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to HMNS

A Family Guide

Created in part with a generous contributionfrom the Junior League of Houston, Inc.

Use the questions below to talk to your friends and family about your day at HMNS.

Pack your birthday full of brain power and celebrate with HMNS! We’ll handle all the party planning, from decorations to entertainment and more, so you can have all the fun. Visit hmns.org/birthdays to start your party planning!

We open at 8 a.m. just for our members on the Second Saturday of every month. Get an early peek at your favorite dinosaurs, mummies, and more! Visit hmns.org/member for more information.

Fill in the name of each object in its numbered space in the grid.

Can you find these objects throughout the museum during your visit?

Reveal some of the residentsof our Cockrell Butterfly Center! Can you identify them?

1. If you started your own collection, what would you collect and why?

2. If you created an exhibit, what would it be about? Why did you choose that topic?

3. What is one thing you would like to learn more about after our visit today?

4. What would you like to see during our next visit?

5. If you could ask one of the museum’s objects a question, which object would you talk to and what would you ask it?

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RAVOETGO _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BRYRHOCDNOA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _TONEPLCISACTTE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _WBEEARENL _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LIPPEENI _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Have a budding paleontologist, biologist, explorer, or astronaut in your life?

Then join the HMNS family!An HMNS membership means you can investigate dinosaurs, mummies, the stars, and butterflies all year long. Spark your learner’s curiosity with 17 permanent exhibit halls, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, Burke Baker Planetarium, and Wortham Giant Screen Theatre. It’s a lot to travel from the Cretaceous to ancient Egypt to a Costa Rican rainforest in one day, so don’t! A membership means you can explore new adventures every week.

There’s always something new to see at your HMNS.Need more adventure in your life? Don’t forget to join us for members-only events like Second Saturdays, special exhibition preview weekends, and World Trekkers. Visit hmns.org/member to become a part of the HMNS family today!

Continue the learning at home!

Second Saturdaysand Family Membership

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Find all the words about ancient Egypt. Can you find these words throughout the hall, too?

Use the numbered letters from your answers below to spell out the name of the very first object in the Museum’s collection!Once you solve it, try to find it in the the Cabinet of Curiosities exhibit!

Our Morian Hall of Paleontology is laid out chronologically, which means it is arranged according to time from the oldest fossils to the youngest. As you walk into the hall, start your prehistoric safari by turning left. Write down in what order you see the fossils below from 1 to 5 as you move through the exhibit.

Our Wiess Energy Hall teaches us about different forms of energy. We use energy every day to do things like turn on the lights, eat breakfast, and ride a bike. See if you can unscramble the energy-related words. Look for these words around the hall!

Answers: ENERGY, DRILL, OIL, POWER, SOLAR, GEOVATOR, HYDROCARBON, PLATE TECTONICS, RENEWABLE, PIPELINE

Answers: 1. PYRITE 2. ZEBRA 3. GEOVATOR 4. ASTRONAUT 5. GLOBE 6. BISON 7. TRICERATOPS 8. TOTEM POLE 9. BUTTERFLY

Answers:1. Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)2. Lois the Corpse Flower3. Giant Long-legged Katydid (Arachnacris corporalis)

Answers: 1. RIO GRANDE DRY FOREST, 2. ROSEATE SPOONBILL, 3. OKAPI, 4. RHINO, 5. NAUTILUS, 6. PURPLE, 7. CUBEMystery Object: LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE

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1. What biome in the Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife has a nine-banded armadillo and a horned lizard? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2. What bird, featured in the Hamman Hall of Coastal Ecology, has a green odd-shaped bill and pink feathers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3. In our Frensley/Graham Hall of African Wildlife, what animal besides the zebra has striped legs? _ _ _ _ _

4. What is the shortened name of the gray African animal with a horn located above the fireplace in Cabinet of Curiosities? _ _ _ _ _

5. What is the name of the modern-day relative of the ammonite fossil that looks like this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

6. What color is an amethyst geode? _ _ _ _ _ _

7. What shape does pyrite form? _ _ _ _

Where can you find scientists, spies, wizards, engineers, chefs, world travelers, and crime scene investigators? Why, Summer Camps at HMNS, of course! A summer at the Museum means you can be a coder one week and a veterinarian the next. At HMNS, you can dig into the earth, fly off to the stars, or trek through the rainforest.

Spend your summer at HMNS, where dinos emerge from clay and physics is as easy as blowing bubbles! Visit hmns.org/summercamp to start your summer explorations.

summer camps at HMNS

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to HMNS

A Family Guide

Created in part with a generous contributionfrom the Junior League of Houston, Inc.

Use the questions below to talk to your friends and family about your day at HMNS.

Pack your birthday full of brain power and celebrate with HMNS! We’ll handle all the party planning, from decorations to entertainment and more, so you can have all the fun. Visit hmns.org/birthdays to start your party planning!

