Make a Virtual Volcano & See the Impact of Hurricane Sandy at the American Museum of Natural History's New Nature's Fury Installation
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With all the heated talk about climate change on the news, in school and at home, chances are your children have heard about this environmental crisis, but that doesn't mean they get what it is. While many families participated in NYC's recent People's Climate March, and Hurricane Sandy had a tremendous impact on the tri-state area, the concept of climate change and its connection to natural disasters may still be hard for kids to grasp.
That's why the American Museum of Natural History's brand-new exhibit, Nature's Fury: The Science of Natural Disasters, is so important. In addition to being fun and engaging (you can make your own virtual volcano!), it explains some very complicated phenomena in ways school-age kids can understand via high-tech interactive displays about volcanoes, earthquakes and other natural disasters. Of course these are some pretty scary subjects, so how did my two young children fare?