On Thursday, our class went to the Jeju Fossil Museum on the Seogwi-po city border, to help us better understand our inquiry unit on discoveries.
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The museum, which was opened in March 2003, has three separate exhibit areas, and displays fossils mainly domestic to Jeju. There is also an outdoor exhibit of silicified wood {had to look this one up!}, and an exhibit upstairs with a collection of foreign fossils. Not to mention a cool life-size Apatosaurus {which I had wrongly been calling a Brontosaurus..oops!}guarding the place.
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We saw lots of fossils:
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We also made our own ammonite {think million-year-old predator squids} soap fossils! We mixed glycerin soap and lemon/lavender fragrance in a vat, and heated it up together. We then poured the hot, melted soap into our ammonite molds. I even got to make one:
The finished product^^
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The museum employees spoke Korean and English to the children. Showing us the many different fossils:
It was a great day!
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Make your own soap "fossils." Neat procedure I found on another blog: http://eisforexplore.blogspot.kr/2012/02/jurassic-amber-fossil-soap.html
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