- [Narrator] This module is sponsored by the Children's
Services Council of Broward County.
(upbeat western music)
- We are here today at the Fort Lauderdale
Museum of Discovery and Science to find out about dinosaurs!
(man growls)
What do you hear?
- [Boy] Triceratops.
- [Penny] You do?
I hear a dinosaur.
(man growls)
(Penny gasps)
What's that?
- [Boy] Triceratops.
- Actually guys, it's me.
My name's Dan and I'm gonna be taking you
around the museum today to teach you all about dinosaurs.
- Hi, Dan, I'm Penny and these are the Kid Vision
VPK kids.
Hi.
- Hey guys, welcome to the museum.
Today we're gonna learn all about dinosaurs
throughout our whole center.
Now first thing I want you guys to tell me,
what's the biggest difference between us and dinosaurs?
What do you think?
- We're small and dinosaurs are big.
- That's absolutely perfect.
I want you guys to try to get on all fours for me
and just to see how they are gonna move across the land.
- Good and look, that dinosaur is so big,
he is the biggest and then your spine
makes you a nice big dinosaur.
And here we have a nice dinosaur too.
So we have big, bigger and the biggest one is the dinosaur.
- They are a little bit bigger.
Are their bones gonna be smaller than ours?
- [Boy And Girl] No.
- [Dan] No, what are they gonna be?
- Big. - They're not only
gonna be big, they're gonna be,
huge! - Humungous.
- Absolutely.
Here were are at the triceratops skull.
Look at how huge it is.
The horn alone is the length of your entire body.
Now let's go checkout what's inside their mouth
inside a T-Rex's jaw.
Whoa, look at how big this mouth is!
(boy growls)
And look at how big its teeth are!
(boy growls) - Let's see your teeth.
But I think these guys are just a little bit bigger.
Let's check it out.
(boy growls) That's about seven
inches long and that's about, almost the cover
of your whole face. (boy growls)
- What if I take this tooth and put it in your mouth?
Whoa, it would take your whole head!
- Wow.
So these guys had to have bigger teeth because number one,
they ate bigger objects, like the dinosaurs
that we just saw.
Tho guys were herbivores so they ate grasses.
- [Girl] This one eats me.
- So that's why their teeth need to not only
be so big, but really sharp too.
We are in the Dinosaur Lab and today,
we're going to learn how paleontologists,
or dinosaur doctors, find bones.
- [Girl] And they put them together.
- And they put them together,
absolutely. - Then they build it.
- And then they build it.
So you guys just described the whole process
that paleontologists go through
when they're searching for bones.
And what happens when they rebuild it?
What do we get to look at?
- The real them.
- The real. - Then we get to look
at the real size of the dinosaur, right?
- [Penny] The skeleton.
- Where do paleontologists look for dinosaur bones?
- In the sand. - In the sand.
- Absolutely, in the sands and in the ground.
And sometimes the ground is gonna have leaves,
it's gonna have rocks and it's gonna have
all sorts of things that you're gonna have to sort through.
So we have some tools over here that I'm gonna
show you guys and you guys are gonna
become paleontologists for a day.
How does that sound?
- Great. - Great.
- When we go into our sand, guys,
we are going to pick up a big scoop of dinosaur material,
and then we're gonna shimmy it out just like that, okay?
So you guys can go and try that.
Once you find some bones, you can take them out,
and put them on your excavation tray.
And then the way we clean those bones,
is to take our brush and gently touch any sand
that comes off, that way the bones stay intact.
- So look at that, you're being paleontologists.
The only way people know about dinosaurs
is to find fossils because there's no dinosaurs
that are alive.
They have to find them buried in the ground.
- [Dan] You found some bones?
- I found a lot.
- [Penny] You did, shake it to let the sand down.
- [Boy] Well the sand is down.
- [Penny] There you go.
- [Boy] I found the grass.
- [Penny] And do you wanna put the bones together
a little bit?
Look, let's see if we can make a skeleton.
We have four legs, right?
- [Boy] One, two, three, four.
- Those are his legs.
Oh look, now he's gonna make his spine.
Remember we saw the spine?
Oh here's some teeth.
His mouth is full of teeth.
Look at that, we made a dinosaur!
(laughter)
Terrific, now let's go find out how dinosaurs move.
Where are we now?
- [Dan] Penny, right now we're upstairs
in our Dinosaurs in Motion exhibit here at the museum.
Artist John Payne used fossils,
drawings of dinosaurs and his wild imagination
to bring these guys back to life today.
So we're gonna go around and checkout how big they are,
and even see how they moved.
- [Penny] Wow, where do we start?
- [Dan] We're actually gonna checkout this big guy
right behind you.
That's our triceratops.
This guy is so big, he measures about 30 feet long,
Penny and he can be 10 foot tall,
and his head is about one-third the size of his body.
- What shapes do you see?
- [Girl] Triangles.
- He collected different materials to build a sculpture.
What are those called that are around the dinosaur?
- [Boy] Bones?
- They're bones, he made them to look like bones.
If you feel your ribs, can you feel your ribs?
Those are the ribs that are in that dinosaur.
What dinosaur do we look at next?
- Next we're gonna checkout this guy over here.
- [Penny] Wow, look at that guy.
Do you know the name of this dinosaur?
- Ankylosaurus.
- [Penny] Ankylosaurus.
Tell us about this dinosaur.
- Well Penny, this is one of our spiny-back dinosaurs.
And at this stage in the artist development,
he was starting to add movement to each of the objects.
So when you guys get out of bed in the morning,
does your bed move?
- Yes.
- Yeah, that's because there are springs inside,
and that's what the artist used to simulate movement
in the dinosaurs he created.
- I see the springs around his neck,
so he must've wanted the neck to move.
- Yup, when he put the spring in the neck,
that simulates movement like our spinal cords actually.
- And I see a spring in his mouth.
- Yup, he has a spring in the mouth because
that's used to simulate action in the jaw
because they chewed.
- [Penny] What shape are those things that are on the top?
- [Boy] Cones.
- [Penny] They're like cones.
- For the dinosaur he would, actually everything on them
is used for a purpose.
So those right there, because this guy is an herbivore,
which means he eats plants, that's actually a form
of protection on top of the dinosaur.
Next, we're gonna checkout the biggest baddy
of the dinosaur family, guys.
- [Penny] Yeah, what is that dinosaur?
- [Boy] The T-Rex!
- [Penny] The T-Rex, let's go.
- Awesome, let's go.
Alright guys, well now we're on our last dinosaur,
which is a Tyrannosaurus rex,
and this one can actually move.
Press all the way down.
And as his mouth has that push--
- All the way down. - The way down.
And then what's opening up? - When you press down.
- [Dan] His mouth is opening really, really wide, right?
Look how big his mouth opens. - These are dinosaur puppets.
Let's go look at another one.
Here we go.
Good job.
- [Boy] That one isn't speaking.
(upbeat music)
- Thank you for coming.
I'm so glad you were able to enjoy our museum today.
- We had a great time.
- So good to hear. - Thank you.
- Thank you. - Oh, you're welcome.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
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