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I See Sea Monsters! Fossils & Scientific Illustration Exploration
Explore Natural History: University of Nebraska State Museum
In this 45 minute class we will examine Mesozoic era fossil evidence, learn about ancient environments, and use our creative skills to sketch an amazing watery world full of mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, sharks and xiphactinus! Xiphacti-what??
Class experience
Let’s paint a picture of the past! We will dive into our Mesozoic Gallery and examine fossil evidence of animals over 65 million years old. Once called sea monsters, we will examine the fossil skeletons of mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, xiphactinus, and sharks! We will learn how they moved, what they ate, and a bit about their ancient environments. All along we will draw what we see, creating scientific illustrations that we will then turn into a watery habitat masterpiece. If you want to...
Students will: - practice the inquiry process skills of observation and questioning; - be introduced to the science of Paleontology - actively engage in the art of Scientific Illustration - participate in discussion and develop an enriched understanding on how paleontology helps us to better understand our natural world
Our Museum Educators Annie, Jen, and Molly have years of experience in communicating science to young learners. As we share the teaching duties of each of our programs you may get a chance to have each one of us interact with your student. As educators we have a variety of strengths, which brings a lovely bit of variety to the learning. Meet Ms. Molly! "Hello. I hold a master’s degree in Archaeological Studies and have worked in museum education and visitor services since 2013. I’ve had the chance to excavate a Roman site in Italy, teach English in China, and work on an organic farm in Panama. I have always been passionate about making science accessible and love to explore cross-cultural connections in all our classes. One of my teaching strengths is that I have an uncanny ability to answer random questions – I just love the challenge! I enjoy hiking, traveling, sports, and guarantee to solve any standard Rubik's Cube in under 90 seconds." Meet Ms. Jen! "I have worked in museum education since 2016. I love bugs and creepy crawly creatures of all kinds. I have my masters in Entomology where I got to deeply study my passion – beetles! I have worked as an entomologist in museum collections in Nebraska and New Mexico. When you love bugs, you love to spend time outside exploring nature and that is what I love most as I hike and garden. I promise to share my passion for science with your students with great calm and kindness. Because, science rocks!" Meet Ms. Annie! "I have been working as a museum educator for over 10 years. I am passionate about learning and asking questions and helping others to do the same. I am a visual learner so I use my Masters in Art Education to create science programs rich in visuals and activities that allow us to reach all types of learners. I am the lucky mom to two great humans, an experienced filmmaker, and I hate to bake. Too much precise measuring. I strongly believe laughter is the best medicine and so endeavor to bring humor and fun, as well as really solid science, to each and every one of our programs."
You will need 3 pieces of paper and a pencil for this class. If you have scissors close by that will be helpful but not necessary.
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Explore Natural History: University of Nebraska State Museum
Come connect to the natural world of science with us! Discovery and curiosity are central to our learning mission and are the backbone of our programs. Our team of professional science educators teach from our museum galleries. That means you...
Group Class
$10
per classMeets once
45 min
Completed by 31 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-12
5-18 learners per class