Kahaku Exploration Workshop at Home! INDEX
We have selected themes from learning programs previously developed and conducted at the National Museum of Nature and Science, and are reintroducing them as special "revival" editions that you can enjoy at home.
These include simple observation activities, crafts, animal coloring sheets, and quizzes.
Whether you are revisiting fond memories from a past visit or discovering them for the first time, we hope that everyone, from children to adults, will enjoy them.
Exploration Workshop: Let’s Try Experiments and Observations at Home
These activities are themed around using familiar, easily accessible materials from your daily life, making it easy and fun to try them at home!
Coloring Plus: Take a Closer Look at Shapes
We are sharing coloring sheets created in connection with past exhibitions. You can choose those suitable for your child's age. Of course, adults can also enjoy them.
*These coloring sheets are part of materials developed in 2007 with funding from the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Basic Research A). The project was titled “Development, Systematization, and Theoretical Construction of Educational Programs at
Science Museums Contributing to the Cultivation of Scientific Literacy ” (Project Number 19200052).
Living Things Quiz: Can You Become a Creature Expert?
This quiz is also related to our exhibitions. Some questions are a bit challenging. But when combined with “Experience at Home! Kahaku VR,” which lets you explore the National Museum of Nature and Science online, it becomes a fun activity for the whole
family.
*This quiz uses a worksheet originally created for the “Look Closely Until You See Everything（リンクを新しいタブで開きます）” specimen observation quiz, held in March 2007. The event was funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Young Scientists B) for the project “Practical
Research on Methodologies for Enhancing the Understanding of Youth in Museum Exhibitions ” (Project Number 16700547). We are now making this worksheet available again.
ComPaSS: Exploration Area for Families with Children
ComPaSS is an exhibition room designed mainly for children aged 4 to 6 and their parents. Incorporating elements of play, it aims to encourage communication between parents and children and to foster children’s ability to feel and think.
For more details, please see "ComPaSS: Exploration Area for Families with Children."
What is "Kahaku Exploration Workshop"?
At the Ueno District of the National Museum of Nature and Science, there was a participatory exhibition area called the "Exploration Area" located on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Global Gallery until fiscal year 2013. This area featured an "Inquiry Corner" where visitors could engage in observation and craft activities. Every opening day, the museum held the “Kahaku Exploration Workshop,” a hands-on program designed to foster familiarity with nature and science through experiences such as seeing, making, touching, and thinking. Targeted at elementary school students and above, the program was operated by museum staff and volunteers, offering specimen observations and science experiments with themes changing every two weeks.
