Posted by Laurie Sullivan at 10/3/2011
3, 2, 1 Journal Responses from Trees and the Animals that Live In and Around Them Exhibit List 3 things you learned
- Baby trees can be smaller than a pencil
- Black bears live in Virginia forests
- Hawks live in Virginia forests
- Red bats can eat up to 3,000 bugs a day
- Bug eat acorns
- The biggest cone is the sugar pine cone
- Tree rings tell the age of the tree
- The Devil Walking Stick tree is sharp
- The amber is 6 – 10 million years old
- Termites are very small
- Red bats live in VA
- Eyed click beetle
- Petrified wood
- Animals are everywhere
- I learned that chocolate comes from a tree.
- I learned that a seedling is the beginning of a plant.
- There are different types of bark
- When a bear is stuffed its called a taxidermy
List 2 things that surprised you
- The biggest pine cone
- Amber
- Fossil leaves. Who knew!
- Real stuffed animals
- The tent
- Leaves can be fossils
- Termites are small
- Bugs eat acorns
- There are leaves from 30 million years ago
- Red bats eat a lot of insects!!
- Bobcats live in Virginia
- Leaves can get fossilized
- Moths and butterflies aren’t that hard to tell apart.
- Some clothing can come from trees.
- The fossil tree sap amber is 6 – 10 million years old
- It surprised me when I learned that Red bats can eat up to 3,000 insects a night.
- I never heard of of a Eyed Click Beetle
- Seeing the bobcat teeth
- The animals in the exhibit used to be alive.
- The squirrel has retractable claws
- That chocolate is made out of trees
- Carpenter bees dig through wood
- Bats are the only flying mammal
Write about 1 thing that was your favorite part of your visit to the Discovery Lab today
- I liked the giant pine cone
- The leaf fossil
- The bear (ROAR)
- The biggest Pine cone in the world!
- Flying squirrel
- The real stuffed animals
- They had the big bear
- Seeing the video
- The bug in the amber
- The tent!
- Finding the hidden animals with the flashlights
- The fossils
- When we got to look at the animals
- My favorite things were smelling things and seeing the cute squirrel
- My favorite part of Discovery Lab today was…doing the scavenger hunt and searching for the animals in the painting.
- The stuffed bear and fox
- Seeing the dead animals
- My best part was using the flashlight. It was awesome because I get to look for animals in the painting.
- All of the leaf collection.
- To discover all of these new facts that I learned. And to touch the 30 million year old leaf.
- I liked how everything was real and not fake, including the animals.
- The flying squirrel
- I loved the leaf fossils
Write Your Own Questions
- What is the biggest tree animal?
- How long have trees existed?
- What tree does the banana come from?
- Why was there a fire at the swamp wildlife refuge?
- What can you observe from tree rings?
- What can you tell if the lines on tree rings are spaced out (good weather).