Living Museum Trip

Earlier this week, we traveled to the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News, Virginia. We (mostly) enjoyed an interactive lesson called Snakes Alive! and explored the museum's exhibits. The museum is home to 250 species of animals found in Virginia and the exhibits showcase all of our state's regions and habitats.

Beavers! Check out those webbed back legs and the tail details.

Some of my group checking out the beavers

Red Wolf

Bald Eagle

A King Snake in our interactive lesson. King snakes are able to eat venomous snakes as large as they are!

A snake egg!

A snake skin. If you look closely, you can see where the eyes and mouth were. 

Milk Snake

Bioluminescent jelly fish

Shrimp

Three snakes sitting all on top of each other

My group inside a log :)

Fossils are under us no matter where we are!

You can tell how many times a rattle snake has shed its skin by counting the number of rattles it has. How many times has this snake shed?

In the Cypress Swamp exhibit. We saw elements of Virginia's endangered wetlands including cypress and tupelo tree trunks, an alligator, fish, and turtles. 

A turtle swimming in the Noland Chesapeake Bay aquarium

I don't have pictures with other students currently, but if you have some, please send them my way and I will add them to the post! We had a great time.