FAMILY FIELD TRIP IT'S EDUCATION - BUT DON'T TELL THE KIDS.Byline: MEREDITH GRENIER >LA.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. Fall is the season to refocus and renew. As the days of fun in the sun fade, new adventures await. Discovering, learning and lots of "Aha!" moments are in store for families who take advantage of the programs, special events, workshops and festivals offered by area museums and other cultural centers. After all, who said learning should be limited to the classroom? Parents can take kids on outings every weekend and boost their knowledge, creativity and sense of wonder. Opportunities abound: From getting up close and personal with arachnids to panning for gold, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. is a fun and stimulating playground for kids this fall. Just don't forget the camera. Natural History Museum, Los Angeles >Where: 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles. >Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends and holidays. >Admission: $9, $6.50 children. >Information: (213) 763-3466 or www.nhm.org. >Don't miss: Enter a web of wonder and watch hundreds of spiders interact with each other, build webs and feed on their prey at the Spider Pavilion, open Sept. 23 through Nov. 4. Arachnids on view range from large golden silk spiders to banded garden spiders famous for their intricate webs and dramatic yellow and black markings. Learn intriguing facts and dispel myths and fears about these largely harmless creatures in this interactive exhibit. Timed tickets are available inside the museum with first purchase at 10 a.m. and final sale at 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $3, $2 seniors and students, $1 children 5-12. Kidspace Children's Museum Kidspace Children's Museum is located next to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Since the December 2004 opening of its new facility in Brookside Park, Pasadena, Kidspace Children’s Museum has provided local community children with an unparalleled space for >Where: 408 N. Arroyo Blvd., Pasadena. >Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Closed on major holidays and when UCLA's football team plays at the Rose Bowl. >Admission: $8, free for infants. >Information: (626) 449-9144 or www.kidspacemuseum.org. >Don't miss: The museum exists to stimulate the minds of children ages 2 to 9, with exhibits in the arts, sciences and humanities. Special events for fall include the Children's Health Children's Health Definition Children's health encompasses the physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being of children from infancy through adolescence. Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 29; and the 13th Annual Kidspace Pumpkin Festival from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 27 and 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Oct. 28. The festival takes place in Brookside Park in front of Kidspace. Admission is free; rides, games, crafts and activities require tickets. Skirball Cultural Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . >Where: 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles. >Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Closed Mondays and Jewish holidays, as well as Thanksgiving and Christmas. >Admission: $10; $7 seniors and students; $5 children 2-12; free for children under 2, and for everyone on Thursdays. >Information: (310) 440-4500 or www.skirball.org. >Don't miss: Watch for impromptu invitations to meet a puppet, listen to a story or work on an art project. Catch one of the live performances in the amphitheater throughout the day. The Noah's Ark Noah’s Ark preserves Noah’s family and animals from flood. [O.T.: Genesis 6:7–9] See : Refuge exhibit is a must-see for kids, taking them on an adventure inspired by the biblical flood story. In this floor-to-ceiling wooden ark, inside an 8,000-square-foot gallery, children can mingle with hundreds of fanciful animals crafted from recycled, everyday materials. They also can create a storm or help construct the ark. Noah's Ark tickets are $5- $10 (which includes admission to the museum) and typically sell out a week in advance. Timed entry is required. Call (800) 595-4849 or buy tickets online. Japanese American National Museum The Japanese American National Museum opened its doors in 1992. The museum is located in the Little Tokyo area near downtown Los Angeles, California. It is devoted to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. >Where: 369 E. First St., Los Angeles. >Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; closed Mondays and major holidays. >Admission: $8; $5 seniors; $4 students with ID and children 6-17; free for children 5 and under and for everyone from 5 to 8 p.m. and on the third Thursday of every month. >Information: (213) 625-0414 or www.janm.org. >Don't miss: A Free Family Saturday program, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov.10, will highlight "Flower Power at the Museum." Children ages 5-15 will learn how to make their own flowers out of assorted materials. Descanso Gardens Descanso Gardens is a 160-acre botanical garden and historical site located at 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA. Situated in a natural “bowl” in the San Rafael Hills, this calming, urban retreat is just 14 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. >Where: 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. >Hours: 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily; closed Christmas Day. >Admission: $7; $5 seniors and students; $2 children 5-12; free for children 5 and younger. >Information: (818) 949-4200 or www.descansogardens.org. >Don't miss: "PumpkinPalooza!" a fanciful pumpkin celebration Oct. 27 to 28 in the lush botanical garden botanical garden, public place in which plants are grown both for display and for scientific study. An arboretum is a botanical garden devoted chiefly to the growing of woody plants. , will include a costumed children's marching band Noun 1. marching band - a band that marches (as in a parade) and plays music at the same time band - instrumentalists not including string players , hay rides, a farm animal petting zoo, craft workshops, games and a ride on an enchanted en·chant tr.v. en·chant·ed, en·chant·ing, en·chants 1. To cast a spell over; bewitch. 