September 10, 2015

Exploring Nature With Your Child will be held on September 10, 2015 at 6:30 pm at Woodlands Garden, which is located 1.2 miles from the Fernbank Science Center. 

The next class will be held October 17, 2015. 

There will be NO CLASS on 9/17, 9/24, 10/1, 10/8.

Our Tadpole / Froglet

Photo by Damon Young

10/23/14 ENWYC

Photos by Damon Young
 

Golddiggers, Generals, & Tightrope Walkers - August 21, 2014

Remember Bill Witherspoon, our Geologist who came and visited with ENWYC this summer helping us to learn about Georgia’s rocks and geology?

Well, Bill is retiring this month and FSC is having his retirement celebration on Thursday night. FSC will be officially closed to the public for continued maintenance of equipment but will be unofficially open for Bill’s retirement party and you are invited!  

Bill’s talk will be at 7:00, (The 6:00 event is just a staff reception for Bill) but you can come at our usual time of 6:30 if you like and visit the FSC museum area. I will be there and looking for you, so if you want to bring some natural samples in, I will be happy to look at them with you, but please keep them small (no large containers with snakes, turtles, etc.). Then we can all enjoy Bills slideshow at 7:00. We can resume our Thursday evenings of ENWYC on August 28th.

Paleontologist visits ENWYC - 06/26/14

Nan Hubner, FSC Paleontologist, was our special guest tonight.  She talked about fossils and we had a chance to search through some owl pellets.

Photos coming soon.

Recap for 05/22/14

Today's special show and tell included...

• a large female yellowbelly pond slider
• some slugs
• some ants (queen, workers, winged drones, and warrior ants)
• a beetle
• a “frogpole” (an almost frog tadpole)
• an “Ebony Jewelwing”  and one other small Damselfly.

Also, one of the children caught a house centipede in the classroom and we looked at his fangs under the microscope.  Then we went out to the water garden and looked for dragonflies to compare with the damselflies I brought in. We found a green darner dragonfly at the pond. It is called a green darner but the abdomen is actually blue. However, it’s eyes and thorax are green. 

Rock Day With Bill Witherspoon 4/24/14

During class we had several exciting specimens brought in on top of Bill Witherspoon coming in and talking all about rocks!

Barbra brought in a leech that we suspect got into her pond via bird legs, perhaps a great blue heron that is a common visitor to her house, or via turtles. She also brought in quite a sizeable crawfish. Jesse brought in what Mr. Al thought was a banded water snake. Ian brought in a house centipede.

Bill had a really fun activity that taught us about the most common rocks you might find around out region. He also took us on a rock walk outside to show us the different exhibits that we often walk past on the way into ENWYC. Check out the pictures!!

Looking at the leech and crawfish. 

More examination.

Talking about how to crawfish propel themselves through the water.  

Looking at the house centipede. 

Jesse and his water snake.

An up close look. 

From left to right, top then bottom row: granite, gneiss, quartz, amphibolite, and schist.

Bill talking about his book, "Roadside Ecology of Georgia."

Taking a rock tour outside!