This was a Science Club project put together by a group of seven children (6-9 year olds) and they were justifiably proud of all of their hard work!!!
Enjoy your walk through our Museum!
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the welcome sign on the front door,
decorated with fish printing (rubber fish from Dick Blick)
decorated with fish printing (rubber fish from Dick Blick)
seal fact cards accompany artwork
the five zones of the ocean:
Epipelagic (Sunlight)
Mesopelagic (Twilight)
Bathypelagic (Midnight)
Abyssopelagic (Abyss)
Hadalpelagic (Trench)
this friendly little diver accompanied folks on their tour of the ocean
signs also directed our guests
dolphin exhibit (Folkmanis hand puppet)
dolphin fact cards
a few bonus facts about Narwhals from the
our coral reef display
layers of dyed coffee filters and cotton swabs
with toilet paper tube sea anemones
Zac's playstands make the perfect display space
fish dart in and out of our coral reef
drawn with window crayons behind the display
the sunlight zone is the only zone to have plants...
our dyed pompom yarn seaweed hangs from the ceiling
an assortment of water from around the world for our guests to taste:
France
Norway
Italy
Fiji
* * * there are many waters but it's all one water * * *
our two displays for the wall of water facts:
a bin of water and floating coconuts
a tote bag of flour and cornmeal weighing 22 lbs
one side of the chalkboard displays our graph
created using information in One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
created using information in One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
average daily water use in countries around the world, measured in buckets
average daily water use per person in North America:
55 buckets
55 buckets
do you think you would use that much water if you had to carry it?
WHY is our number so high?
on the other side of the chalkboard, used as a divider
between the sunlight zone and the twilight zone...
a pinkie-printed krill swarm overlaid with the Antarctic food web
the bioluminescence matching game
(invented by one of my students)
(invented by one of my students)
did you know that bioluminescence is the most common form of animal communication on the planet?
can you match the full-color animal pictures
with pictures showing JUST the parts of them that light up?
(yes, it is glow-in-the-dark paint)
our guests also had to put on glow stick bracelets at this station and wear them for the rest of their museum tour
welcome to the home of the giant squid
our life-size construction paper giant squid wrapped around the kitchen...
and headed up the steps...
and down the hall and wrapped around back towards us
eight 9-foot long arms
two 40-foot long tentacles
each covered in 2-inch wide suckers
as the tentacles came to an end, they arrived at a map
little flags showed locations around the world where giant squid have been found washed shore
our display of books we read and resources we used to create our museum
the full-size eye (the size of a dinner plate) of the giant squid
courtesy of Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
courtesy of Actual Size by Steve Jenkins
fact cards for the giant squid and the sperm whale
(they have mighty to-the-death battles in the pitch-black midnight zone)
another midnight zone resident, the ping-pong tree sponge
heading down the steps into the library... and into the abyss
look down... do you know that you're stepping in ooze?
our construction paper collage sea lilies
a poster inspired by Down, Down, Down by Steve Jenkins
mono-printed bacteria using the Gelli printing plates
for the very brave, there was the crawlspace
aka the Mariana Trench
students mixed a custom color for these deep sea crustaceans
(above: a close up view)
(above: a close up view)
(below: in real life, they are tiny because of the weight of the ocean water pressing down on them from above)
they also nailed up black fabric to create a backdrop in the crawlspace
a mysterious world
favorite science experiments were also set up downstairs for our guests
Penguin Camo
How Fat Helps Whales Stay Warm
Game with a Globe
Cornmeal Currents
Deep-Sea Currents
real beach glass... my gift to the students for all of their hard work
some students also made gifts for their parents...
a 2008 Creep into the Deep calendar!
(blank scrapbook calendars with 12 x 12 pages; here is my example one)
cloud stencil
the air above, before we dive into the water below
every inch of artwork = 250 feet of depth
by the end of the artwork for all twelve months we will be 36,000 feet down
(the deepest part of the ocean)
January
sunlight zone: the seal
we ended of course with a reception... yummy food... happy chatter...
and an invitation for families to borrow books from our resource table!
full list -- with links to every day's activities, all books, all art project supplies, and all experiments -- is found on my website at the Ecology page
highly recommended viewing:
A Plastic Ocean
Immersive Experience
Immersive Experience
Immersive Experience
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