2. To attract and delight; entrance. See Synonyms at charm. railroad ($2 per ride). Long Beach Aquarium >Where: 100 Aquarium Way, Long Beach. >Hours: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, except Christmas Day and during the weekend of the annual Grand Prix Grand Prix n. pl. Grand Prix Any of several competitive international road races for sports cars of specific engine size over an exacting, usually risky course. of Long Beach. >Admission: $20.95; $17.95 seniors; $11.95 children 3-11. >Information: (562) 590-3100 or www.aquariumofpacific.org. >Don't miss: "Moompetam," an American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. festival from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 22 and 23, will celebrate indigenous California Indian California Indian Any member of the various North American Indian peoples living in and around present-day California, U.S. Of the many California groups, most were composed of independent territorial and political units that were smaller than the average groupings of other maritime cultures through traditional song and dance, craft demonstrations, educational programs and storytelling. The festival will feature a plank canoe created by the Tongva of the Southern Channel Islands and coastal areas. (Moompetam means "of the ocean" in the Tongvan language.) California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State >Where: 700 State Drive, Los Angeles. >Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day New Year's Day, among ancient peoples the first day of the year frequently corresponded to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice. In the Middle Ages it was celebrated among Christians usually on Mar. 25. . >Admission: Free for exhibition galleries. There is a fee for special attractions: $2 for the High Wire Bike, $3.50 for the Ecology Cliff Wall, $4.50 for the Motion Simulator A motion simulator or motion platform is a mechanism that encapsulates riders and creates the effect/feelings of being in a moving object. One example would be a theme park ride which simulates flying by using a projection screen in front of the seats you ride in. ; or $7 for all three. >Information: (323) 724-3623 or www.californiasciencecenter.org >Don't miss: Kids can challenge the laws of gravity and experience a lesson in physics by riding a bicycle across a 1-inch cable 43 feet above the ground. If that's not scary enough, they can further test their courage in the exhibit "Goose Bumps goose bumps or goose pimples: see gooseflesh. ! The Science of Fear." Autry National Center's Museum of the American West >Where: 4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles. >Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. >Admission: $9; $5 seniors and students 13-18, and 18 and older with I.D.; $3 children 3-12; free for children under 3. >Information: (323) 667-2000 or www.autrynationalcenter.org. >Don't miss: Become a gold miner and see what life was like for thousands of fortune-seekers who came to California hoping to find gold. Some struck it rich; but many left empty-handed. Guests can pan for gold, just like the miners did, in the "Gold Rush" program from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits >Where: 5801 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. >Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. >Admission: $7; $4.50 seniors, children 13-17 and students with I.D.; $2 children 5-12; free for children under 5. >Information: (323) 934-7243 or www.tarpits.org. >Don't miss: A fossil treasure trove TREASURE TROVE. Found treasure. 2. This name is given to such money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion, which having been hidden or concealed in the earth or other private place, so long that its owner is unknown, has been discovered by accident. lies beneath gallons of oozing oozing exudation of fluid. pitch blackness in the heart of L.A. In June, the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits Fossil field in Hancock Park (formerly Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. It is the site of “pitch springs” oozing crude oil, formerly used by local Indians for waterproofing, and was explored by Gaspar de Portolá's expedition in opened Pit 91, where the excavation of Ice Age fossils takes place through Oct. 7. Visitors can watch as paleontologists and volunteers recover bones from saber-toothed cats and other beasts that died in the asphalt deposits 28,000 years ago. The Pit 91 viewing station is open, free, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. >Where: 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. >Hours: Noon to 8 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays; noon to 9p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; closed Wednesdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. >Admission: $9; $5 seniors and students with I.D.; free for children 17 and under to permanent galleries and nonticketed exhibits. >Information: (323) 857-6000 or www.lacma.org. >Don't miss: During "Family Sundays" programs, from 12:30 to 3:15p.m., visitors can create art, explore the museum, join a gallery tour or take in a performance -- all with an emphasis on fun and exposure to culture. On Sunday, Sept. 23 and 30, learn about paintings, sculptures, gold and silver objects and textiles created by Latin American cultures. Throughout October, explore American art through city and landscape scenes and create your own artwork. The programs are free with general admission. Meredith Grenier (310) 540-5511, Ext.494 meredith.grenier@ dailybreeze.com CAPTION(S): 14 photos Photo: (1 -- cover -- color) DARE TO DISCOVER Local museums have plenty to tempt inquisitive kids (2 -- 14 -- color) Venues all over L.A. offer activities to educate and entertain children. Clockwise from left, a garden spider awaits its prey in the Spider Pavilion at the Natural History Museum; children join in a construction project at LACMA; a volunteer demonstrates origami The code name for Microsoft's Ultra-Mobile PC. See Ultra-Mobile PC. at the Japanese American National Museum; a mother and son enjoy PumpkinPalooza! at Descanso Gardens; young artists get busy at LACMA; and a visitor makes an eight-legged friend at the Spider Pavilion. Photos courtesy Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging; Howard Pasamanick; Don Farber and Gary Leonard. |
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