Investigate with Jam Blog

Dinosaur Exploring

8/17/2017

This is a special KB edition to Investigate With Jam.
Jam has been traveling from city to city having his own adventures with family this summer. These next few blogs will be preschool focused with KB aka Mr. Kal Bradley.

The Scope, Norfolk’s city arena, showcased a traveling exhibit called Jurassic Quest. The main hall display showed a variety of life size animatronic dinosaurs in various habitats and lifestyle scenarios accompanied by information boards. One scene showed a dinosaur attack, however I questioned the need for the “flowing blood” to heighten the point. They made a fountain of red water flow from the dinosaur bite. It was quite funny.

They had fossil displays of dinosaur bones, plant life, and other ancient creatures along with a D.I.Y. fossil making craft station. The exhibit even had indoor sand boxes where kids could practice their excavation skills.

The most interactive and popular attractions for the kids were the robotic dinosaur rides and the moon bounce obstacle courses. You simply cannot have a children’s event without some sort of moon bounce.

By far the best exhibit was the baby Dinos. Yes in 2017 you can pet and interact with a baby dinosaur. Shocking! These cute hand puppets looked great, felt pretty real, and were even a little feisty. Kal found out the hard way.

Some of the sections like the rides and moon bounces were an additional cost to the ticket price but overall it was a good exhibit to spend your money on. Make sure you take water because the Scoop charged me $5 a bottle. Thirsty much?

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Find out if Jurassic Quest will be near your town: https://www.jurassicquest.com/

Case Study #16- Dinosaur Count
In this KB edition, here is a number 3 dinosaur inspired coloring page. Can you count the horns, eggs, and footprints?

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Jam goes on a creature walk

4/30/2017

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The Investigate with Jam crew took a creature walk to the playground. During our journey, we tried our best to count all the creatures we could find. As expected we saw too many birds so we decided to only count the single ones and not the flock. As we looked for different animals and insects we started to notice their homes and potential hiding places. It was fun trying to guess what creatures could live in each place.

Our simple creature walk also turned out to be a magical experience. Did you know in Laurel Maryland you could find elephants, peacocks, and lions on a walk to the playground? It’s true…. well according to Kal. He even pointed to a red and blue peacock, and I got a picture of it. Can you see it? Try closing your eyes. Can you see it now? I told you a magical experience. I love the imagination at work.

Our final count was as follows:
11 squirrels
7 birds
3 crows
1 falcon/ hawk (there was some debate)
1 butterfly
1 lion
2 elephant
1 peacock
10 nests

Activity

Take a creature walk on you next walking trip.

Case study #15- creature walk. Look for something that flies, walks, hops, crawls, or swims. List what you find.

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Jam investigates fishing

7/10/2015

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Jam went fishing at Lake Mackintosh Park in Burlington North Carolina. His intent was to have fun by catching and releasing as many fish as possible. First he needed to get his bait. Luckily he had his dad to help.

Next he had to learn how to cast his rod.
He picked that up pretty fast.

The next and most important thing about fishing to learn is the patience for the fish. Some people enjoy sitting around resting at the water’s edge, but not Jam. After about 30 minutes he was found on the playground.

The day was not lost. Guess who caught a fish. Here are 5 facts I thought were pretty interesting about fish.

1. Fish can drown in water if the oxygen level is too low.
2. There was a fish that lived to be 65 years old.
3. Most lipsticks are made with fish scales. Thanks Cover Girl.
4. The first public aquarium was built in London in 1853.
5. The GloFish® gets its “glow” by injecting the fish egg with fluorescent proteins.

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Go fishing. You might need a fishing license depending on your age and location.

Case #2: Download the fish crossword puzzle. Visit your local pet or fish store and try to solve the riddles. If you are not close to a store that sells fish go fishing for the answers online.

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