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The High School for Teaching and Professions
Director, Center for School/College Collaboratives, Lehman College, Dr.
Anne Rothstein This Program is a collaboration between HSTP and Lehman College. It takes place on the Lehman College campus. Its purpose is to prepare incoming 9th graders for high school– academically and socially. Students get to meet their teachers, students from other grades, and other members of the incoming class while having fun, earning high-school credit, and preparing for the Living Environment Regents exam. Funded by New Visions for Public Schools and NYS 21st Century Learning Communities |
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that something like that ever roamed the earth. During my dinosaur visit there
were these computers that showed how the dinosaur would have lived today. I
heard what a dinosaur roar would sound like. They were scary and really loud. I
felt as if my eardrums were going to burst. After this, I visited another part
of the exhibit, where I was able to touch a dinosaur skull that was 65 million
years old. This skull was like rock. While the skull was lying on the ground,
minerals from rocks were transferred into it, thus making the skull extremely
hard. I touched a dinosaur egg, which was 75 million years old, even older than
the skull! There was a hole in the egg that clearly indicated that this was
where the baby dinosaur exited. The whole trip to the museum was great because I
was able to experience things that I never thought I would be able to
experience. I hope I can return to the museum."
exhibit.
The dinosaurs looked like older versions of animals you see today. One dinosaur
had a flat face and beak, just like a platypus. I also saw a dinosaur that was
climbing a tree, and it reminded me so much of a monkey. Then I saw one attached
to the ceiling that reminded me of a swordfish. I also saw a dinosaur that put
me in mind of a human. It reminded me of a human because it had all the bones of
a human. It had the ribs, the spine, and the femur, but the truth is that it was
the ancestor of a sloth. I also saw a dinosaur that reminded me of a turtle.
While at the museum, I saw a lot of interesting things. I would love to take
another trip back to that museum because you can learn a lot about the evolution
of animals, and more."
"My
favorite exhibit was the house of the Native Americans. There we learned how
they made fire. They had to use a long stick that was tied to a string. It was a
very thick string and to make the fire, you had to move the stick up and down.
The feeling of the stick moving up and down felt heavy. I found it really
difficult to maintain the flow of the string. Also, we learned how they trained
the younger Indians how to hunt, in the form of a game. The goal of the game was
to throw a big two-sided bag to the other person. It sounds easy, but then you
had to catch it with a huge spear-like stick. The bag was hard to throw, and
every time it would drop the sound was a loud thump. There was music playing in
the background, music in the form of beats. They were like huge drums banging
back and forth; it was nice, I even tried to dance to the music, but I never
could find the flow of the beat. "
