Ahoy!
All you need to know about this week is that we went to Jacksonville today. Sure, many of you may be thinkig, "gee whiz, it's only a city." For those of you that think this you really don't understand. Our day generally starts with walking to our office, turning on the computer, and typing the entire time, only stopping for lunch. In other words, it gets dull. So a trip OUT of the office on a BEAUTIFUL day like today was great.
Why did we go today? It doesn't matter--WE WENT. Just kidding, it matters. Ashleigh, Dr. Ellis, Ms. Dale, and I drove in a car to the Museum of Science and History (MOSH, see below) in Jacksonville to check out the Megalodon Exhibit, which is coming to our museum this fall. This is the same exhibit I'm writing my guides on, so it was super helpful to see it in person.
Here are a few highlights from the trip. Keep in mind that this is only part 1....part 2 comes next week.
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| This is the beginning of the exhibit...what you see "inside" the Megalodon. Those random people standing inside of it? They're not random, they're from the FLMNH exhibit team. |
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| This is some of the "math" that I can use for the educator and docent guides: the correlation between the size of the shark tooth and the length of the shark. |
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| SHARK JAWS |
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| This is a jacket that a minor actor donated to the exhibit for the pop culture section of the exhibit. |
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| I was "measuring up" against the length of different sharks. |
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| This is a truly terrifying shark. |
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| There were even dig boxes where kids could find Megalodon teeth...I found one! |
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| Sneak peek from PART 2 next week....maybe I'll answer the question: why is there a deer on the ceiling? |
That's it for now! See y'all in class!
Taylor
Intern, FLMNH
License to Math
Wow! Taylor I love your enthusiasm (and all of the pictures you have shared.) I had NO IDEA that the megaladon exhibit was in Jacksonville. More importantly, I had NO IDEA that MOSH was in Jacksonville!! I am happy you got to see the exhibit you are writing for, bet that did a world of wonders for designing your math in the museum program.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA, oh girl you crack me up! It was so much fun! I'm glad we got to go!
ReplyDeleteAwesome Taylor! That's pretty neat that you're getting to check out the museum that you're writing your report on. I would go to MOSI (Museum of Science and Industry) when I was a little kid and absolutely loved it! Also, I'm not sure if you meant to do this, but I know G-WIZ (Gee Whiz) used to be a science museum in Sarasota. Maybe it was unintended, but anyways, I hope you enjoy working on your report for this really cool museum!
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