Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of LA County

Natural History Museum of LA County

Plan a visit to Natural History Museum of LA County to learn about dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Hall.

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Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits

Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits

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Skulls from wolves 

See paleontologist work on excavating fossils from a tar pit.

Plan your trip to the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits

5801 Wilshire Blvd.Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 857-6300

A Few Science iPad Apps

Click on the title of the app to go to the iTunes website.
Some of these apps can also be used on Google play tablets.

• Life Cycle for Kids Lite App that teaches variety of life cycles to little ones while also developing their eye-hand coordination, and hopefully develop an interest in eating variety of healthy food!
• Planets 3D guide to the solar system for aspiring astronomers.
• GoSkyWatch Easily and quickly identify and locate stars, planets, constellations and more by simply pointing to the sky. Your personal telescope to the wonders in the night sky. Go outside and explore the night sky.
• Stars Stars is a light application that displays the 88 constellations in the sky. Just touch the screen and see the universe moving around you.
• Solar System A breakthrough electronic book about our Solar System, offering hours of interactive exploration and presenting a treasure trove of visual information.
• The Rock Cycle The Rock Cycle is an interactive story about the life of a rock. Weathered and aged, he tells his life story in this elegant poem. Each stanza is supplemented with interactive images, diagrams, and mini-games.
• Folds & Faults Folds and Faults HD provides an illustrated overview of two significant topics in geology: folds and faults. Understanding folds and faults helps to explain how mountains form, how layers of rock change shape over time, and the underlying.
• Building Serial Circuits Using 3D graphics and 2D electronic symbols, you will assemble different types of series circuits using wires, switches, batteries, and light bulbs. In order to better understand the difference between a series and a parallel circuit, build a circuit that illuminates two bulbs and observe what happens when one light bulb is removed.
• Building Parallel Circuits Using 3D graphics and 2D electronic symbols, you will build simple parallel circuits by using wires, batteries, switches, and light bulbs. By constructing their own closed circuit with two light bulbs, you will develop a deeper understanding of series and parallel circuits and discover that electricity follows the path of least resistance.
• Periodic Table of Element With this application, one can look up information on 118 different elements.
• Virtual Heart Virtual Heart lets you explore multiple real-time views of the human heart.
• 3D Brain Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research.
• Essential Skeleton 3 Essential Skeleton 3 is a fully functional, self-contained app covering the essential anatomy of the skeleton.
• The Human Body Explore a working model of the body. Every part is animated and interactive: the heart beats, guts gurgle, lungs breathe, the skin feels, and eyes see. Designed for kids to discover what we’re made of and how we work. 
• NASA Come explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and featured content with the NASA App for iOS.
• Astro Explore the night sky, the mars or our old moon with the help of Google Sky. Tap on the map to pan around quickly and zoom in to examine craters, spots or nebulas in more detail.
• The Water Cycle Enjoy our interactive showing the four stages of a Water Cycle in a simplified visual manner. 
• The Weather Channel Interactive The Weather Channel for iPad combines interactive and beautiful imagery with our WEATHER(TM) expertise.