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Open Sesame Exploration Hall(科學開門)

Open Sesame Exploration Hall(科學開門)

Description

A Place for Your Exploration and Imagination
We provide an alternative learning environment for students in a comfortable and stress-free setting. The exhibition hall primarily features hands-on, interactive displays designed to help visitors understand scientific concepts through engagement. We aim to guide audiences in exploring science, experiencing science, appreciating the beauty of science and enjoying the pleasure of in-depth investigation, thereby enhancing public scientific literacy.

The exhibition offers you the opportunity and space to explore step by step, following the science inquiry process: POEC-2C

Predict>>Observe/Operate>>Explain>>Compare>>Contest>>Create

The exhibition areas are divided into seven major sections based on the topics found in academic proficiency tests, with the theme: “Science Gateway: where Exploration Begins.”
  1. The Vault Door: Application of simple machines, levers, and gear sets. Follow the instructions on the door to turn in the direction and numerical order to the set point to open.
  2. Roller Coaster Balls: Observe the relationship between kinetic and potential energy in the balls’ free-falling motion.
  3. Catapult Track: Uses a basketball game to observe and predict the direction and landing point of the catapulted ball.
  4. Electric Maze: Navigate through the maze designed with the basic components of an electrical circuit to train stability of hands.
  5. Hand Battery: Explores the principles of a zinc-copper battery - can the hand generate electricity?
  6.  Medical Online-The Art of Invisibility: An optical illusion using repeating patterns and mirror reflections - the lower body disappears.”

The exhibition is suitable for all ages, especially good for students and teachers of grades 1 to 9.

The exhibition hall hosts scientific presentations during winter and summer vacations. There are activities during the school year from time to time. Each presentation provides opportunities for visitors to interact, allowing all participants to challenge the record keeper.
 

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Open Sesame Exploration Hall(科學開門)

Focus

  • Luban Door
    Luban Door
    Discover the ingenious wisdom of ancient craftsmen through the “Luban Door." Entering this door feels like stepping into the world of “Open Sesame” exploration, experiencing the joy of science.
  • Face Recognition Door
    Face Recognition Door
    Engage your mind in identity recognition at the “Face Recognition Door,” helping scientists return to their laboratories. And if an “Anywhere Door” truly existed in the future, where would you want to go?
  • Pin Art Board
    Pin Art Board
    The densely packed blunt pins on the board, each passing through holes and movable back and forth, allow you to gently press a three-dimensional object against the pin art board. The displaced blunt pins, each moving to varying depths due to pressure, create beautiful curves resembling the object’s mold. Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/GF-WaLjfL1M
  • Ballistic
    Ballistic
    Experiment with the force, elevation angle(altitude angle), and azimuth angle of the projectile launch to successfully shoot in to the basket. Generally, an object is thrown obliquely upward or horizontally with a certain initial velocity at an angle to the ground. The motion of the object after being thrown, subject only to gravity (ignoring air resistance) is called projectile motion. Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/jFH4qE7BQK8 https://reurl.cc/G5e0bG
  • On-site Science Activity- Double Ring Glider
    On-site Science Activity- Double Ring Glider
    Interactive hands-on activities and science demonstrations are held at this exhibition hall periodically. They are available to visitors or groups with reservations. Link: https://youtu.be/0x4FLitBC-0

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