| Exhibits you can expect to see at the Maryland | | | | developments. |
| Science Center in Baltimore, Maryland include: | | | | BodyLink: Is a high tech environment accompanied by |
| The Kid's Room | | | | high touch experiences. You can test your nutrition I.Q., |
| At the Kid's Room exhibit you can expect to send | | | | or monitor your body's pulse and heart rate as you |
| boats down the river channel in water play, operate | | | | pedal a stationary bike. Watch video clips of the latest |
| the fish cam in the submarine, and dress-up like a turtle. | | | | news from the world of healthcare and health science. |
| The Kid's Room is a space dedicated to young | | | | Decode mysteries of DNA in the WetLab. |
| children and learning through play. | | | | BodyLink is a media center, discovery room, and |
| There are bright colors and kid-sized objects to handle | | | | newsroom. BodyLink brings you the latest and |
| everywhere in this special place for the Science | | | | greatest in Health Science and Healthcare. It is |
| Center's youngest visitors. The area accommodates | | | | equipped with Internet-ready computers, media players, |
| even children under two called "Room to Grow." | | | | and satellite television and srruound-sound audio |
| Infants and toddlers can crawl around squishy | | | | systems. |
| waterbeds and play with big soft blocks. | | | | The most important resource in BodyLink is the |
| Kids can build waterways and dams in the popular | | | | knowledgeable, trained staffs of health science |
| water play area, build Lego towers and structures out | | | | educators and community volunteers who serve as |
| of plastic pipe, or immerse themselves in an undersea | | | | exhibit facilitators. The staff is present to share their |
| world complete with deep sea coves, a fishing pier, | | | | excitement for Health science and to engage visitors in |
| and tugboat helm. | | | | interesting dialogue. |
| Newton's Alley | | | | SpaceLink: Is a high tech environment accompanied by |
| Newton's Alley is one of the Science Center's most | | | | high touch experiences. Construct a planetary rover. |
| popular exhibits. See sound. Touch a cloud. Play a | | | | Try on a flight suit. Track the orbits of satellites. |
| string less harp. Newton's alley is located on Level one | | | | SpaceLink is part media center, part discovery room, |
| and filled with highly interactive discovery areas that | | | | and part newsroom that brings you the latest and |
| reveal the phenomena of matter, energy, force and | | | | greatest in Space and Aerospace Science. A |
| motion. | | | | knowledgeable and trained staff of Space and |
| Our Place in Space | | | | Aerospace Science educators and community |
| Look at earth both as our home planet and its place in | | | | volunteers are available as guides and to engage |
| our solar system and beyond. Take a journey to all | | | | visitors in interesting dialogue to help ensure a fun, |
| our neighboring planets from Mercury to Pluto. Learn | | | | dynamic, and educational environment. |
| how stars are born and discover what happens when | | | | SpaceLink is the home to the Hubble Space |
| galaxies collide. Our Place in Space is also home to | | | | Telescope National Visitor Center. You can keep up |
| Science on a Sphere, which is a large visualization | | | | with the latest discoveries from this orbiting |
| system that uses computers and video projectors to | | | | observatory that is constantly peering into the darkest |
| display animated data onto the outside of a sphere. | | | | reaches of space to unlock the clues to the origins of |
| Your Body | | | | our universe. |
| Your Body exhibit explores a day in the life of the | | | | TerraLink: Is like all the other Link galleries at Maryland |
| body, with an emphasis on the sounds, smells, sights, | | | | Science Center in Baltimore, Maryland. It is a high tech |
| and sensations of everyday life. Stand inside the heart | | | | environment with high touch experiences. Fly over |
| and lungs and feel the rhythmic beats and breaths | | | | images of local cities and cities around the world. |
| from your head to your toes. | | | | Navigate from low-Earth-orbit to the top of your house |
| Groundbreaking video technology follows a cherry | | | | using real data. Observe and disrupt a forming tornado |
| tomato as it travels from the mouth to the stomach to | | | | with your hand. |
| illustrate the remarkable transformation from food to | | | | As with the other link galleries there is always trained, |
| fuel. | | | | knowledgeable staff from Earth science educator |
| This exhibit will help you understand what happens | | | | backgrounds and community volunteers to guide you |
| inside your body and you can connect your daily | | | | and talk with you about your experiences at the |
| activities to your health, while having fun doing it. | | | | TerraLink gallery. |
| Body, Space and Terralink | | | | For more contact information about the Maryland |
| The link galleries are designed to keep up with the | | | | Science Center please follow the link in the resource |
| rapid flow of news and events in the world of science. | | | | box at the end of this article. |
| They use state of the art technology and high tech | | | | Continued in Part 4 |
| multimedia to keep visitors connected to the latest | | | | This article is FREE to publish with the resource box. |