Today we visited a reptile zoo full of cool reptiles. Here are some videos from this incredible place:
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
Grand Canyon National Park~South Rim
This is Show Family 2 reporting from Arizona. We were able to visit the Grand Canyon National Park the other day!
It is one of the coolest things we have visited so far. It is so huge that you can hardly believe your eyes when looking at it. It is 277 river miles long, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep. It is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Here is Auburn telling you about it:
And here is our dog Ace:
Lesson Plans/Unit Studies
Official Site of Grand Canyon
Activities on how to become a ranger
Lesson plans about TGC from K-12
Books
Hey Ranger!
More information
Lost in the Grand Canyon from PBS
National Geographic
Games
NG presents The Grand Canyon for Kids
It is one of the coolest things we have visited so far. It is so huge that you can hardly believe your eyes when looking at it. It is 277 river miles long, up to 18 miles wide and a mile deep. It is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
Here is Auburn telling you about it:
And here is our dog Ace:
Lesson Plans/Unit Studies
Official Site of Grand Canyon
Activities on how to become a ranger
Lesson plans about TGC from K-12
Books
Hey Ranger!
More information
Lost in the Grand Canyon from PBS
National Geographic
Games
NG presents The Grand Canyon for Kids
Elk at the Grand Canyon National Park
This is Show Family 2 reporting from Arizona. One of the places we have visited while here is the Grand Canyon. We saw some elk while visiting here.
Elk are one of the largest species of deer and one of the largest mammals in North America and eastern Asia. They live in forests or on the edge of forest. They eat grass, plants, leaves and bark.
Here is a movie we took of one of the elk we saw:
More information about elk:
National Geographic
Lesson Plans/Unit Studies
Curriculum about elk
Too many elk? lesson plan
Coloring Pages
American elk
Elk coloring page
E is for elk page
Yellowstone elk page
Children's books
Ella, the elk
Elk are one of the largest species of deer and one of the largest mammals in North America and eastern Asia. They live in forests or on the edge of forest. They eat grass, plants, leaves and bark.
Here is a movie we took of one of the elk we saw:
More information about elk:
National Geographic
Lesson Plans/Unit Studies
Curriculum about elk
Too many elk? lesson plan
Coloring Pages
American elk
Elk coloring page
E is for elk page
Yellowstone elk page
Children's books
Ella, the elk
Squirrel at Grand Canyon National Park
This is Show Family 2 reporting from Arizona. Another animal we saw while visiting the Grand Canyon was the squirrel. Our niece Mikaylah was able to feed one by hand:
Squirrels are one of the most successful animals when it comes to learning to live together with humans. They mostly live in trees. They eat plants, nuts, fruit and some flowers. Sometimes squirrels try to move into people houses and have to be removed. I think they are so cute. Do you like squirrels?
More facts:
National Geographic
Games
Squirrel escape
Squirrel maze
Arts and Crafts
Nutty squirrels
Many squirrel crafts and activities
Pine cone squirrel craft
Coloring pages
Multiple pages of squirrels
S if for squirrel page
Books
Scaredy Squirrel
Squirrels are one of the most successful animals when it comes to learning to live together with humans. They mostly live in trees. They eat plants, nuts, fruit and some flowers. Sometimes squirrels try to move into people houses and have to be removed. I think they are so cute. Do you like squirrels?
More facts:
National Geographic
Games
Squirrel escape
Squirrel maze
Arts and Crafts
Nutty squirrels
Many squirrel crafts and activities
Pine cone squirrel craft
Coloring pages
Multiple pages of squirrels
S if for squirrel page
Books
Scaredy Squirrel
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Sea World in San Antonio Texas-Beluga Whales
Show Family Two here reporting from San Antonio, Texas. One of our favorite things to see so far, was a show that we visited while at Sea World. The show had acrobats, dolphins and beluga whales.
We were so impressed with the interaction between the whales and their trainers!
We thought they were beautiful and graceful animals.
We hope to be able to spend more time seeing them while in California and Florida.
More about Beluga Whales:
Beluga Whales
Beluga whales are warm-blooded mammals that breathe air through the blowhole on the top of their head. Their blowhole is covered by a muscular flap which provides a water-tight seal. Beluga whales cannot breathe through their mouths and can hold their breath for 20-25 minutes. They are extremely social animals, living, hunting and migrating in groups called pods.
The beluga whales are the most vocal of the toothed whale. Arctic fisherman say they can hear the beluga whales’ sounds coming from miles away, and they can feel the vibration of their sounds coming through the hulls of their fishing boats. This behavior has earned them the nickname “sea canary.”
Fun Facts
• The beluga whale is the only whale with a flexible neck.
• A beluga whale uses its pectoral flippers (forelimbs) mainly to steer and stop.
