{"id":440512,"date":"2007-12-07T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2007\/12\/07\/field-trip-burke-museum\/"},"modified":"2011-10-08T03:54:14","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T03:54:14","slug":"field-trip-burke-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2007\/12\/07\/field-trip-burke-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Field Trip: Burke Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/burkemuseum\/\">Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture <\/a>had a special &#8216;Homeschool Day&#8217;,&nbsp;where homeschool families were invited to enjoy the exhibits and activities.&nbsp; They did not allow photos inside,(the photos are from the website),&nbsp;but the boys&nbsp;favorite things were&nbsp;looking at casts of dinosaurs and this mastadon:\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/burkemuseum\/images\/large\/1092069867.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Figuring out which minerals and rocks could be picked up with a magnet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Looking at bees legs, butterfly wings, horse hair, etc. in a microscope&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, the highlight was a part of a tour on the Giant Squid.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/burkemuseum\/images\/large\/1187991843.jpg\" \/>The kids listened to a speaker talk about the squid and re-created a model one across the 30 foot floor.&nbsp; They then watched a video that showed a real (dead) giant squid that was found in a sperm whale belly.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some shots of the kids outside.&nbsp; We went with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homeschoolblogger.com\/linny\/\">Linda\/Linny.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2220\/2092974263_c802fca222.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2006\/2093751160_457decd9a8.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture had a special &#8216;Homeschool Day&#8217;,&nbsp;where homeschool families were invited to enjoy the exhibits and activities.&nbsp; They did not allow photos inside,(the photos are from the website),&nbsp;but the boys&nbsp;favorite things were&nbsp;looking at casts of dinosaurs and this mastadon: Figuring out which minerals and rocks could be picked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784579,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440512\/revisions\/784579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}