum for their innovative Green Week, taking place from March 13th through the 19th. How is your kid connected to his environment? It’d be a great idea that he dissipates the wrong impression that his livelihood simply materializes in the house refrigerator. In this exhibit –experiential, interactive and fun-, many different activities are geared to allow your child to explore how is he or she connected to their environment, its natural systems and the world at large. Environmental awareness for children should rank up there with the arts and education in general as a top priority for our future generation. It is in this generation that we set the standards that they’ll inherit and trust me, we have lots of answering to do when it comes time for them to take over this spoiled world of ours. At their tender age, early impressions about nature can have long-lasting effects on their psyches and sensibilities. Show your kids the immense responsibility we all share as inhabitants of this uniquely beautiful biosphere. Teach them that each of their actions impacts the planet and their surroundings. It’s no good to pierce holes into one’s own lifeboat. Being totally in tune with the season, the creative minds at the Kidspace Children’s Museum have devised the ‘Eco-lympics’ relay games meant to explore important environmental topics such as recycling, alternative energy, diet and the ecology. Also new, a novel program on photosynthesis entitled: “Why Plants Are Green”. This particular event takes place in the outdoor Stone Hollow Amphitheater daily through the week. Children will have the opportunity to fabricate biodegradable paper that can also be grown in a plant bed at home, and to make a healthy \"Green\"-ola snack in the Kidspace Children\'s Museum own gardens. If your kid is the wandering type, one of the week’s highlights includes a day of ecologically-related film screenings, (on Wednesday, March 15) a tour through the Arroyo Seco Watershed (on Saturday, March 18 @ 1:30pm) and finally, a Nature of Wildworks interactive presentation pertaining native Southern California animals (Sunday, March 19 @ 1pm). The Arroyo Seco tour will be led by Jeff Chapman of the Arroyo Seco Foundation who stated: \"Getting out into nature is a great way to learn about it, and the Arroyo Seco Foundation is excited about this opportunity to work with Kidspace on March 18 as we explore the beautiful Arroyo, a natural, easy-to-access environment for urban families to enjoy, \" More can be learned about the Foundation, dedicated to the promotion and preservation of the Arroyo Seco, at www.arroyoseco.org Kidspace Children\'s Museum is open daily from 9:30a.m. - 5p.m. Tickets are $8 for children and adults (infants under 1 and Members are free). Kidspace is located at 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., in Brookside Park, Pasadena, Calif., just opposite the Rose Bowl. Free parking is available in Rose Bowl Parking Lot I. Kidspace Children\'s Museum is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that exists to enrich the lives of children. Kidspace is an interactive learning environment that is fun for children, families, educators, and caregivers. For sign up information, and for our calendar of events, please visit our Web site: www.kidspacemuseum.org |
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