• The beluga whale is also called the white whale. The word beluga comes from the Russian word for white, “belukha.”
• Beluga caviar comes from the beluga sturgeon, not the beluga whale.
• This whale has the ability to swim backward.
Adopt a Beluga Whale
More Facts:
National Geographic for Kids
Sea World Animal Bytes
Beluga Whales Facts
Facts and Fun Activities
Games:
Animated Jigsaw Puzzle
Whale Flip Game
Save the Whales Game
Arts and Crafts:
Origami Whale
Ocean Diorama
Whale Mobile
Coloring Pages
Beluga Whales
Whale Coloring Book
Page with Anatomy labels
Beluga Whale Page
Books and Stories
Interactive story about whales
Beluga Sky
Beluga Days
Beluga Whales up Close
The Little Lost Baby Beluga Whale
Unit Studies and Lesson Plans:
Unit Study from Sea World
Lesson Plans from Scholastic
Whale Migration Maps
Experiment about blubber
We were so impressed with the interaction between the whales and their trainers!
We thought they were beautiful and graceful animals.
We hope to be able to spend more time seeing them while in California and Florida.
More about Beluga Whales:
Beluga Whales
Beluga whales are warm-blooded mammals that breathe air through the blowhole on the top of their head. Their blowhole is covered by a muscular flap which provides a water-tight seal. Beluga whales cannot breathe through their mouths and can hold their breath for 20-25 minutes. They are extremely social animals, living, hunting and migrating in groups called pods.
The beluga whales are the most vocal of the toothed whale. Arctic fisherman say they can hear the beluga whales’ sounds coming from miles away, and they can feel the vibration of their sounds coming through the hulls of their fishing boats. This behavior has earned them the nickname “sea canary.”
Fun Facts
• The beluga whale is the only whale with a flexible neck.
• A beluga whale uses its pectoral flippers (forelimbs) mainly to steer and stop.
• The beluga whale is also called the white whale. The word beluga comes from the Russian word for white, “belukha.”
• Beluga caviar comes from the beluga sturgeon, not the beluga whale.
• This whale has the ability to swim backward.
Adopt a Beluga Whale
More Facts:
National Geographic for Kids
Sea World Animal Bytes
Beluga Whales Facts
Facts and Fun Activities
Games:
Animated Jigsaw Puzzle
Whale Flip Game
Save the Whales Game
Arts and Crafts:
Origami Whale
Ocean Diorama
Whale Mobile
Coloring Pages
Beluga Whales
Whale Coloring Book
Page with Anatomy labels
Beluga Whale Page
Books and Stories
Interactive story about whales
Beluga Sky
Beluga Days
Beluga Whales up Close
The Little Lost Baby Beluga Whale
Unit Studies and Lesson Plans:
Unit Study from Sea World
Lesson Plans from Scholastic
Whale Migration Maps
Experiment about blubber
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Gavin the Falconer
This is Show Family 2 reporting live from Lakehills, Texas:
This week, we met a really cool kid named Gavin. Gavin is a falconer. Here is Gavin with his mom and his sister.
A falconer is a person who trains falcons or hawks for hunting. Gavin spent many hours learning lots of different things on top of having to apprentice or train under someone else in order to become a falconer. There are three falconers in his state that fly long wings like peregrine falcons. He and his father are two of those, so that means there is only one other falconer besides them. Gavin has his own falcon that he has trained. It took him many months to train his falcon and he is still training him to be better and better at hunting.
Falconry is one of the oldest forms of hunting and is often used together with hunting with horses and dogs. One of the differences between hunting with a horse or a dog and hunting with a falcon is the horse and dog are domesticated animals and the falcon is a wild animal. Falconry is the oldest field sport known to mankind.
Gavin also told me a bunch of neat facts about falcons. Here are some facts about these amazing birds:
Falcons have incredible eyesight. They are believed to be able to spot a pigeon from over five miles under ideal conditions. They are the swiftest of the birds of prey. In a dive, they can top speeds of 200 miles an hour. This makes them the fastest moving creatures on earth. It has been calculated that as a peregrine falcon comes out of a dive, and is straightening out for horizontal flight, it is pulling around 25G. Humans, on average, can tolerate 5-6G well.
They are at the top of the food chain, so adults have no natural predators. The female is the boss of the house, so the male is cautious around her.
How can these birds fly so fast? It is because of how they are built.
Falcons are very streamlined. They have pointed wings with slim, stiff, unslotted feathers. Because of this, they have almost zero resistance when flying.
They have especially strong flight muscles that allow them to fly fast. They have a large, strong heart and ultra efficient lungs and air sacs. Everybody knows how difficult it gets to breathe when you're walking in a heavy storm. You have to turn your head to be able to breath. The falcon does not walk in the storm, it dive-bombs at 350 k/hour. Breathing would be absolutely impossible without special adaptions.
