Moses Lake Museum & Art Center Program Assistant Savannah Betz shows the students at Science Saturday the sheet where they will predict which items will float and which will sink in oobleck. The kids then experimented and wrote down their results.
August 22, 2026
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Kids discover physics at museum program
MOSES LAKE — It was just another Saturday at the Moses Lake Museum & Art Center, with Program Assistant Savannah Betz explaining non-Newtonian physics and the scientific method to a group of grade-school children. “We know that something is solid because we can feel that it’s solid,” Betz said. “We know that something is liquid because it looks like liquid and feels like liquid. And you know that something is a gas because, well, you can’t see it, really. Sometimes you can smell a gas, and you kind of feel it as you wave your arms around. (Oobleck) is called a non-Newtonian fluid because it doesn’t conform to those states of matter.”