Excellent
Presentation at the Dighton Rock Museum!
Camouflage
show for Children
By Elsie Goldstein, Volunteer
Educator
On Sunday, July 11th,
2010, in the early afternoon, on a perfect day, at the Dighton Rock
Museum entrance, it was a pleasure to present my show on
Camouflage to various groups of children and their parents, on the
simplest techniques of CAMOUFLAGE for animal to match the
“background” of its surroundings.
The ultimate goal of camouflage is to
HIDE from other animals!
It was a beautiful summer’s day at the
Dighton Rock State Park last Sunday afternoon. I had the pleasure of
presenting the” Growing Up Wild “program on Animal Camouflage for
children 3 years old and up. As the children and their parents
gathered under a tent near the shoreline of the Taunton River and
near the entrance to the Dighton Rock Museum, they had plenty of
visual examples to look at on Animal Camouflage. The kids got to
answer questions and learn about all the different ways animals have
been created to hide themselves in their environment, and that both
predators and prey use “camouflage”.
We played a game using colored pipe cleaners as “worms”. I hid
the worms on the ground and the kids pretended that they were birds
that needed to find as many worms as possible before I blew my
whistle. We then went back on the blankets and counted out each of
the different colored worms. We learned that it was easier to find
the colored “worms” that didn’t blend into the ground
cover.
Our next game was hiding two cut out rabbit pictures that
each child colored. The children were asked to color one in brown
and the other in any color or design. Then they took turns hiding
the rabbits and once they were all hid, the group had to find them
all in the park. We learn that it was harder to find the brown
rabbits because they blended in with the park’s surroundings.
We all joined in singing the “Camouflage”
song and snack treats were given to each child after they explained
something that they had learned. Everyone had something to share
about Animal Camouflage and they had a lot of fun learning something
new.
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Photos of
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Elsie Goldstein under the tent with the
first group
of children on the left bank of the Taunton River |
Poster with the general aspect of the
various animals
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Elsie in action |
The audience: parents and the kids. |
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Elsie with the tiger |
Elsie all excited on the beautiful setting of the park near by
the Taunton River....Everyone is attentive!
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Elsie is going to hide "worms" for the kids to find |
Different group of parents
and kids
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Poster showing the various
animals that were taught to the kids
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Elsie concentrating in her lecture
and relating very well with kids
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Our thank you note:
Our Organization "The Friends of
Dighton Rock Museum, Inc" is most grateful to Ms. Elsie
Goldstein for her excellent presentation. She really knows how to
relate to kids. Wonderful!
We want to thank also
our Secretary Nancy Possinger, John Possinger, (Board of Director)
and the Volunteer
docents Carole Johnson and Diane Ennis.
(a) Manuel Luciano da Silva,
President of the Friends
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