5:15am came too early this morning as many of our students experienced. Despite lack of sleep everyone got up, got ready, had breakfast and got on the bus on time. The first half of our day was spent at Magic Kingdom learning all about Properties of Motion and our afternoon – which was all free time – was spent at Hollywood Studios.
“Space Mountain”, “Big Thunder Mountain Rail Road” and “Splash Mountain” oh my. Roller coaster as an educational tool? Oh yes! Katie and Brittany– our Youth Education Series facilitators – were awesome and we had a great time practicing and experiencing the Scientific Method many ways as we learned about centripetal force, g-force, air time, lateral force, kinetic and potential energy, velocity, speed and acceleration. We are now experts on the Properties of Motion. Audio animatronics (specifically hydraulic and pneumonic movements) was our next vocabulary word and along with an interesting demonstration and a ride – “Buzz Lightyears’s Space Ranger Spin” – we became very familiar with how Disney animates all their very life like characters on all their sets and rides. To expand our practice further we decided to check out “Pirates of the Caribbean” and ‘The Haunted Mansion” as well.
Before leaving for our afternoon fun, we had lunch at the Columbia Harbour House.
After riding the monorail and the Disney ground transportation (a bus) we finally arrived at Hollywood Studios and the main attractions of the day – “Rock’n’ Roller Coaster” and “The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror”. Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Nicholas heard that some of our boys rode the Rock’n’ Roller Coaster six times or so. Wow! No lines there. Others enjoyed “Lights, Camera, Action”, Indiana Jones, “The Back Stage tour”, “Toy Story Mania”, shopping and food.
Once back at the hotel around 7:30pm, we had a quick recapping of the day, filled out our journaling cards and talked about tomorrow’s agenda. Looks like we get to sleep in a little bit – Yeah! We all need it. Most everyone decided to head down to the pool for a while before lights out at 10pm.
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