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NORTH GREENBUSH, N.Y. (AP) - Old school: sitting under a planetarium dome gazing at a simulated Sagittarius. New school: watching smiling, singing, animated atoms zip around the dome as they journey through a falling snowflake and a stick of chewing gum.
A children's museum near Albany is debuting something new on its big-domed screen they call a "Molecularium" show. The 20-minute digital animation piece reinterprets the traditional planetarium experience for kids as likely to stick their nose in a Game Boy as a book. The subject isn't outer space this time, but atomic space. The movie tells the story of an oxygen atom, Oxy, and her nano pals exploring protons and electrons — a sort of science meets Shrek story for the early grades.
"This was as good as Saturday morning cartoons for them, or better," said Jayne Architzel, executive director of the Children's Museum of Science and Technology.
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