Desert Museum Program to Bring Desert Animals to Blenman

NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Estella Zavala or Jennea Moore, 225-6437 
Posted on: January 21, 2004

Over 75 fourth-grade students will learn about the desert and its wildlife through a presentation of desert reptiles by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s “Desert Ark” program beginning at 11:05 a.m., tomorrow, Jan. 22 at Blenman Elementary School, 1695 N. Country Club.

Experts from the Desert Museum will bring snakes and lizards, a lizard skeleton, and a desert tortoise shell into a Blenman classroom to teach the students about desert wildlife and how reptiles are able to survive in the desert. The presentation will be held in four sessions—11 a.m., 11:55 a.m., 1:15 p.m. and 2:05 p.m.—to allow each fourth-grade class an individual, up-close view. 

“Desert Ark”, which meets the Arizona state science academic standards, was created in 1954, and reintroduced in 2002 for the Desert Museum’s 50th anniversary. The museum is currently offering the program free to schools on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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