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Earth Day Celebration for All Ages at the New York Hall of Science
4-01-08
Queens, N.Y. – Celebrate Earth Day with a variety of interactive activities at the New York Hall of Science on April 19 and 20. People of all ages can give Mother Earth a big hug by increasing their knowledge of earth-friendly topics such as composting and by learning more about Earth’s continents and various habitats.
Earth Day Activity Tables
Saturday, April 19 & Sunday, April 20; 12 – 4 pm
The Compost with the Most
Learn all about the benefits of keeping your own composting bucket, and the wiggly creatures that lurk in soil who help to break down our organic scraps.Earth Day Collage
Create your own work of art or poem to add to our earth day celebration collage see what the earth means to you and other Hall visitors.
Planet Earth Presentation
Saturday, April 19 & Sunday, April 20
BBC's Planet Earth will be featuring products inspired by the epic award-winning production as well as screenings of Episode One of the critically acclaimed Series.
Planet Earth Activity Table
12 – 4 pm
Play the Planet Earth Interactive DVD Game from Imagination International as well as enjoy Planet Earth puzzles and workbooks. Designed to inform, entertain and educate, Planet Earth products echo the awe-inspiring visual beauty of the series, creating a greater sense of awareness and emotional connection with the planet. As far as possible, Planet Earth products use environmentally friendly materials and manufacturing processes.
Planet Earth “Pole to Pole” Screening
4 pm
“Pole to Pole” looks at our planet as a whole and considers the key factors that have shaped its natural history. The tilt of the earth’s orbit to the sun dictates all our lives, creating the seasons, which in turn trigger the greatest spectacles on our earth, the mass migration of animals. Planet Earth uses the latest technology and aerial photography to follow a million caribou as they trek across the Arctic wastes, pursued by wolves as they go. In the Kalahari Desert, an epic trek is undertaken by hundreds of elephants as they attempt to reach the Okavango Swamps. And on a smaller but no less spectacular scale, we share the most intimate and complete picture of polar bear life ever filmed. In the Arctic spring, a mother polar bear and her cubs emerge from their winter den. They have just two weeks to cross the frozen sea before it melts and they become stranded.
Quintet of the Americas
April 20, 11 am & noon
The world-renowned, New York-based woodwind quintet presents a half-hour interactive performance of instrument making, as well as playing music from around the world in honor of Earth Day.
For more information about the Hall’s Earth Day Celebration, please call 718.699.0005 ext. 381.
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Media Contact: Carol Nordin 718.699.0005 ext. 342