what's insight kids spring 2015
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Check out what’s on at the Royal BC Museum royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/calendar
Don’t miss these events in your community
Afterschool explorAtionDiscover art through recycled materials. Assist local artists,
Richard Wong and Alysha Farling, in the creation of masterpieces for the 4th Annual Creatively United
for the Planet Earth Week Festival.Wednesdays and Thursdays in April | 4 – 5 pm
$5 per kid, must be chaperoned
Astronomy DAyTo celebrate International Astronomy Week, the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria, will host Astronomy Day at the Royal BC Museum. Join us and explore the mysteries of the universe. Learn about the constellations
through planetarium programs; solar telescope viewing to safely see the sun; hands-on activities and presentations.
April 25 | 10 am – 4 pmFree
4th AnnuAl creAtively uniteD for the plAnet eArth Week festivAl
Location: The English Inn – 429 Lampson St, Victoria BCApril 25 and 26
Free
WonDer sunDAy: fielD trippers kick off
As a kick off to our Field Trippers Nature Walk series, join us at Uplands Park to explore the botanical world with Royal BC Museum staff and community members.
April 26 | 1 – 3 pmFree
WonDer sunDAy: eco in AnD out
We connect to the living things around us as we have our 3rd Annual Wonder Sunday Museum.
Free with admission or membership.May 31 | 1 – 3 pm
Free
eArth hourLocation: Everywhere
March 28 | 8:30 – 9:30 pm
eArth DAyLocation: Everywhere
April 22
There should be no monotony
In studying your botany;
It helps to train
And spur the brain--
Unless you haven’t gotany.
It teaches you, does Botany,
To know the plants and spotany,
And learn just why
They live or die--
In case you plant or potany.
You learn, from reading Botany,
Of wooly plants and cottony
That grow on earth,
And what they’re worth,
And why some spots have notany.
You sketch the plants in Botany,
You learn to chart and plotany
Like corn or oats--
You jot down notes,
If you know how to jotany.
Your time, if you’ll allotany,
Will teach you how and what any
Old plant or tree
Can do or be--
And that’s the use of Botany!
Botany
Berton Braley
Science Newsletter
March 9, 1929
let’s create
Create your own poem about your favourite area of study and share it with [email protected]
Tip Don’t feel like you need to fill
the space allotted, try your
hand at a haiku if you’d like!
There are over 7 million artifacts in the Royal BC Museum’s collection. Behind the scenes, scientists, curators
and collection managers conduct research, study their favourite subjects and make new discoveries every
single day. Here’s a list of all the areas of study that happen right here at the Royal BC Museum.
Can you make the correct match? Guess which term is the study of which subject.
Connect the matching definition with the right term:
let’s make a match
Fossils
The behaviour, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals
Birds
Mammals
Insects and Allies
Fish
People and the differences and relationships between them
Reptiles & Amphibians
The study of human history and prehistory
Herpetology = Reptiles & Amphibians | Ichthyology = Fish | Ornithology = Birds | Mammalogy = Mammals | Palaeontology = Fossils | Zoology = The behaviour, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals | Entomology = Insects and Allies |Archaeology = The study of human history and prehistory | Ethnology = People and the differences and relationships between them
Don’t cheat
These are the answers so you can check your work after you’ve made your best guess.
Herpetology
Ethnology
Ichthyology
Ornithology
Mammalogy
Palaeontology
Zoology
Entomology
Archaeology
fun fAct!
Ology means
“to study”
in latin.
Check out some of the most incredible objects of interest in the Royal BC Museum collection.
Visit royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/100
Take a look at the world around you. Take a walk and collect some of your own artifacts that represent that moment in time. Ask your family what they think is ok to take home and what shouldn’t be disturbed or is better left behind.
Did you observe a bird eating a certain type of plant? An abandoned nest that’s interesting? Is there a puddle of water that you’d like to look at through a magnifying glass? Perhaps you’ll notice there are some human artifacts around, signs, trash or lost items?
Maybe there’s something that’s too large or fragile to take home? Take photos or draw a picture of it and you’ll never forget it.
let’s sketch