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.

July

The Engelstad Family Special Exhibit Series: Bizarre Beasts Past & Present - travel back in time to explore some of the oddest animals who inhabited the Earth.  Who adapted and  survived?  Who did not?    

July 3 & 4  ANCIENT EGYPT  Write On.  Last week’s activity continued.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and paper isn’t made in a week, at least not when you’re making it out of papyrus.  Start your 4th of July with a bang as you pound out your papyrus.  Activity:  Finish the final steps from papyrus to paper.

July 10 HAPPY 19th ANNIVERSARY LAS VEGAS NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM!!   Desert Animal Fun-o-Rama!!!  

From 11:00 – 1:00 see a live camel and tortoise, have your face painted, eat ice-cream, swim like a rock-hopper penguin, and eat like a thorny devil.

July 11 – 1:15 Activity:  Eat like a thorny devil

July 17 & 18  FLYING PTERODACTYLS Activity:  Learn about flying reptile flight by crafting a pterosaur plane.

July 24 & 25  PREHISTORIC BEAST WARS Who do you think would win a battle between a whorl-tooth shark and a hammerhead?  Think about different beasts and their weird adaptations.  Activity:   Decide which Law of Weird would rule the day.

July 31 & August 1    WEIRD WILD THINGS Activity:   Use pieces of animals to create your own peculiar creature.

 

August 2010

Creature Features...This month, weekend scientists explore different features of creatures each Saturday and Sunday.  Young scientists will take a closer look at everyday objects and determine which wild thing has that similar characteristic.  For example, what animal has an attribute that is like a snorkel?