I ragazzi dell' Institute of Monterusciello Diaz were the youngest participants in the routes of Scientific Futuro Remoto 2008. Professor of Middle School has chosen for their routes at the Museum of Natural Sciences of Naples center right in the interest of pupils in third class. A strong commitment of the boys we found during the visit of the Mineralogical Museum and Zoo, was among those questions, those who took notes and taking photographs, everyone had their task and showed his interest.
Here are the reports prepared by three classes for "Scientist for a Day" City of Science.
Institute: SMS "Armando Diaz" - Monterusciello - Pozzuoli
Class: III C - branch office
Scientific Itinerary: Museum of Natural Science Center
REPORT Monday, November 24, 2008 we went to tour the Museum of Natural Science Centre, at ' University of Naples "Federico II", together with all the other third of our school and the teachers who accompanied us (we were with the teacher. Literature and the prof. of Sciences). We arrived by bus to Piazza del Gesù Nuovo and then we continued on foot until Via Mezzocannone, where are the museums. Before making the trip, the Professor. Science has given us tasks to play in taking pictures, take notes and ask a few questions, which we made in class with the help of two young science journalists of the "Science City" of Naples, who helped us prepare for this activity. Unfortunately, we visited only two of the four museums: the Royal Mineralogical Museum and the Zoological Museum of Anthropology and Palaeontology to it was not possible due to time constraints. With us there were two researchers who have guided us in the path, one for the Mineralogical Museum and one for which the Zoo before the exhibits show, told us a bit 'the history of these museums.
The Zoological Museum was founded in 1813 by the will of Joachim Murat, and had to host the first-floor rooms of the College Major of the Jesuits. In 1860 the direction was taken by Achille Costa, who was responsible for the formation of the Entomological Collection, which includes more than 30,000 specimens of insects and exotic Italian. Unfortunately, during the Second World War, the museum was badly damaged and only between 1948 and 1970 was restored. The Royal Mineralogical Museum was established in 1801 at the behest of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon and Maria Carolina. The Museum is located in the Library of the Jesuit Collegio Massimo. In the nineteenth century, under the direction of Arcangelo Scacchi, mineralogical research in Naples experienced a season full of scientific results. In the Museum of Mineralogy we observed many minerals categorized according to their chemical composition. The teacher who guided us during the visit told us that minerals are inorganic solids, the only exception, however, is the mercury that is liquid, while the rocks are aggregates of minerals. Then we began to observe the various minerals and the first that we were shown was sulfur, formed by large yellow crystals. Then we saw the hyaline quartz (ie transparent) and we were told that quartz, however, assume if other colorful names, such as whether it is red is called amethyst, citrine yellow if it is. Continuing we were shown a mineral called hematite, which yields the iron and then the corundum, blue sapphire is that if and when it assumes a red color is ruby.
Our attention was also drawn to a "rose" and we were told that this mineral is in fact called desert rose, which is nothing more than calcium sulfate (gypsum) that takes on the reddish color in the composition because it fit, of course, the grains of sand. We were shown pieces of wood which were included in the grains of minerals. After observing many other minerals, we put our questions to the guide, such as what is obsidian, is we were told that un vetro vulcanico che deriva dal rapido raffreddamento della lava e che ha una struttura non definita, poi abbiamo chiesto come si riconosce l’età delle rocce, e ci è stato risposto che per conoscerla si fa una sorta di rapporto tra elementi chimici radioattivi, infine abbiamo chiesto di conoscere quali sono gli ultimi studi che si stanno effettuando sulle rocce del museo e la professoressa ci ha portati nell’aula dove c’erano tutti i minerali vulcanici vesuviani, dicendoci appunto che si stavano effettuando degli studi su questi minerali.
Nel Museo Zoologico siamo stati accolti da un’altra professoressa che ci ha illustrato i vari passaggi dell’evoluzione degli animali; abbiamo apprezzato molto gli scheletri di metal lined with real fur of their animals, who were exposed to natural lifelike positions. The teacher showed us also that the collection of shells and butterflies and told us that if we wanted to know the scientific names and the preciousness of our collector's pieces, would help us to classify them.
This tour was very interesting and instructive especially because we learned a few things we ignored completely, some of us were really impressed by the wealth of findings, present in both museums and in general we are very pleased to have participated the laboratory "Scientist for a Day" and have had the opportunity di visitare gratuitamente questi musei, infatti precedentemente ritenevamo l’argomento un po’ noioso, mentre ora abbiamo scoperto che interessarsi di minerali è davvero una passione. Purtroppo molti di noi si sono sentiti poco bene dopo la gita forse per via del pullman o dei musei nei quali mancava l’aria. Speriamo al più presto di poter fare un’altra visita guidata al Centro Musei di Scienze Naturali, ma stavolta al Museo Paleontologico e al Museo Antropologico.
