Cold-Blooded Creatures

What a wonderful day! Today was our big field trip to UMASS to visit Al Richmond, a professor in the biology department. Our theme of the day was cold-blooded creatures, so we learned all about reptiles and amphibians and the adaptations that help them survive.

 

For our outside game we played none other than Lizard Tails! Then we came inside and shared home projects. Some people brought in paper airplanes they made, others brought in feathers they found – all related to flight.

 

We discussed the reptiles and amphibians we know about, and our password – herpetology (the study of reptiles and amphibians). Then it was time for snack, and then, our bus ride to UMASS!

 

 We all sat at the desks in Al’s classroom and he brought out live herps such as... 

 Cane Toad

 Corn Snake (albino)

 Corn Snake (no black pigment) 

 Sissalids (the other amphibian besides frogs, toads and salamanders!)

 Turtle Shell/Skeleton

 Leopard Gecko

 Corn Snake (with all pigment)

 More Corn Snakes

 Milk Snakes

 Argentine Boa

 Alligator

 Reticulated Python - 17 feet long!)

Then we went to the Campus Pond and had lunch. And we fed the ducks!

 

Then we came back for journal time and a game of frogs and flies!