{"id":785380,"date":"2012-01-20T03:01:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T03:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/?p=785380"},"modified":"2012-01-20T04:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T04:08:31","slug":"discovery-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2012\/01\/20\/discovery-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a small museum in Sacramento that I took the boys to a few days ago, called the Discovery Museum Science and Space Center.<\/a><\/p>\n

The docent gave the boys a worksheet with 20 questions on it relating to the exhibits. \u00a0After filling it out, they received a polished rock of their choice.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned before, it is a small museum, but full of information. \u00a0We had to take a break part way through to stretch our legs outside.<\/p>\n

The first room we went to had a variety of frogs, insects, turtles, some rabbits, lizards, a screech owl, and a porcupine…<\/p>\n

Counting all the walking sticks…
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Testing their sense of smell. \u00a0They had to guess scents that come from nature…cedar, pine, vanilla, cinnamon, etc…
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I am always in awe over how small a hummingbirds nest is. \u00a0Half a golf ball, maybe?<\/p>\n

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Trying on some wooden shoes…
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The rest of the exhibits were in one long room with a little side room that was open and attached. \u00a0The focus was on dinosaurs, rocks, fossils, and crystals.
\nThis picture is actually my favorite for this reason…at home, I have been teaching the boys about rocks. \u00a0I learned the the museum had a new exhibit on rocks and that’s why I decided to take them. \u00a0I did not tell them that rocks would be there and wanted to see if they would make the connection or not.
\nWe were all doing an art activity on dinosaurs, when ‘A’ decided to venture into the side room. \u00a0I \u00a0sat back and did not say anything, just observed. \u00a0‘A’ started looking at the rocks, then looked at the sign above. \u00a0He looked back down at the rocks, then made this huge intake of breath…’OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! \u00a0Mom! \u00a0IGNEOUS ROCKS! \u00a0They have igneous rocks, mom! \u00a0MOM! \u00a0THEY HAVE OBSIDIAN! \u00a0‘R’ has always wanted to touch obsidian! \u00a0Come here, RyRy!!” \u00a0(I hope I was able to adequately display his level of excitement and enthusiasm…)
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‘R’, hugging the sulfur\/sulphur rock…
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Looking at salt, sugar, sand, rocks, their hands, under a microscope…
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Posing next to the metamorphic rocks. \u00a0The boys had to take each rock and match them to the picture.
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Taking a break outside …
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This was a fun exhibit. \u00a0They had a space set aside that talked about two people, a man and a woman. \u00a0The man was Roy Chapman Andrews. \u00a0He was the real life inspiration for the character, “Indiana Jones”, even down to his fear of snakes. \u00a0He also served as a spy during WW1. \u00a0Here the boys are hamming it up with costumes they had set up…
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The woman was Mary Anning, known as the “Princess of Paleontology’. \u00a0She and her family hunted fossils near their home. \u00a0She discovered a famous fossil when she was twelve year old and spent the rest of her life as a paleontologist.<\/p>\n

This was on crystals. \u00a0There was a glass case behind ‘R’ that was full of uncut stones and then what they looked like as a gem or piece of jewelry. \u00a0It was beautiful.<\/p>\n

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We have a small museum in Sacramento that I took the boys to a few days ago, called the Discovery Museum Science and Space Center. The docent gave the boys a worksheet with 20 questions on it relating to the exhibits. \u00a0After filling it out, they received a polished rock of their choice. As I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785380","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\/785380","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=785380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785408,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785380\/revisions\/785408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}