Spring 2015

What’s INSight

Check out what’s on at the Royal BC Museum royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/calendar

Don’t miss these events in your community

Afterschool explorAtionDiscover art through recycled materials. Assist local artists,

Richard Wong and Alysha Farling, in the creation of masterpieces for the 4th Annual Creatively United

for the Planet Earth Week Festival.Wednesdays and Thursdays in April | 4 – 5 pm

$5 per kid, must be chaperoned

Astronomy DAyTo celebrate International Astronomy Week, the Royal

Astronomical Society of Canada, Victoria, will host Astronomy Day at the Royal BC Museum. Join us and explore the mysteries of the universe. Learn about the constellations

through planetarium programs; solar telescope viewing to safely see the sun; hands-on activities and presentations.

April 25 | 10 am – 4 pmFree

4th AnnuAl creAtively uniteD for the plAnet eArth Week festivAl

Location: The English Inn – 429 Lampson St, Victoria BCApril 25 and 26

Free

WonDer sunDAy: fielD trippers kick off

As a kick off to our Field Trippers Nature Walk series, join us at Uplands Park to explore the botanical world with Royal BC Museum staff and community members.

April 26 | 1 – 3 pmFree

WonDer sunDAy: eco in AnD out

We connect to the living things around us as we have our 3rd Annual Wonder Sunday Museum.

Free with admission or membership.May 31 | 1 – 3 pm

Free

eArth hourLocation: Everywhere

March 28 | 8:30 – 9:30 pm

eArth DAyLocation: Everywhere

April 22

There should be no monotony

In studying your botany;

It helps to train

And spur the brain--

Unless you haven’t gotany.

It teaches you, does Botany,

To know the plants and spotany,

And learn just why

They live or die--

In case you plant or potany.

You learn, from reading Botany,

Of wooly plants and cottony

That grow on earth,

And what they’re worth,

And why some spots have notany.

You sketch the plants in Botany,

You learn to chart and plotany

Like corn or oats--

You jot down notes,

If you know how to jotany.

Your time, if you’ll allotany,

Will teach you how and what any

Old plant or tree

Can do or be--

And that’s the use of Botany!

Botany

Berton Braley

Science Newsletter

March 9, 1929

let’s create

Create your own poem about your favourite area of study and share it with us!membership@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca

Tip Don’t feel like you need to fill

the space allotted, try your

hand at a haiku if you’d like!

There are over 7 million artifacts in the Royal BC Museum’s collection. Behind the scenes, scientists, curators

and collection managers conduct research, study their favourite subjects and make new discoveries every

single day. Here’s a list of all the areas of study that happen right here at the Royal BC Museum.

Can you make the correct match? Guess which term is the study of which subject.

Connect the matching definition with the right term:

let’s make a match

Fossils

The behaviour, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals

Birds

Mammals

Insects and Allies

Fish

People and the differences and relationships between them

Reptiles & Amphibians

The study of human history and prehistory

Herpetology = Reptiles & Amphibians | Ichthyology = Fish | Ornithology = Birds | Mammalogy = Mammals | Palaeontology = Fossils | Zoology = The behaviour, structure, physiology, classification and distribution of animals | Entomology = Insects and Allies |Archaeology = The study of human history and prehistory | Ethnology = People and the differences and relationships between them

Don’t cheat

These are the answers so you can check your work after you’ve made your best guess.

Herpetology

Ethnology

Ichthyology

Ornithology

Mammalogy

Palaeontology

Zoology

Entomology

Archaeology

fun fAct!

Ology means

“to study”

in latin.

Check out some of the most incredible objects of interest in the Royal BC Museum collection.

Visit royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/100

Take a look at the world around you. Take a walk and collect some of your own artifacts that represent that moment in time. Ask your family what they think is ok to take home and what shouldn’t be disturbed or is better left behind.

Did you observe a bird eating a certain type of plant? An abandoned nest that’s interesting? Is there a puddle of water that you’d like to look at through a magnifying glass? Perhaps you’ll notice there are some human artifacts around, signs, trash or lost items?

Maybe there’s something that’s too large or fragile to take home? Take photos or draw a picture of it and you’ll never forget it.

let’s sketch