There were two options.
One was to make binoculars out of toilet paper or paper towel tubes.
Cute.
That's what my son chose.
The second craft was to make a ladybug.
My son chose the binoculars, and what was really cool about decorating those is they had glow-in-the-dark crayons-
Ooh
... that they previewed for my son.
There's a special place inside the aquarium where you can use those later.
So we moved on from that table, and then we went into all of the different content tables.
There was a table about birds and their different calls and recognizing those.
If you have been listening to the podcast, you've heard me recommend the Merlin app to Kayla before, and I still love it, and they were recommending that.
But moreover, they had a video playing where the kids could track how many different types of birds they saw.
So they had pictures on a wipeable laminated sheet, and the kids watched the videos.
And they taught them about how you only count one-So let's say the tufted titmouse, that's the one that we saw a lot on the video we were watching, comes into the screen, so you mark a tally for one, and then it flies away.
And now another tufted titmouse flies back into the screen.
You don't count that as two, because that might be the same one.
Mm-mm.
You only count a second one if now you see two together.
Right.
So they taught us all about how do the scientists count the birds, and then they told us that the same institute that runs that Merlin app actually runs these citizen scientist programs.
So you can go to their website, and you can sign up to be counting birds in your area and reporting them back to Cornell.
I had no idea.
That's cool.
Yeah.
There were two options.
One was to make binoculars out of toilet paper or paper towel tubes.
Cute.
That's what my son chose.
The second craft was to make a ladybug.
My son chose the binoculars, and what was really cool about decorating those is they had glow-in-the-dark crayons-
Ooh
... that they previewed for my son.
There's a special place inside the aquarium where you can use those later.
So we moved on from that table, and then we went into all of the different content tables.
There was a table about birds and their different calls and recognizing those.
If you have been listening to the podcast, you've heard me recommend the Merlin app to Kayla before, and I still love it, and they were recommending that.
But moreover, they had a video playing where the kids could track how many different types of birds they saw.
So they had pictures on a wipeable laminated sheet, and the kids watched the videos.
And they taught them about how you only count one-So let's say the tufted titmouse, that's the one that we saw a lot on the video we were watching, comes into the screen, so you mark a tally for one, and then it flies away.
And now another tufted titmouse flies back into the screen.
You don't count that as two, because that might be the same one.
Mm-mm.
You only count a second one if now you see two together.
Right.
So they taught us all about how do the scientists count the birds, and then they told us that the same institute that runs that Merlin app actually runs these citizen scientist programs.
So you can go to their website, and you can sign up to be counting birds in your area and reporting them back to Cornell.
I had no idea.
That's cool.
Yeah.
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