Many of the children saw our first duckling work hard to come into the world. This one hatched in about 9 hours after only 25 days. We weren’t expecting her/him until Monday. Hope we’ll have some brothers and sisters this week!

The nickname of this species of tree frog is smiling frog. Can you tell why? They are so much fun to watch! Maybe he is smiling because I just fed him crickets.

Love my new camera! It’s perfect for displaying small specimens on my activboard.

TICCIT (pronounced “ticket,” which stands for “Trees into Cartons, Cartons into Trees”) is an outreach and educational program for school-aged children held every year at the end of April to honor Earth Day and highlight the renewability and sustainability of paper and paperboard packaging. A team from Graphic Packaging presented this program to our third graders.

I promised several classes I would put the information for both of these on my blog. We used the ultraviolet bubbles in the Black Light Lab. The floating jellyfish is similar to the squids we used. (See previous post.) You may have called it a Cartesian diver.

Look at the skull Luke found in his owl pellet!

The Plasma Ball is always a fun learning tool. It is a glass globe containing a low-density gas and a central electrode that creates lightning-like streams of light.