Press ReleaseBilingual Exhibit Helps Children Learn how Choices Impact their Health at The Wildlife ExperienceContact: Keith Carlson - 720.488.3331DENVER - May 15, 2007 - Riff and Rosie, two childlike squirrels, help visitors discover, investigate and solve environmental health problems in the interactive world of My Home Planet Earth at The Wildlife Experience from June 9 through October 21. This bilingual English and Spanish, hands-on exhibit is designed to help children learn how the choices they make regarding food, water and air affect their health. My Home Planet Earth is a nationally-touring exhibit and project of the Children’s Museum and Baylor College of Medicine. Along with Riff and Rosie, their friend Castor Slaptail (a beaver and scientist) helps visitors conduct experiments and solve mysteries in the town of Brightwater Corners while visiting several interactive areas including Rosie’s Treehouse, Marigold Marsh and Mr. Slaptail’s House. In Rosie’s Treehouse, kids can view images of dust mites with a video microscope to learn more about common allergens and where to look for common indoor pollutants that might be lurking in their own homes by using special black light technology to detect hidden allergens. There, kids can play the Allergies: True or False game to help Rosie learn more about what makes her sneeze, or they can navigate dust particles through a giant nasal passage in The Big Achoo. In Marigold Marsh, kids can fish for clues from a dock or a fishing boat and find out why the marsh is so polluted and conduct mucky water experiments on samples taken from the marsh. They can race to filter out water pollutants before they reach Riff and Rosie’s swimming hole in Clean it Up! and even assemble a 3-D Water Cycle Puzzle. At Mr. Slaptail’s House, kids can check out his Gross Me Out food experiments to learn about food safety while inspecting a real mold colony and watching a time lapse video of how food decays – all to see exactly what happens to food when you leave it in the refrigerator too long! They can “talk” with real scientists who are trying to help Mr. Slaptail solve the town’s environmental health challenges and play a round of Race to the Peak to learn about making healthy food choices or create inventions out of recycled materials at the Inventor’s Bench. Visitors will also have the opportunity to meet Riff and Rosie as they make their appearances often throughout the run of the exhibit. # # #
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