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Gore Elementary second-graders Debra Scoggins, left, Madison Walker, Ashley Smith, Jimmy Blackburn and Trenton Haworth examine a frog as they learn about life cycles.
Staff photo by Jennifer Lyles /


Holli Langlieb of Norman teaches second-graders Landon Chapman and Bryan Lane about life cycles of plants and animals Wednesday at Gore Elementary School.
Staff photo by Jennifer Lyles /


Published November 05, 2008 10:45 pm -

Program helps Gore students learn about life cycles
Teacher: I think they’ll be more interested in science

By Cathy Spaulding
Phoenix Staff Writer

GORE — While kids romp around the Gore Elementary School grounds, a whole other world goes through life cycles under their feet.

From seeds to sprouts to plants.

From eggs to tadpoles to frogs.

Students in kindergarten, first and second grades discovered such a world Wednesday when educators from the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History’s ExplorOlogy program came by. ExplorOlogy encourages students of all ages to “do science” by getting outside.

Museum Education Officer Holli Langlieb and educator Kristi Carlucci took each class on scientific expeditions in the school playground to look for frogs, spiders, insects and other life forms.

“There is so much out here growing,” Langlieb said, as she guided second-graders outside to see what they could find.

Almost immediately, students found a tiny frog swimming around in a puddle and yelled, “I found something.”

Langlieb held the frog, barely the size of her knuckle, by its tail and showed it around to the kids.

“It’s a leopard frog,” she said as she discouraged kids from touching it. She said amphibians breathe through their skin and that touching them would dry out their skin.

Kids also found part of a tree branch shrouded with silky webs.

Some students yelled out, “I found a snake hole,” then were told snakes cannot dig holes because they have no hands.

“Snakes use holes that others dig up,” Langlieb said.

While the second-graders looked for tiny animals, kindergartners wearing child-sized white “lab coats” looked for other creatures in another part of the yard.

Before the school-yard venture, Langlieb had second-graders put on aprons that labeled the different life stages of frogs, ants, deer and plants.



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