Science Chat Specials 2024-2025 Series

Camels!

CAMELS!

Come on a journey through the ancient Savanna, right in your backyard! Join us to learn about the ancient camels that once roamed the Great Plains, and their modern cousins from the Lincoln Children’s Zoo.

PROGRAM DURATION

Thursday, March 27, 2025
45 minutes
Programs are held at 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. CT on each noted day.

Audience

Grades K-5

SPECIAL EXPERT GUESTS:
  • UNSM Vertebrate Paleontological Team
  • Special guests from the Lincoln Children’s Zoo
STANDARDS SUPPORTED
  • SC.K.7 Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment
  • SC.1.6.2 Gather, analyze, and communicate evidence to show the relationship between structure and function in living things.
  • SC.2.7 Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
  • SC.3.7.2.B Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and environments in which they lived long ago.
  • SC.4.6.3 Gather and analyze data to communicate an understanding of structure, function, and information processing of living things.
  • SC.5.13.4 Gather and analyze data to communicate understanding of Earth’s systems.
COST

Free to Nebraska schools.
$125 outside of Nebraska.

Science Chat Specials are free of charge to Nebraska schools thanks to generous gifts from the Rogers Foundation, and Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum.