A Day with the Dinos

By Lindsay Hawthorne

It is not every day Woodland students get to look up and see real dinosaur skeletons. The AP Bio, AP Environmental, Marine Bio and Astronomy classes got to experience this and much more on Monday January 10 at the Natural History Museum in NYC.

The American Museum of Natural History is one of the largest museums in the world, and it is located across the street from Central Park in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Each class went to this vast home of more than 46 different exhibition halls to learn something different pertaining to their class. The AP Bio students, for example, were supposed to be looking for exhibits related to evolution.

The students were free to travel in their own small groups and see what interested them most.
“I learned a lot about the histories of the different cultures around the world and what animals lived in each country,” said AP Bio Student Rhiannon Ovchar.

“There were so many things to read and look at, it was so much to take in!” added Ovchar.

There are so many exhibits at this museum that it would be impossible to see them all on a single visit. They have enormous halls with dinosaurs, meteorites, aquatic life and more.
“In my opinion, the coolest exhibit was the under the sea one, with the life-size blue whale!” added Ovchar.
This museum has a butterfly exhibit, an IMAX theater, halls full of taxidermy animals, such as the hall of “American mammals”, also, of course, the dinosaurs, and much, much  more.