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By Denae Ayala<\/p>\n
On Friday, April, 7, Taft College science students had the opportunity to\u00a0visit the Natural History Museum of Los\u00a0Angeles County. Both students and professors were on the bus by 8 a.m., ready for the field trip.<\/p>\n
The trip included students from Professor Mays’ earth science class, Professor Golling’s biology class, and others.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Museum, located in\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0just off of the Harbor Freeway and next to the University Southern California\u00a0 campus, is the largest natural and historical museum in the western United States. It\u00a0protects over 35 million\u00a0specimens, dating back 4.5 billion years.<\/p>\n
The Museum is a resource for Southern California teachers. The Museum operators are an\u00a0authority\u00a0on the “big picture”\u00a0of the planet, the natural and<\/em> the cultural world and\u00a0the Museum\u00a0also tracks the Earth’s biodiversity.<\/p>\n Arriving at around 10:30, the\u00a0professors handed out worksheets with questions to answer about the exhibits. For the earth science students each worksheet had\u00a0nine questions on them.<\/p>\n For the next\u00a0four hours, the exhibits that were visited were the African Mammal Hall, North American Mammal Hall, Gen and Mineral Hall, Hixon Gem Vault, Age of Mammals Exhibit and Dinosaur Hall.<\/p>\n In the African Mammal Hall you are facing animals that were first discovered in the early 20th\u00a0century. The mammals you come across that are most popular when visiting this hall are the Arabian Oryx, savanna elephant, spotted hyena, okapi, hippopotamus, and a Guereza.<\/p>\n Have you encountered a polar bear before? In the North American Mammal Hall you got to see mammals that were found over 75 years ago.\u00a0 The five most popular mammals included in this hall were a bison, moose, jaguar, polar bear, and a pronghorn antelope.<\/p>\n The Gem and Mineral Hall displays more than 2,000 spectacular specimens within two large galleries that comprise what is considered to be one of the finest exhibits of gems, metals\u00a0and minerals in the world. From gold to silver the hall allows you to not only feel these items\u00a0but learn about them as well.<\/p>\n Inside of the Hixon Gem Vault is where you come across the diamonds, sapphires, and rubies. Did you know Benitoite is the beautiful blue state gemstone of California?<\/p>\n Age of Mammals exhibit tells an evolutionary story that spans 65 million years. The two-story gallery gives out information about mammals. From the physical traits of\u00a0 a mammal, to the classification, and the humans encountering with mammals.<\/p>\n The final exhibit that was visited was the Dinosaur Hall. Here you will get up close and personal with a T-rex, triceratops, and a stegosaurus, plus many more. The 14,000-square-foot dinosaur hall\u00a0\u00a0will\u00a0rival the world\u2019s leading dinosaur halls for the number of individual fossils displayed, the size and spectacular character of the major mounts.<\/p>\n You can visit the Museum anytime from 9:30 a.m. to\u00a04:30 p.m. General admission is $27 with a parking fee of $12.<\/p>\n By Denae Ayala On Friday, April, 7, Taft College science students had the opportunity to\u00a0visit the Natural History Museum of Los\u00a0Angeles County. Both students and professors were on the bus by 8 a.m., ready for the field trip. The trip included students from Professor Mays’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22649,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22592\/revisions\/22649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/04\/LAC-Museum-of-NHist.jpg\")
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