Vocabulary word of the week: "Paleontologist"

Principe: "We are going to see a paleontologist"
Grandma: "A paleo...  what?"
Principe: "A paleontologist"
Grandma: "What does a paleontologist do?"
Principe: "Digs dinosaur bones and studies them"

One of Papito's friends has been hosting an annual event with various scientists from across the country to share their knowledge about our world and how scientific findings support the historical account of creation in the book of Genesis and other biblical texts.

Our mission was to learn what a "Paleontologist" does before we attending a one hour lecture at the University in town. So, we embraced our mission and had lot's of fun talking about different types of dinosaurs.

Our favorite activity was to create a dinosaur egg with paper mache. We placed twin baby boy and girl dinosaurs inside the balloon and used all of our worksheets of the day to paste them into the balloon with our homemade glue (a mixture of flour and water).

The egg was painted green and we opened it at a lunch that we shared together with the visiting paleontologist. During our lunch we continued learning a lot about fossils dating methods, actual dinosaur eggs, and different types of dinosaurs.

Over the years, we have found experiential learning designs such as this educational endeavor to be one the best methods to explore new concepts and knowledge.

What learning approaches have you found to be the most effective?
Smiles,