Pink Palace Museum
Our fourth day will be spent at the Pink Palace Museum located at 3050 Central Avenue in Memphis. The museum features a variety of temporary and permanent exhibits, a planetarium and an IMAX theater. The Pink Palace is open daily. Ticket prices vary depending on what exhibits the group plans to attend. For the purposes of our field trip, we will plan to visit all of the exhibits, the planetarium and the IMAX presentation. The cost for our tour will be $9.75 (school group admission price). We will also plan to eat lunch at the museum deli which will cost approximately $10. Because this "field trip" is in the planning stages only, it is not known which planetarium show and which IMAX presentation will be showing at the time of our actual field trip. I have, therefore chosen the shows that I feel would best meet the needs of my learners at this time. Hopefully at the time of the actual field trip there will be other programs that meet the needs of the learners just as well.
Geology Display
The Museum's permanent exhibits focus on regional, cultural and natural history. While we will take time to tour all the exhibits, our group will focus on the Geology and Oxbow Lake sections of the museum.
Coon Creek Fossil Display--Cretaceous Period
The Geology section features outstanding examples of rock and mineral specimens, a working seismograph, and fossils that trace the history of Earth from its formation 4.6 billion years ago to the last Ice Age. Because it is a site we will visit later in our tour, we will take special note of fossil specimens that were collected at Coon Creek, a fossil deposit from the Cretaceous Period which is located in McNairy County, Tennessee.
The Oxbow Lake section features exhibits depicting pictures, diagrams and explanations of the formation of an oxbow within a river and later an oxbow lake. This exhibit will reinforce previous learning as the oxbow is a feature we have already been seen on our trip, both as a model (Mud Island) and in person (New Madrid, MO).
The Oxbow Lake section features exhibits depicting pictures, diagrams and explanations of the formation of an oxbow within a river and later an oxbow lake. This exhibit will reinforce previous learning as the oxbow is a feature we have already been seen on our trip, both as a model (Mud Island) and in person (New Madrid, MO).
Stary Nights Logo
Our next stop at the Pink Palace will the the Sharpe Planetarium where we will attend the program entitled Starlit Nights. During the program, students will familiarize themselves with the summer sky including the following: summer constellations, how they were defined and the mythological features for which they were named. Follow this link for more information about the Summer Sky.