We open at 8 a.m. just for our members on the Second Saturday of every month. Get an early peek at your favorite dinosaurs, mummies, and more! Visit hmns.org/member for more information.

Fill in the name of each object in its numbered space in the grid.

Can you find these objects throughout the museum during your visit?

Reveal some of the residentsof our Cockrell Butterfly Center! Can you identify them?

1. If you started your own collection, what would you collect and why?

2. If you created an exhibit, what would it be about? Why did you choose that topic?

3. What is one thing you would like to learn more about after our visit today?

4. What would you like to see during our next visit?

5. If you could ask one of the museum’s objects a question, which object would you talk to and what would you ask it?

MUMMYCLEOPATRAPAPYRUSNILESCARABANKHPYRAMIDCARTOUCHEPHARAOHNEFERTITISARCOPHAGUSHIEROGLYPH

GYRNEE _ _ _ _ _ _LILRD _ _ _ _ _ LOI _ _ _WREPO _ _ _ _ _LASOR _ _ _ _ _

RAVOETGO _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BRYRHOCDNOA _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _TONEPLCISACTTE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _WBEEARENL _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ LIPPEENI _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Have a budding paleontologist, biologist, explorer, or astronaut in your life?

Then join the HMNS family!An HMNS membership means you can investigate dinosaurs, mummies, the stars, and butterflies all year long. Spark your learner’s curiosity with 17 permanent exhibit halls, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, Burke Baker Planetarium, and Wortham Giant Screen Theatre. It’s a lot to travel from the Cretaceous to ancient Egypt to a Costa Rican rainforest in one day, so don’t! A membership means you can explore new adventures every week.

There’s always something new to see at your HMNS.Need more adventure in your life? Don’t forget to join us for members-only events like Second Saturdays, special exhibition preview weekends, and World Trekkers. Visit hmns.org/member to become a part of the HMNS family today!

Continue the learning at home!

Second Saturdaysand Family Membership

solve the puzzle

downacross

Connect the dots

wordsearch

word scramble

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oldest to youngest

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Find all the words about ancient Egypt. Can you find these words throughout the hall, too?

Use the numbered letters from your answers below to spell out the name of the very first object in the Museum’s collection!Once you solve it, try to find it in the the Cabinet of Curiosities exhibit!

Our Morian Hall of Paleontology is laid out chronologically, which means it is arranged according to time from the oldest fossils to the youngest. As you walk into the hall, start your prehistoric safari by turning left. Write down in what order you see the fossils below from 1 to 5 as you move through the exhibit.

Our Wiess Energy Hall teaches us about different forms of energy. We use energy every day to do things like turn on the lights, eat breakfast, and ride a bike. See if you can unscramble the energy-related words. Look for these words around the hall!

Answers: ENERGY, DRILL, OIL, POWER, SOLAR, GEOVATOR, HYDROCARBON, PLATE TECTONICS, RENEWABLE, PIPELINE

Answers: 1. PYRITE 2. ZEBRA 3. GEOVATOR 4. ASTRONAUT 5. GLOBE 6. BISON 7. TRICERATOPS 8. TOTEM POLE 9. BUTTERFLY

Answers:1. Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)2. Lois the Corpse Flower3. Giant Long-legged Katydid (Arachnacris corporalis)

Answers: 1. RIO GRANDE DRY FOREST, 2. ROSEATE SPOONBILL, 3. OKAPI, 4. RHINO, 5. NAUTILUS, 6. PURPLE, 7. CUBEMystery Object: LEATHERBACK SEA TURTLE

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1. What biome in the Farish Hall of Texas Wildlife has a nine-banded armadillo and a horned lizard? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

2. What bird, featured in the Hamman Hall of Coastal Ecology, has a green odd-shaped bill and pink feathers? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

3. In our Frensley/Graham Hall of African Wildlife, what animal besides the zebra has striped legs? _ _ _ _ _

4. What is the shortened name of the gray African animal with a horn located above the fireplace in Cabinet of Curiosities? _ _ _ _ _

5. What is the name of the modern-day relative of the ammonite fossil that looks like this? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

6. What color is an amethyst geode? _ _ _ _ _ _

7. What shape does pyrite form? _ _ _ _

Where can you find scientists, spies, wizards, engineers, chefs, world travelers, and crime scene investigators? Why, Summer Camps at HMNS, of course! A summer at the Museum means you can be a coder one week and a veterinarian the next. At HMNS, you can dig into the earth, fly off to the stars, or trek through the rainforest.

Spend your summer at HMNS, where dinos emerge from clay and physics is as easy as blowing bubbles! Visit hmns.org/summercamp to start your summer explorations.

summer camps at HMNS

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Hidden in the picture above are some of the wonderful objects that you can see at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and several surprises, too. How many can you find?

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