Tellus Science Museum

On Saturday, November 5th we went to the Tellus Science Museum.  It is in Cartersville about 40 minutes away.  This museum is only a couple years old and I hear commercials on the radio all the time about it.  It isn't a very big museum.  The museum itself has a rock and mineral area, a fossil area, science in motion area (cars, bikes, trains, planes etc.), and a what they call my big backyard gallery (kids interactive area with a backyard theme).  Outside they have an observation area, a small self sufficient solar house, and they also have a planetarium in another building that shows different shows throughout the day.  We didn't do this on this day but will on another.  The kids favorite by far had to be the area where they could pan for their very own minerals, which they got to keep, and next to that they had a dig for fossils area where you got to keep one of the fossils (or sharks tooth) you dug up.  The kids spent the most time in this area and the backyard interactive area.

Payton, Kennedy, Talmage, and Hayden panning for minerals

Brenton looking at his minerals

Hayden with a mineral

Talmage going in for more minerals

Payton searching for minerals

Kennedy

Connor in the backyard interactive area

Connor

 When we were finished with the museum, we went to a nearby park and ate a lunch we had packed and brought from home.  It was a nice sunny day, but windy very windy.  Half the kids ate in the car while the other half was eating in the sun.  After we ate, we walked over to the pond area to watch the ducks for a while.  These were some crazy ducks.  We also spotted some giant cat fish swimming in the water.  I wasn't able to get a clear shot of the catfish under the water.

duck splashing in the water

Some of the many ducks in this pond

More wing flapping from the ducks

We did buy a year pass to this museum so we will definitely be back a few more time before it expires.