The air pressure from a 200 mph (320 km/h) dive could possibly damage it's lungs, but small bony tubercles in a falcon's nostrils guide the shock waves of the air entering the nostrils (compare intake ramps and inlet cones of jet engines), enabling the bird to breathe more easily while diving by reducing the change in air pressure.
To protect their eyes, the falcons use their nictitating membranes (third eyelids) to spread tears and clear debris from their eyes while maintaining vision.
Let's look at the lungs on a bird a bit closer. When a person breathes, air flows into its lungs and back out again. Bird lungs operate quite differently from ours. Instead of inhaling and then reversing flow when exhaling, birds have a clever lung design that permits them to circulate air in a single direction continuously.
Birds lungs with diagram and explanation
I can see why Gavin would want to work with such a fascinating animal!
More resources on falcons:
Live webcams of Peregrine Falcons
Videos
Videos and slideshows , Video of falcon , Pigeon vs Falcon video , Facts and video clip
Coloring Pages
Falcon head , Peregrine Falcon , Another Peregrine Falcon Page , Falcon
Books
Audio: A to Z Mysteries: The Falcons Feathers
Raptor, A Kid's Guide to Birds of Prey , List of books for Young Readers , The Malted Falcon: A Chet Gecko Mystery
Facts and other Fun
National Geographic Kids Info on Peregrine Falcon (Has video, e-card and printable)
Birds of Prey Facts for Kids , Peregrine Falcon Facts , Facts and info on how to adopt a Peregrine Falcon
Games
Raptor Rescue Kids Games , Fierce Fliers Game , Peregrine Falcon Games
Arts and Crafts:
How to Make an Origami Falcon
Other Fun Stuff
Experiment related to Peregrine Falcon and DDT , Quiz on Falcons , Lesson plans on Falcons , Lesson Plans on Birds of Prey , Science Lesson Plan on Raptors , Unit Study with Falcon , Birds of Prey Unit Study ideas
*****Share your thoughts and questions with us through the comments section. Just click on comments and it will take you to the correct spot.
This week, we met a really cool kid named Gavin. Gavin is a falconer. Here is Gavin with his mom and his sister.
A falconer is a person who trains falcons or hawks for hunting. Gavin spent many hours learning lots of different things on top of having to apprentice or train under someone else in order to become a falconer. There are three falconers in his state that fly long wings like peregrine falcons. He and his father are two of those, so that means there is only one other falconer besides them. Gavin has his own falcon that he has trained. It took him many months to train his falcon and he is still training him to be better and better at hunting.
Falconry is one of the oldest forms of hunting and is often used together with hunting with horses and dogs. One of the differences between hunting with a horse or a dog and hunting with a falcon is the horse and dog are domesticated animals and the falcon is a wild animal. Falconry is the oldest field sport known to mankind.
Gavin also told me a bunch of neat facts about falcons. Here are some facts about these amazing birds:Falcons have incredible eyesight. They are believed to be able to spot a pigeon from over five miles under ideal conditions. They are the swiftest of the birds of prey. In a dive, they can top speeds of 200 miles an hour. This makes them the fastest moving creatures on earth. It has been calculated that as a peregrine falcon comes out of a dive, and is straightening out for horizontal flight, it is pulling around 25G. Humans, on average, can tolerate 5-6G well.
They are at the top of the food chain, so adults have no natural predators. The female is the boss of the house, so the male is cautious around her.
How can these birds fly so fast? It is because of how they are built.Falcons are very streamlined. They have pointed wings with slim, stiff, unslotted feathers. Because of this, they have almost zero resistance when flying.
They have especially strong flight muscles that allow them to fly fast. They have a large, strong heart and ultra efficient lungs and air sacs. Everybody knows how difficult it gets to breathe when you're walking in a heavy storm. You have to turn your head to be able to breath. The falcon does not walk in the storm, it dive-bombs at 350 k/hour. Breathing would be absolutely impossible without special adaptions.
The air pressure from a 200 mph (320 km/h) dive could possibly damage it's lungs, but small bony tubercles in a falcon's nostrils guide the shock waves of the air entering the nostrils (compare intake ramps and inlet cones of jet engines), enabling the bird to breathe more easily while diving by reducing the change in air pressure.
To protect their eyes, the falcons use their nictitating membranes (third eyelids) to spread tears and clear debris from their eyes while maintaining vision.Let's look at the lungs on a bird a bit closer. When a person breathes, air flows into its lungs and back out again. Bird lungs operate quite differently from ours. Instead of inhaling and then reversing flow when exhaling, birds have a clever lung design that permits them to circulate air in a single direction continuously.
