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nice, alex. i am doing some work for amnh's resources for learning site these days. this is mainly for teachers and there are over 500 online resources here from all of the museum's departments. i thought maybe ren might be interested in some of the stuff here for smaller kids. you can browse by age group (you actully have to do a simple search before you get this option) and there are some pretty cool sites here. i am cataloging some astronomy stuff this week -- learning all about the cosmos.
Hey Linda,
Can I get a behind the scenes tour of your workplace when I return in Jan 2003?
Ren started school last week. He's attending one of the only Public Montessori's in the country. It's located in an old one room schoolhouse in CottonwoodCanyon about ten minutes away. I said the Pledge of Allegience with him on the first day & kinda mumbled the under god part & his teacher gave me a really sweet smile as if to say it'salright Frank. They have an orrery in the schoolhouse & he's started saying things like 3rd planet from the sun. We saw a skunk the other day & he asked me if I thought skunks were ornery? He's starting to use words that he has heard being read to him & then suddenly a meaning vacuole appears & he'll say cul-de-sac, phlogiston or ornery with perfect intent & clarity. I spent alot of time in the AMNH as a young teenager. I''ve even been thru some of the non display collections & am sure an important part of my mind was built in that place.
if i am still there in january, i'll see what i can do. since i am a volunteer, i only have access to certain areas, and, like the beetle tour the other day, need a scientist to show me around. a friend of mine just got hired there recently, so maybe i can organize a tour with her. not too sure what you want to see. the mammalogy library is actually pretty cool - it is where the main library used to be - with spiral staircases and old iron shelving. also they have a tusk room up there which is pretty cool. what i want to see is the room where they use flesh eating beetles to clean bones.
i have been helping out with an inventory of the rare book collection one day a week, and it's pretty amazing to actually hold and flip through some of these old books. last week we went through all of ernest seton's journals. he was trained as an artist, so there were beautiful watercolors and illustrations among the journal entries for his travels in the us and europe.
i have tried the opening link 4 times and all i get is page not found
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- alex 10-04-2002 6:21 pm
nice, alex. i am doing some work for amnh's resources for learning site these days. this is mainly for teachers and there are over 500 online resources here from all of the museum's departments. i thought maybe ren might be interested in some of the stuff here for smaller kids. you can browse by age group (you actully have to do a simple search before you get this option) and there are some pretty cool sites here. i am cataloging some astronomy stuff this week -- learning all about the cosmos.
- linda 10-04-2002 7:15 pm [add a comment]
Hey Linda,
Can I get a behind the scenes tour of your workplace when I return in Jan 2003?
- steve 10-04-2002 7:55 pm [add a comment]
Ren started school last week. He's attending one of the only Public Montessori's in the country. It's located in an old one room schoolhouse in CottonwoodCanyon about ten minutes away. I said the Pledge of Allegience with him on the first day & kinda mumbled the under god part & his teacher gave me a really sweet smile as if to say it'salright Frank. They have an orrery in the schoolhouse & he's started saying things like 3rd planet from the sun. We saw a skunk the other day & he asked me if I thought skunks were ornery? He's starting to use words that he has heard being read to him & then suddenly a meaning vacuole appears & he'll say cul-de-sac, phlogiston or ornery with perfect intent & clarity. I spent alot of time in the AMNH as a young teenager. I''ve even been thru some of the non display collections & am sure an important part of my mind was built in that place.
- frank 10-04-2002 7:56 pm [add a comment]
maybe ren could post a little report about what he's learning in school. like what's an orrery?
- linda 10-04-2002 8:16 pm [add a comment]
- tom moody 10-04-2002 8:33 pm [add a comment]
ah. merci.
- linda 10-04-2002 8:52 pm [add a comment]
More from Joseph Wright of Derby.
- alex 10-04-2002 9:02 pm [add a comment]
Oops, that link turns out to be copies of the old masters.
Here's the real (virtual) thing.
- alex 10-04-2002 9:36 pm [add a comment]
if i am still there in january, i'll see what i can do. since i am a volunteer, i only have access to certain areas, and, like the beetle tour the other day, need a scientist to show me around. a friend of mine just got hired there recently, so maybe i can organize a tour with her. not too sure what you want to see. the mammalogy library is actually pretty cool - it is where the main library used to be - with spiral staircases and old iron shelving. also they have a tusk room up there which is pretty cool. what i want to see is the room where they use flesh eating beetles to clean bones.
i have been helping out with an inventory of the rare book collection one day a week, and it's pretty amazing to actually hold and flip through some of these old books. last week we went through all of ernest seton's journals. he was trained as an artist, so there were beautiful watercolors and illustrations among the journal entries for his travels in the us and europe.
- linda 10-04-2002 8:15 pm [add a comment]
i have tried the opening link 4 times and all i get is page not found
- Skinny 10-05-2002 8:01 am [add a comment]
It was there yesterday, but not now; I get the same result linking via google...maybe it'll be back..?
- alex 10-05-2002 2:28 pm [add a comment]