The Ice Age and Its Mammoth Hunters

The ice age conjures up all kinds of vivid images of animals and people long extinct. What boy or girl hasn't imagined what it must have been like living during the last ice age.

Imagine thousands and thousands of years of snow compacted into giant sheets of ice; sheets of ice we now call glaciers.

Shadows of the Past

Enter Ooga the caveman. Using six students from your school, two overhead projectors and a 25' x 12' scrim, Jack creates a cave scene from long ago. Ooga, (one of your students) helps the audience understand through an exciting and colorful shadow play, what it must have been like hunting the woolly mammoth and living during the last ice age.

Ice Ages - Causes and Effects on Planet Earth

Our planet has been through many ice ages in the past and will continue through more in the future. But what causes an ice age to begin? .
Jack will explore the causes of an ice age by using special lighting effects which will help illustrate that the combination of the earth's orbit around the sun, its tilt, and wobble are responsible for plunging our planet into a deep freeze.

Models, Fossils and Artifacts

Probably no other animal typifies the ice age as does the woolly mammoth. Stories and a large model help Jack illustrate how this animal lived and what it looked like. A close relative of the woolly mammoth was the mastodon. Students compare actual molars from both the mastodon and mammoth. From this comparison, children begin to understand the detective work paleontologists use when studying animals of the past.

Jack's replica of a saber toothed cat skull recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits in California brings to life what this animal looked like and how it hunted.
The saber toothed cat was one of the only animals which hunted the woolly mammoth besides man. The saber toothed cat used its claws and sabers, people used their brains and stone age weapons. Jack will discuss and demonstrate how these tools and weapons were made and used.

Glaciers - Nature's Great Plow

Glaciers have been called Nature's great plow. It is hard to imagine how powerful and beautiful glaciers are until you have seen one. To give girls and boys a first hand experience of how glaciers move and actually alter the earth's surface, Jack has traveled to Canada and Alaska to study and photograph these sheets of ice.

All of this is brought to life through a magnificent slide presentation which will surely help students understand what it must have been like to be living during the last ice age.

This program has been performed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton on numerous occasions.