elementary
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by elementary on Jul 30, 2011 13:56:01 GMT -5
Hello all, I had the privilege of giving a short talk on rocks and fossils at my daughter's daycare. There were 14 students who attended. The talk was basic as the attention span of 4/5 year olds can be measured in milliseconds! I brought in petrified wood, petrified palm (root and fiber), whale bone, dinosaur bones, a polished Condor agate, a skeletal quartz specimen, and a broken Zacatecas geode. My daughter, Becca, sat next to me the whole time, passing out specimens, showing how to hold rocks, and modeling eye protection. We talked about the basics of the three rock types - spending more time on basic vocabulary and describing things than the actual science. They got to touch the samples and we used all kind of words to describe their texture and colors. I handed to each of them a polished stone, a piece of petrified wood from AZ, a turitella fossil from Malibu, and a small plastic dinosaur skull (buy them in tubes from places like Michael's hobby store.) I then took them out back to the playground and broke open two more Zacatecas geodes with my rock hammer as they stood 10 feet away. By then they were ready to bolt and play It was a great time. When I came in the next day, the director (who runs a few other daycares in our area) asked if I could do the talk for her other locations, so I'll be doing a couple more later in August. Pictures; Thanks for lookin' Lowell
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Post by krazydiamond on Jul 30, 2011 14:37:39 GMT -5
very cool.
KD
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Post by tanyafrench on Jul 30, 2011 19:00:35 GMT -5
Lowell, she is precious and you can tell she's very proud of her Dad. That is an awesome thing to do for these kids and you may just be starting a new crop of rock hounds.
Tanya
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