Challenge Number 1 2) What type of algae was produced at this time?
__ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ __
Head to the left entrance of Geology Gems and minerals and take journey
back to when “Our Solar System was Born”
Watch the short movie to fill out the answers:
1) What explodes?
_________________________________________________
2) What does a cloud do?
____________________________________________
3) Something happens fast…what’s happening?
___________________________
4) What “shoots out?”
______________________________________________
5) What do “small bits of dust” do?
___________________________________
Action Section
Now that you’ve seen the film, look around the corner to find…
1- Video Assignment: Amazing Scientific Discovery!
Shoot a video in which one of your teammates acts like an
absolutely amazed scientist talking about the Interstellar Diamond Dust.
The video must include 2 pieces of information:
1) Explain how you got the Interstellar Diamond Dust.
2) Explain what it will help scientists understand now.
You better look & sound AMAZED
2 - Photo Assignment: Take a Group Photo in Front of the
Interstellar Dust…Be sure to point to it!
Challenge Number 2
Head to Early Life and a Land without Life on the first floor.
How many millions of years ago was the Silurian period?
________________________
There is a revolution that started all life. What kind of revolution was it?
The __ __ __ __ __ __ Revolution
1) What was produced when water vapor reacted to sunlight?
__ __ __ __ __ __
3) This algae could produce more __ __ __ __ __ __ through
photo__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
4) These algae helped to make our __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.
Action Section
1) Find the trailblazing plants and take a photo with
your team and this special plant.
2) Shoot a video in which one team member acts like
News Reporter and explains why this plant is
“trailblazing.” You must act like it is Breaking
News!
Challenge Number 3
Head to the section entitled Extinction! The End of an __ __ __
(near the Paleozoic)
How many millions of years ago did this happen? ____________________
What caused the Permian Extinction?
There were vast changes in __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and extreme
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ conditions on land.
What were the landmasses doing?
They were moving __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ to fuse
into __ __ __ __ __ __ ___
Action Section
1) Find the three globes (one on top of the other) and take a
group photo.
2) Shoot a video in which one of you acts like the Nutty
Professor explaining the changes taking place from the top
globe to the bottom globe. What is changing?
 Challenge Number 4
Head to the Mesozoic Era __ __ __ - __ __ million years ago
Find: A new cast goes on with the show
What “seized the chance to take on many new roles”?
__ __ __ __ __ __ and __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Who were the newcomers? __ __ __ __ __ and __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Who now stalked the seas? __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Action Section
1) Take a group photo with the Icthyosaurs!
2) Shoot a short video of one teammate acting like he (or she) is
Michael Phelps explaining how the Icthyosaurs were like
he is today. (start off with “Hi, I’m Michael Phelps”)
Challenge Number 5
Find the Scouts and Settlers in the Late Silurian
You must find out what a Drought (period of no rain) does to
Devonian fish.
When water became foul…these fish could gulp __ __ __ for
__ __ __ __ __ __ because they had __ __ __ __ __.
Lobe-__ __ __ __ __ __ fish were able to do what? ___________________
____________________________________________________________
Action Section
1) Take a group photograph in front of the glass case with the
Devonian Fish.
2) Shoot a video of one of your teammates acting like you a Devonian
Fish. Explain how you have adapted to living with a drought! I
want to see your best fish face!
Challenge Number 6
Is it a Dinosaur or a Non-Dinosaur?
Head near the café and you will find this debate.
Dinosaurs walked with their feet directly __ __ __ __ __ their __ __ __ __
Non-Dinosaurs had sprawling __ __ __ __ __ __ __ and they did two other
activities: 1___________________________ 2______________________
Action Section
1) Take a Group photo in front of your favorite Dinosaur
2) Take a group photo in front of your favorite Non-Dinosaur
3) Shoot a video of one of your acting like the Crocodile Hunter
explaining the differences between dinosaurs and non-dinosaurs.
Be sure to stand in front of a cool example.
Challenge Number 7
As old as Dirt!
Head to the Fossil Lab and watch the volunteers cleaning the fossils.
You may even get lucky and a volunteer may be outside with a fossil cart.
Action Section
1) Take a group photo in front of the Fossil Lab.
2) Shoot a video of one teammate interviewing a volunteer (who is
with the cart) about what they have found while working at the lab.
OR
3) If no one is outside with a cart, shoot a video of one teammate
showing the cool bones in the window and explaining the animal to
which they belong.
 Challenge Number 8
The Rise of the Mammals!
After the Dinosaurs became extinct the mammals ruled the world.
So head to the Hall of Mammals and go to the Evolution Theater to
answer the following clues.
What is the name of our common ancestor in the movie? __ __ __ __ __ __
What do they think killed the dinosaurs? A __ __ __ __ __ __
What animal do they show adapting to its environment?
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
What happens if you fail to adapt? You go __ __ __ __ __ __ __
What are the Mammals three forms of Identification?
1__________________________________________
2__________________________________________
3__________________________________________
Action Section
1) Get a group photo with you sitting with a member of your family
tree…she is sitting in the audience of the theater!
2) Film a video of one of your teammates acting like a science teacher
showing the three forms of identification of mammals. You
must film this at the entrance of the Hall of
Mammals. Find the three displays as you enter
that relate to this.
Challenge Number 9
Walk past the Dinosaurs, past the mammal skeletons and pass the giant
Moose towards the African Voices section to find an are on the Ice Ages!
There are four possible reasons we had ice ages in the past…What are
they?
1) __ __ __ __ __ Changes
2) Solar Radiation __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
3) Atmospheric Filtering from __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ Eruptions
4) C__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ D__ __ __ __
Action Section
1) Take a group photo in front of the tubes of ice…act like you are
cold.
2) Shoot a video in which one of your teammates acts like a scientist
in Antarctica who has been studying ice ages for years and explains
one of the reasons for an ice age.
Challenge Number 10
People finally arrive!
Walk near the rest rooms at the end of the exhibit and you will see the area
that traces the growth of humans.
Action Section
1) Take a group photo in front of the evolutionary “family tree”
2) Shoot a video in which one team member acts like an archeologist
and explains what they have found while digging in this area of the
museum.
Now head to the African Voices section of the Museum and go to the
beginning of the timeline that is down the center of the exhibit.
Where did archeologists find the earliest human ancestors?
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ Gorge.
This is in what country? ______________________________________
Action Steps
1) Take a group photo in front of the artifact found in that gorge.
2) Take a group Photo in front of the African Map pointing to the
country where this gorge is.