Rockin' Adventures:
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Geology & History of Planet Earth:  Imagine your arm as a time line.  The planet began about the shoulder, at the elbow, the dinosaur came, and went away about the wrist.  Pinch your fingernail; this is the period of time, in relationship to the over all comparison, that man occupies the earth.
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Selinite,  Calcite  Nodules  Oklahoma aka:  Rattle  Snake  Eggs
To engage children in loving Earth Sciences, I have always spent many hours creating adventures to engage the children.  I present the Rattle Snake Eggs with a piece of sand paper, and instructions to keep their specimen wet while polishing.  However, before they ever get to handle the specimen itself, I come into the class room with a basket of the Rattle Snake Eggs.  I don't know how many people as children have played with the rubber band , with a button attached, is stretched between a fork of wire.  Sure you all remember.  When you wind up the button, and place in in envelope, or any container holding the button in place, until the unknowing victim releases the pressure, and rtttttttttt the unspinning tension on the button makes it sound like a rattle snake. 

So here we have innocent little children observing this basket, where once upon a table, we can look inside, and laying on top is a snake skin.  I say "Oh my, looks like one has hatched.  Look on the floor".  While their little eyes are looking for the baby snake, I toss a snake printed silk scarf at their feet.  Laughter, hollars, and screams erupt.  Now we pass the basket around, and of course as they remove the little stone rattle snake eggs, the rubber band rattlers rtttttttt, and all have very much fun.

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Sharing Rock Specimens with Tristan Wentling Class at Prairie Park Elementary in Lawrence Kansas.
Always a favorite is Halite, or salt specimens.  These are from Stratica  Salt Museum in Salina, Kansas.
Salt 250 million year old water, and air bubble inside.  It is told a scientists in Florida extracted life form from a specimen, a couple of years ago.
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 My lovely dog Charlie Babe - with his Christmas Bone.
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Honey Bees share this old house with me.  In 2018 they swarmed in a very unusual way. 
The ohm was loud, attention alerting.  Bee Swarm 30 minutes, Bee Swarm 1 hour.

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Grandson Tristan, aka Boy, and Grandma Debby, aka Toy, play together often.  These are our 2018 adventures at the Kansas Air Museum in Wichita.  We always spend several hours at the museum.  We are in the Tower.  The flight simulator, always demands an hour or more play.  The museum is filled with actual airplane sections, like the Cockpit.  The Museum is located in the original airport tower in Wichita.  Since he was two, Tristan has launched paper airplanes from the balcony.  Art on open paper airplane, Art on closed paper airplane.  Paper airplane in flight, gliding, still flying.