Category: 2014

We’re excited to learn about animals this week!  You can check this blog to follow camp events, both at the museum and beyond.  Please be sure to check again on Friday for some photos from the week!Here are some suggested questions to ask your camper this week:On Monday, we will be learning about habitats.Ask me about…

We’re excited to learn about ecology this week!  You can check this blog to follow camp events, both at the museum and beyond.  Please be sure to check again on Friday for some photos from the week!Here are some suggested questions for you to ask your camper this week:On Monday, we will learn about Ecosystems, Biomes…

First coins used by Lydians We started off our second week of Archaeology camp with learning about Ancient Civilizations. We talked about the Lydians who are thought to have developed the first coin system.  Campers got to make their own coins that represented something about them. Then we learned about the Mayans and their number…

The Orange Group on their “Walk through time.” We’ve had another fun and exciting week at Camp Explorations!  This week we learned all about Paleontology.  On Monday, we focused on geological time scale.  Campers visualized how much a billion is (about 250 pages filled with asterisks!), and made geological time scale spirals.  We also went…

We’re excited to learn about paleontology this week!  You can check this blog to follow camp events, both at the museum and beyond.  Please be sure to check again on Friday for some photos from the week!Here are some suggested questions for you to ask your camper this week:On Monday, we will be learning about the…

We’re excited to learn about archaeology this week!  You can check this blog to follow camp events, both at the museum and beyond.  Please be sure to check again on Friday for some photos from the week!Here are some suggested questions for you to ask your camper this week:On Monday, we will learn about Ancient Civilizations.Ask…

A beautiful Sauropod! This week at Camp Explorations we learned all about paleontology.  From the beginning of Earth’s history to dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, we’ve discovered many new things!  On Monday, we learned all about one of our favorite topics: dinosaurs!  Campers learned how to distinguish between a dinosaur and other animals, how large…

Checking out a real atlatl Monday camp started with some basics of archaeology!  We learned what archaeologists do and what they study.  We had a real archaeologist come in and give a presentation first thing.  She showed us lots of cool artifacts and told us about her job here at the museum.  Then, we started on some archaeological endeavors of our…

We are very excited about the upcoming week at camp!  Here are some questions you can ask your campers about after each day’s session. On Monday, we will be learning about dinosaurs. Ask me the 4 rules for being a dinosaur!Ask me how big dinosaurs were! On Tuesday, we will be learning about the time…

We’re excited to learn about archaeology this week!  You can check this blog to follow camp events, both at the museum and beyond.  Please be sure to check again on Friday for some photos from the week!Here are some suggested questions for you to ask your camper this week!On Monday, we will learn about what archaeology…