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Lucas Miller, the singing zoologist! Science education through music, videos, books and school author visits. Rates for groups 0-125 miles from Austin. Rates for groups 126 miles from Austin. Save 50% with arts grants! Best of Lucas on YouTube. TLA STEAM workshop resources. I’m presenting a workshop at the Texas Library Association Conference and promised to provide some resources for anyone wanting to do more STEM activities in the library. So here goes:. The Show Me Librarian. Program, Target sends top...
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Zoological Curiosity: Looking REALLY closely at a bluebonnet
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. Looking REALLY closely at a bluebonnet. I've been talking (and singing) about bluebonnets quite a bit this spring. I'm trying to learn as much about them as I can so I dissected a couple florets and a bluebonnet pea pod today. Let's take a closer look, shall we? A single bluebonnet has many, individual "florets" like this one. Below the banner petal are two petals clasped toge...
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Zoological Curiosity: How do frogs celebrate Valentine's Day?
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. How do frogs celebrate Valentine's Day? Just as winter ebbs you’ll begin to hear the various belches, peeps, trills, snorts and myriad other sounds of frogs and toads. If you think they all go “ribbit,” then think again. As Florida’s great zoologist and author Archie Carr wrote, “Frogs do for the night what birds do for the day; they give it a voice. Will leave you wiser and, ...
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Zoological Curiosity: December 2012
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. Know THIS Christmas tradition? There was a time when Americans celebrated Christmas with what was called a “side hunt.” Groups of men got together, chose sides. And then marched into the woods to take aim at absolutely any animal that moved. Whichever team returned with the greatest number of pelts and feathers earned bragging rights. Rather than shoot, birds on Christmas day&...
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The Bulging Bookbag: April 2011
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Book reviews and other book-related posts were taking over my blog, The Very Latest Thing, so I created this blog to house those posts. The name comes from the bulging bookbags I haul home from the library, bookstore or book sale to add to my overflowing bookshelves. Thursday, April 28, 2011. Book Review: God’s Generals: The Healing Evangelists by Roberts Liardon. It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour. Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Raffaela’...
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Zoological Curiosity: Science!!!
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. If you love science too, you should really check out :. From WNYC public radio. How do I thee, RadioLab, let me count the ways. It's a blend of artistry, science, music and masterful storytelling so of course I like it! If you're familiar with "This American Life" it's in that ballpark- radio that's exploring new territory and completely enthralling. 2) NPR's Science Friday.
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Zoological Curiosity: Bluebonnets revisited
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. One last look at bluebonnets for the year. My neighbor had a nice stand in their yard now they look like this:. Not such a pretty backdrop for a photo anymore, huh? The pods, green and tender when we last viewed them are now dried out and opening. I haven't witnessed it yet but, apparently, the seeds actually pop out. I got a good shot of a pod that was beginning to open:.
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Zoological Curiosity: Frog-sicles? Antifreeze made from turtle pee?
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. Antifreeze made from turtle pee? Click to see a frozen frog thaw out and spring to life! My college zoology teacher once started off a class by putting what was, by all appearances, a frozen turtle on his lab bench. He had just pulled it out of the freezer, he said, and assured us that it would be active again by the end of our 90-minute class. Many birds, for example, aren't ...
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Zoological Curiosity: Bats? I say "Yahoo!" not "Boo!"
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Thoughts, ideas, images, videos, and miscellaneous ramblings from Lucas Miller, the "singing zoologist! Planning events for kids. Photo by John Abbott, used by permission. Halloween makes me shudder but it’s not the goblins, ghosts, and zombies thumping on my door. It’s the rubber bats on elastic strings with painted-red mouths agape and fangs bared. Nope It’s that I can’t stand the way SOME people use images of bats to creep folks out! That might change your perspective. From southeast Asie, boasts the ...
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