Understanding Utah's Natural History...(3-15-08)

A couple of weeks ago, the Den took a field trip to the Utah Museum of Natural History to learn about Utah's rich and diverse...um....natural history.

It was a great time .
The guys got to play with a bunch of hands-on exhibits, look at a ton of old bones, rocks and bugs and even feed the dino!

You know, I think they even learned a thing or two.

Here's the gang, mugging with the donation dino. They got a big kick out of the garbled recording it gave when we tossed in a few coins.







In the geology hall, the Cubs learned about radioactivity and how this geiger counter was used to test potency.







Inside the Romney mine exhibit, the fellas got a taste of how hard it would be to work as a miner.







The special exhibit on display was called "America's Wildest Places."
That's where they learned that they could cram five Cubs into a Canadian Goose decoy. (Six, if their small.)






In the earthquake section, the boys learned a little about plate tectonics and how a seismograph works.







I don't know why, but old bones are always a hit with kids. Here's our ADL M.F., schooling the boys on the ancient megafauna of the US.







At the Range Creek exhibit, the boys learned about the prehistoric people that lived in Utah.







Yeah, the trip was a big hit.
And we were even able to do it without misbehaving or monkeying around.











Well....almost.