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An overview of The Leonardo on Wheels—Science program with an exhibit preview
The Leonardo on Wheels—Science is operated by the Utah Science Center. Like each partner in The Leonardo, the Science Center and its outreach program use Leonardo da Vinci as an icon and inspiration.
Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci left a legacy of innovation that spanned science, technology, art, and culture in his search for understanding and creativity. He brought observations and ideas together in his notebooks. He demonstrated that true innovation requires thinking beyond boundaries and barriers - that science facilitates art and that artistic creativity facilitates science.
Our goal for The Leonardo on Wheels—Science is to provide opportunities for students, teachers, and parents to be inspired and empowered to see beyond the ordinary and to discover more fully the world that surrounds them.
What is it that changes our minds? What inspires us to think and act in new ways? What transforms our view of the world and our relationships with each other? The Leonardo on Wheels—Science and its parent, the Utah Science Center, are built on the belief that learning transforms - that knowledge is a catalyst to understanding, and that creativity sparks vision and achievement.
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What do your organs look like? Navigate your way through human anatomy (internal and external) with a computer dissection of a real cadaver. more »
Keeping your balance is not a simple process. Your ability to keep your balance involves several of your body’s sensors and feedback systems: your eyes, your inner ear, your muscles, your sense of touch, and your brain. more »
What are the odds? Probability is a measurement of the likelihood of a given result. more »
What does it feel like to make electricity? Use the Generator Bike to convert the muscle energy of your legs into electrical energy. How much electricity can your leg muscles make? more »
These computers contains a map made from satellite images of your county. Can find your house? Your school? more »
Using the lenses and mirrors on this exhibit, you can bend light! The light can be focused onto a single point, spread out widely over a large area, or reflected to different locations on the table. more »
Energy in all forms is transmitted in waves. Waves have certain characteristics and properties such as how often they occur (frequency) and how strong they are (amplitude). There are rules that direct how waves interact and move. Discover some of them by experimenting. more »
Something familiar can look very foreign when viewed under a microscope. You may notice that big things are made up of lots of smaller things. You may even see things you never saw before or knew existed. more »
Everyone is different. See how your height and weight compare to other students at your school. The bars on the graph create a distribution curve. more »
Rubbing dissimilar objects against each other can build up a static charge, like your shoes (rubber) on some shag carpet (wool). If the charge is great enough, it will get released (discharged) in a spark. more»
Mountain ranges and valleys of Utah create daily breezes and interact with large air masses that travel from the Pacific Ocean and Canada. In certain situations, the terrain can channel air and create tornadoes and land spouts. more »
Three balls start at the same height. All three have the same destination but take different paths and have different weights. How do these variables (path and weight) influence the time it takes for the balls to get to the bottom? more »
Your voice is a complex blend of sounds. The graph allows you to visualize those sounds, your personal voice print. more»
Two large, plastic dishes are placed opposite each other. By speaking and listening at the center of the dishes, you and a friend can talk across the room without raising your voices. more »
You are surrounded every day by radiation that comes from many things in your world. You can measure and compare the radioactivity of the items in this exhibit using a Geiger counter. more »
All it takes to make electricity is a coil of wire and a magnet. That’s it. Moving a magnet through a coil causes electrons to flow through the wire. This principle is known as induction. more »
Using polarized light, you can see the forces and stresses that engineers have to figure out when they build bridges and other structures. more»