Birds lungs with diagram and explanation
I can see why Gavin would want to work with such a fascinating animal!
More resources on falcons:Live webcams of Peregrine Falcons
Videos
Videos and slideshows , Video of falcon , Pigeon vs Falcon video , Facts and video clip
Coloring Pages
Falcon head , Peregrine Falcon , Another Peregrine Falcon Page , Falcon
Books
Audio: A to Z Mysteries: The Falcons Feathers
Raptor, A Kid's Guide to Birds of Prey , List of books for Young Readers , The Malted Falcon: A Chet Gecko Mystery
Facts and other Fun
National Geographic Kids Info on Peregrine Falcon (Has video, e-card and printable)
Birds of Prey Facts for Kids , Peregrine Falcon Facts , Facts and info on how to adopt a Peregrine Falcon
Games
Raptor Rescue Kids Games , Fierce Fliers Game , Peregrine Falcon Games
Arts and Crafts:
How to Make an Origami Falcon
Other Fun Stuff
Experiment related to Peregrine Falcon and DDT , Quiz on Falcons , Lesson plans on Falcons , Lesson Plans on Birds of Prey , Science Lesson Plan on Raptors , Unit Study with Falcon , Birds of Prey Unit Study ideas
*****Share your thoughts and questions with us through the comments section. Just click on comments and it will take you to the correct spot.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Whitetail Deer
This is Show Family Two. One of the things we have enjoyed since being in this part of Texas, is that the place we are staying has many whitetail deer here. 
We have been able to feed them right out of our hands.
The things we have fed them so far are carrots and corn that has been made into feed for deer. We bought a 50 pound bag of the corn, so we will have plenty of food to feed them during our visit.
This deer is named a whitetail because of its tail. The underside of its tail is white, and it's the only part that you can see when it is running.
Some natural predators of deer are: man, bobcats, wolves, mountain lions and other deer. Some things that these deer eat are: acorns, hay, corn, apples, cabbage, pine, cedar and just about any green that they can get to.
The baby deer are called fawns. The fawns have spots which helps them be able to hide from other animals that might try to kill them.
The whitetail deer have a language and some of the ways they "speak" are: flicking their tails, moving their ears, curling their lips and stomping their feet. The tail waving is typically used to warn other deer of danger. This deer saw our dog and thought it might be in danger:
We are really falling in love with these gentle creatures!
More facts about deer:
National Geographic
Some deer coloring pages:
*White tailed deer and some facts, *Many different deer, *Deer themed coloring pages,
*Deer pages and activivites
More fun:
*How to draw a deer ,*Deer arts and crafts , *Folding paper deer craft , *Pipe cleaner animals with fawn
Deer Games:
*Deer and Hunter Game , *Oh deer game
Books about deer:
*Lightfoot the Deer , *Fawn at Woodland Way , *My Little Book of Whitetails , *Whitetail Deer ,
*Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Online Books or Stories about Deer:
*Short story about deer , *The Tale of Nimble Deer
****Tell us what you like best about deer by leaving a comment.
****Are there any other things you want to say about deer? Leave a comment so we can all hear it.
We have been able to feed them right out of our hands.
The things we have fed them so far are carrots and corn that has been made into feed for deer. We bought a 50 pound bag of the corn, so we will have plenty of food to feed them during our visit.
This deer is named a whitetail because of its tail. The underside of its tail is white, and it's the only part that you can see when it is running.
Some natural predators of deer are: man, bobcats, wolves, mountain lions and other deer. Some things that these deer eat are: acorns, hay, corn, apples, cabbage, pine, cedar and just about any green that they can get to.The baby deer are called fawns. The fawns have spots which helps them be able to hide from other animals that might try to kill them.
The whitetail deer have a language and some of the ways they "speak" are: flicking their tails, moving their ears, curling their lips and stomping their feet. The tail waving is typically used to warn other deer of danger. This deer saw our dog and thought it might be in danger:
We are really falling in love with these gentle creatures!More facts about deer:
National Geographic
Some deer coloring pages:
*White tailed deer and some facts, *Many different deer, *Deer themed coloring pages,
*Deer pages and activivites
More fun:
*How to draw a deer ,*Deer arts and crafts , *Folding paper deer craft , *Pipe cleaner animals with fawn
Deer Games:
*Deer and Hunter Game , *Oh deer game
Books about deer:
*Lightfoot the Deer , *Fawn at Woodland Way , *My Little Book of Whitetails , *Whitetail Deer ,
*Bambi: A Life in the Woods
Online Books or Stories about Deer:
*Short story about deer , *The Tale of Nimble Deer
****Tell us what you like best about deer by leaving a comment.
****Are there any other things you want to say about deer? Leave a comment so we can all hear it.
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