Critter Connections - Come face-to-face with one of the Museum’s live inhabitants every Saturday at 11:00 &1:00.
Shark Feeding - Imagine you’re swimming in the darkness of the ocean and you encounter a shark, what do you do? Have this and other questions about sharks answered by our Live Animal Curator, Jack Jewell every
Saturday at 2 pm.
Weekend Science -
activities every Saturday beginning at 11:15
& 1:15 and Sunday 1:15.
Note:
All activities are subject to change and will be
done while supplies last.
All animal encounters are subject to change
depending on the availability and temperament.
September 2010 -
Bringing Back
the Oldies
Weekend Scientists will experience four of the
museum’s most popular activities.
September 4 & 5 - NATURE JOURNALS
“Making your own book” is the theme of a
children’s literature project that will take place
in the Cultural Corridor, on Saturday, September 4.
This event is sponsored by Vegas Valley Book
Festival, City of Las Vegas Office of Cultural
Affairs, and Eurie Creative. Check with the Old
Mormon Fort, Las Vegas Library, and Lied Discovery
Children’s Museum for their schedule of literature
activities. Activity:
Create a personal journal about being in the natural
environment.
September 11 & 12 - Special Wildlife
Presentation on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. by Margie
Klein, a Nevada Department of Wildlife Educator.
Escorting Margie will be a live western band gecko
and a desert tortoise. At 1:15 p.m. on Saturday --
B-I-N-G-O is not only the name of a dog that
belonged to a farmer, but it’s a popular trivia
game. Activity: Play
Bingo and get the skinny on insects, dinosaurs, and
sea life.
September 18 & 19 - GRASSHEADS Are your
fingers tired from playing video games? Are your
eyes buggy from watching too much TV? Chill, listen
to some tunes, and eyeball a nylon filled with grass
seed and dirt. Activity:
Fashion a grasshead. Then as the grass (hair)
grows, you can braid it, fluff it, or slick it back
in a style that will make your Barbie or Ken
jealous.
September 25 & 26 - APPLESAUCE &
CINNAMON THINGAMAJIGS It’s approaching October
when pumpkins rule and bats drool. No need to burn
candles and gobble handfuls of candy corn to get
that fall aroma. Activity:
Sculpt a thingamajig to sweeten any room.
LIVING HISTORY
(a 10 minute dramatization performed by local
actors) Uncover the mystery of the ancient Egyptian
mummification process. Ellis Rice is the High Priest
who is showing his son, played by Cory Covell, how
to remove the organs of the Pharaoh.
Sundays at 12:30 & 1:30
p.m.
The National Park Service and the Geological
Institute are partnering to host the 1st
National Fossil Day *TM on October 13, 2010 during
Earth Science Week. National Fossil Day is a
celebration organized to promote public awareness
and stewardship of fossils. At the Las Vegas
Natural History Museum, we will be providing
hands-on weekend activities that foster a greater
appreciation of fossils and their scientific and
educational value.
October
October 2 & 3 - Bone to Fossil Fossils
form when hard parts are replaced by minerals. A
permineralized fossil, such as petrified wood, is
filled with beautiful multicolored crystals.
Activity: Investigate
permineralization by dipping a sponge in wax.
October 9 & 10 -Trace Fossils Trace fossils
are the most common fossils found in nature. Trace
fossils are impressions left in the sediment from
once living things.
Activity: Using a concoction of coffee and flour,
you will explore this process and make a fossil
impression.
October 16 & 17 - Fossil Dig -- The
Trilobite, a Most Interesting Fossil Trilobites were
one of the most successful species that survived for
250 million years.
Activity: Venture into the Egyptian Garden and
unearth trilobites.
October 23 & 24 - Asphalt Fossils – Millions
of animal fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar
Pits. How can tar turn a bone into a fossil? Why
did so many animals become trapped? Activity:
Examine how animals can become trapped in tar and
become fossils. Match the fossil with the animal.
Halloween is for
creeps! Scuzzy Science—Get weirded out!
We let creeps* in for free on Friday, October 29 &
Saturday, October 30! Kids in costume
only!
Friday, October 29 & Saturday, October 30 10:00 a.m.
– 3 p.m.
Better to make slime than to be slimed.
Worm into the eerie Bat Cave and feel nightmarish
stuff.
Lay your eyeballs on beastly animals.
Spot the mummy’s hands and earn an ugly tattoo.
Bounce a boo bubble (Bring a cotton glove.)
Sunday, October 31, 2010
1:00 Homely varmints in the classroom
1:15 Concoct ooze
