Grass seeds sprinkled on top later become a grassland. At home, students can observe and monitor the different cycles and changes in their mini-biospheres, or take them to school and share their knowledge with teachers and classmates. Watch the tide pouring in, bringing fresh food and air, and stirring the inhabitants of the big tidepool to fresh life and activity, while seagulls mew in the background. Experiment with a wide variety of media, including soft pastels, watercolors, colored pencils, and charcoal. I n many ways, life at night is not much different from life in the daytime.
Animals still hunt, eat, drink, build nests, and take care of their young.
However, in order to survive successfully at night, they must possess exceptionally sharp senses of hearing, sight, and touch. Through games and role playing, investigate the nocturnal adaptations of opossums, bats, raccoons, owls, skunks, frogs, and cats. Meet a live nocturnal animal from Coyote Point Museum. Find out where these animals live during the daytime, and how they hide from their daytime predators. Running through the middle of Tomales Bay is the San Andreas Fault, separating the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.