Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Seen-Art_.mp3 Author Jaimy Mann Air Date 7/19/2005 Seen Art? Transcript Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s Seen Art? is one of the newest examples of what The New York Museum of Modern Art publishes for children. Seen Art? is, in part, like so many museum publications for children (particularly books put out by New York’s […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Chocolate.mp3 Author John Cech (read by Lauren Brosnihan) Air Date 2/3/2005 Chocolate Transcript If you thought that chocolate grew on trees, you’d be right. But not in the form of candy bars or foil-wrapped bon bons. Earlier this fall I visited a traveling exhibition about chocolate from the Field Museum […]
That’s Savina Yannatou with the Greek lullaby, “Nanourisma,” from Ellipsis Arts’ beautiful Mediterranean Lullaby CD.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/A-Paleontologists-Childhood.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 10/2/2003 Becoming a Paleontologist Transcript It’s the National Month of the Dionsaur, and we asked Dr. Penny Higgins, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a specialist in the ancient fossils of horses, about what inspired her to choose this […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Boating-on-Fifth-Avenue.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 8/18/2003 Boating on Fifth Avenue Transcript If you’re on downtown Fifth Avenue in New York City some time, with or without children, you could slip into another world in the Forbes Museum, on the ground floor of the magazine’s corporate headquarters. It’s free and […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Kids-on-the-Move.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 1/16/2001 “Kids on the Move” Exhibition Transcript Today we’re celebrating the day the clamp-on roller skate was patented — a truly important invention in the history of childhood because it gave kids another exhilarating way to sail through their young lives. Such energy is […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Experience-Music-Project.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 11/3/2000 Experience Music Project Transcript This summer in Seattle, amid rock concerts and much fanfare, a new museum opened to the public. It’s called the Experience Music Project. Located in the shadow of the famous Space Needle, and housed in an amazing, wavy, metallic […]
Here’s Fiona Barnes on the Internet, with a trip you and your children can take this summer without leaving home.