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Science sweet and rocky

Ever stop to think about the apple you are eating? How about what happens to what dinosaurs leave behind? Attendees of the Kern County Museum's, Aug. 8-12, "Cool Science" day camps know the answers. And the 5-12 year-olds learned much more, too. Let us start with the apple. In volunteer docent Dale Hopwood's "Kitchen Science" class, each of the 5-8 year-olds was given a ripe, delicious red apple. Their task? While eating the apple, they had to write. Eating an apple, it seems, is a science. Across the hall, children in the 9-12 age group were learning about the science of geology. Ismael Sanchez from the Kern County Mineral Society's Mineral Mites Club brought dozens of samples of rocks, minerals and fossils from his collection to share. More
Posted: 8/15/05; 3:02:41 PM | Permalink(#)


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