We are having a sort of "catch up/field trip" week this week. We have some work to finish from previous weeks, some areas of study we wanted to explore more fully, and many field trip locations in the area to explore. So, we took a week to accomplish some of those things. Yesterday, we spent some time at the Smithsonian Naturalist Museum. This is one of the best educational museums I've been to anywhere and it's 15 minutes from our house, in Leesburg! While here, we looked at a full-size grizzly bear skin (see photos), classified spiders and insects, learned about microscopic insects which live on animals (rabies, scabies, fleas, oh my), searched for arthropod homes amongst a huge pile of shells, and learned about quartz and jasper. That was in an hour and a half. Whew.
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