Visit to the Science Centre

 

 First, a hearty dim sum lunch to get us started for the day! We went to the Chinese Swimming Club, where many of Singapore's national swimmers train, to the TungLok Signatures restaurant. We ate a variety of small dishes, such as Chinese-style fried chicken wings, frog and duck rice porridge, and some familiar dumplings similar to what we can find in Boston's Dim Sum restaurants. Finished with a house special fruit juice served in a test tube!

Then, off to the Science Centre, which is Singapore's museum of science! To me, the Science Centre felt like a cross between Boston's Museum of Science and the Children's Museum. In the center of the Science Centre was their stage for the electricity show, just like at our Museum of Science! Although their generators and metal cage were MUCH smaller - it was like a miniature MOS stage. Around the museum, visitors engaged in hands-on activities around different science topics such as sound, engineering, and ecology. Outside the Science Centre was the "Kinetic Garden" with fountains and activities for kids to play in.

 

  

 For dinner, it was off to the East Coast Park on the water, where we ate at Jumbo Seafood. We met up with Karen Lam, who works for the Ministry of Education, her husband, Peter, and Ken Jin Tan, Head of Department for Student Development in his school and also a physics and math teacher. We learned more about how Singapore's education system works, and about different professional tracks that teachers work along in their career. A very intriguing way to support teacher professionalism and growth along the career span!

We ate the famous Singaporean chili crab, as well as pepper crab, fried prawns with cereal, and crisp baby squids. Delicious!