Our Taxidermy Class Field Trip

PSU Field Trip to look at skeletons:

An Orangotan skeleton:


An ant eater


The boys and the bear

Build a mason bee house

The next step towards sustainability
Build a mason bee house! Mason bees don't sting unless they are physically being squished. They pollinate more effectively than most bees, and they live in a solitary manner. With the directions on this page we can make bee houses for our gardens.

More information, good pictures
A wikibook on Mason Bees

Portable Bike Generator for Africa Youtube Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z35QOcQas4
And this instructable is AWESOME

Squirrel Taxidermy

Taxidermy class:

How to mount a squirrel
Skinning a squirrel

Legorobotics Competition

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://home.earthlink.net/~xaos69/NXT/AlphaRex_Avoid_Obstacle/graphics/AR_Obstacle_Avoid.JPG&imgrefurl=http://dabuel247.googlepages.com/nxtbasicsbyortop.org&usg=__5vn8OaSmKBYqyP9ugpydsngX3KI=&h=521&w=1111&sz=78&hl=en&start=12&tbnid=h1fTXn-kaI1CIM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dlegorobotics%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Lego Robotics competition is over, and sadly we did not win a thing. However if there is anything I want to adopt out of the First Lego League Value list is:

What you discover along the way is more important than if you win.

So we didn't take anything home. We competed well. And we were the only team that really took turns programming, building, etc.

Stationary Bikes converted to energy producing machines

Information about a fair where there was a show of 24 energy converting bikes on display.http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/08/09/bike-power-for-your-cell-phone/

Bike trainer (a stand which turns an outside bike into an inside bike): http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/bik/904133919.html

someone who might be willing to get rid of her stationary bike: live_in_portland_oregon@yahoo.com

A web page that has "22 steps to building your own generator" http://www.scienceshareware.com/build-your-own-generator-bike-trainer-stand.htm

A virtual gym you can join, with videos of bike rides you can watch.http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/davidbu/pedgen/green_virtual_gym.html

School activities with a pedal to power bike: http://www.scienceshareware.com/bicycle-generator-faq.htm#popular

How to video:
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/free-diy-byo-plans-for-pedal-power-bicycle-generator/2039154462

Leek Soup

I made leek soup! I cut open this leek and it was the most amazing wierd curled thing.... beautiful. I took a picture with my cell phone... so it doesn't exactly get the point across:



It turns out cooking for vegan friends isn't that painful:
the recipe
http://www.vegan-food.net/recipe/1401/Leek-and-Potato-Soup/