Category: 2012

Despite some of the rain, our last week of camp was an exciting and fun one! Monday was all about butterflies. We took a tour of the Museum’s Butterfly Garden and recorded our observations in our journals. We also completed a scavenger hunt! Later, we did a hands-on activity to demonstrate the differences between butterflies…

On Monday, we spent a lot of time exploring the Museum’s Butterfly Garden. We made nature journals to use for the week, and we mapped the Butterfly Garden. The maps we created were collected for use by the people who maintain the garden and will help them with their work! We also created a scavenger…

As sad as we are that this is our last week of camp, we are also very excited about our upcoming activities and explorations during this second Science Sampler Adventure! You can use this blog to follow some of the camp happenings going on at the Museum and beyond. Please be sure to check the…

As sad as we are that this is our last week of camp, we are also very excited about our upcoming activities and explorations during this second Ecology Quest! You can use this blog to follow some of the camp happenings going on at the Museum and beyond. Please be sure to check the blog…

We have had a great seventh week of camp! This week is Science Sampler where we learned about different sciences.  Playing with oobleck. Monday was all about messy science. We made oobleck featured in Dr. Seuss’s Bartholomew and the Oobleck using cornstarch and water. Oobleck is a “Non-Newtonian” liquid which means it is a runny…

Our seventh week of camp was full of adventure and exploration! We did activities involving bugs, trees, sun and more! We began the week exploring the Museum of Natural History’s very own Butterfly Garden! We talked about plant diversity in the garden and then ventured off into the Diag to explore this theme further. We…

We are so excited for our seventh week of camp, and hope you are too! You can use this blog to follow some of the camp happenings going on at the Museum and beyond. Please be sure to check the blog again on Friday to see some pictures from the week! Here are some suggestions…

We are so excited for our seventh week of camp, and hope you are too! You can use this blog to follow some of the camp happenings going on at the Museum and beyond. Please be sure to check the blog again on Friday to see some pictures from the week! Here are some suggestions…

We have had a great week learning all about dinosaurs from dinosaur extremes to dinosaur adaptions.  We even talked about how the dinosaurs became fossils. Were pterosaurs dinosaurs? On Monday we talked about dinosaur extremes. We found the biggest, smallest, longest, smartest, and most ferocious (just to name a few) dinosaurs in the museum. We…

We have had tons of fun this week exploring various archaeological topics, from ancient games to interactions between humans and prehistoric animals! Looking at the stratigraphy of a site. On Monday, we did two activities to help us understand how Archaeologists date artifacts. We talked about stratigraphy and cross dating, two archaeological methods in which…