Class: III C - branch office
Scientific Itinerary: Museum of Natural Science Center
REPORT Monday, November 24, 2008 we went to tour the Museum of Natural Science Centre, at ' University of Naples "Federico II", together with all the other third of our school and the teachers who accompanied us (we were with the teacher. Literature and the prof. of Sciences). We arrived by bus to Piazza del Gesù Nuovo and then we continued on foot until Via Mezzocannone, where are the museums. Before making the trip, the Professor. Science has given us tasks to play in taking pictures, take notes and ask a few questions, which we made in class with the help of two young science journalists of the "Science City" of Naples, who helped us prepare for this activity. Unfortunately, we visited only two of the four museums: the Royal Mineralogical Museum and the Zoological Museum of Anthropology and Palaeontology to it was not possible due to time constraints. With us there were two researchers who have guided us in the path, one for the Mineralogical Museum and one for which the Zoo before the exhibits show, told us a bit 'the history of these museums.
The Zoological Museum was founded in 1813 by the will of Joachim Murat, and had to host the first-floor rooms of the College Major of the Jesuits. In 1860 the direction was taken by Achille Costa, who was responsible for the formation of the Entomological Collection, which includes more than 30,000 specimens of insects and exotic Italian. Unfortunately, during the Second World War, the museum was badly damaged and only between 1948 and 1970 was restored. The Royal Mineralogical Museum was established in 1801 at the behest of Ferdinand IV of Bourbon and Maria Carolina. The Museum is located in the Library of the Jesuit Collegio Massimo. In the nineteenth century, under the direction of Arcangelo Scacchi, mineralogical research in Naples experienced a season full of scientific results. In the Museum of Mineralogy we observed many minerals categorized according to their chemical composition. The teacher who guided us during the visit told us that minerals are inorganic solids, the only exception, however, is the mercury that is liquid, while the rocks are aggregates of minerals. Then we began to observe the various minerals and the first that we were shown was sulfur, formed by large yellow crystals. Then we saw the hyaline quartz (ie transparent) and we were told that quartz, however, assume if other colorful names, such as whether it is red is called amethyst, citrine yellow if it is. Continuing we were shown a mineral called hematite, which yields the iron and then the corundum, blue sapphire is that if and when it assumes a red color is ruby.
Our attention was also drawn to a "rose" and we were told that this mineral is in fact called desert rose, which is nothing more than calcium sulfate (gypsum) that takes on the reddish color in the composition because it fit, of course, the grains of sand. We were shown pieces of wood which were included in the grains of minerals. After observing many other minerals, we put our questions to the guide, such as what is obsidian, is we were told that un vetro vulcanico che deriva dal rapido raffreddamento della lava e che ha una struttura non definita, poi abbiamo chiesto come si riconosce l’età delle rocce, e ci è stato risposto che per conoscerla si fa una sorta di rapporto tra elementi chimici radioattivi, infine abbiamo chiesto di conoscere quali sono gli ultimi studi che si stanno effettuando sulle rocce del museo e la professoressa ci ha portati nell’aula dove c’erano tutti i minerali vulcanici vesuviani, dicendoci appunto che si stavano effettuando degli studi su questi minerali.
Nel Museo Zoologico siamo stati accolti da un’altra professoressa che ci ha illustrato i vari passaggi dell’evoluzione degli animali; abbiamo apprezzato molto gli scheletri di metal lined with real fur of their animals, who were exposed to natural lifelike positions. The teacher showed us also that the collection of shells and butterflies and told us that if we wanted to know the scientific names and the preciousness of our collector's pieces, would help us to classify them.
This tour was very interesting and instructive especially because we learned a few things we ignored completely, some of us were really impressed by the wealth of findings, present in both museums and in general we are very pleased to have participated the laboratory "Scientist for a Day" and have had the opportunity di visitare gratuitamente questi musei, infatti precedentemente ritenevamo l’argomento un po’ noioso, mentre ora abbiamo scoperto che interessarsi di minerali è davvero una passione. Purtroppo molti di noi si sono sentiti poco bene dopo la gita forse per via del pullman o dei musei nei quali mancava l’aria. Speriamo al più presto di poter fare un’altra visita guidata al Centro Musei di Scienze Naturali, ma stavolta al Museo Paleontologico e al Museo Antropologico.
